Definition of Former armed forces

1. Noun. A terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again. "In 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Former Armed Forces

Foreign Intelligence Service
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Foreign Service
Forel's decussation
Forest of Dean
Forester
Forestiera neomexicana
Forficula auricularia
Forficulidae
Forli
Forlivian
Forlì-Cesena
Formad's kidney
Formentera
Former Armed Forces
Formica
Formica fusca
Formica rufa
Formica sanguinea
Formicariidae
Formicarius
Formicidae
Formosa
Formosan
Formosans
Formula 1
Formula One
Fornax
Fornicalia

Literary usage of Former armed forces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-free World by International Campaign to Ban Land Mines, International Campaign to Ban Landmines (1999)
"In 1994 Finland got probably more than 100000 TM-62 antitank mines from the stockpiles of the former Armed Forces of East Germany; 3. ..."

2. China in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Economy, and Society by Fumio Itoh (1997)
"... memorandum dated 6 March 1995 by the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff, Admiral Lanxade, and translated into diplomatic language by Foreign Affairs, ..."

3. The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo by Joanne Csete, Juliane Kippenberg, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2002)
"A: Interahamwe, former armed forces (EX-FAR)." It also lists the Ugandan rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) which are fighting the Ugandan government. ..."

4. Conspicuous Destruction: War, Famine, and the Reform Process in Mozambique by Human Rights Watch (Organization). (1992)
"Among the detainees were former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Col. Gen. Sebastiao Mab<>tc, a hero of the independence war against Portugal, ..."

5. Landmine Monitor Report 2002: Toward a Mine-free World by International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Human Rights Watch (Organization). (2002)
"The Article 7 Report does not provide additional information on electrical towers in the Paramonga area of Lima, or areas in the former Armed Forces ..."

6. Human Rights Watch World Report 1997 by Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch Staff (1996)
"We also protested the decision to appoint former Armed Forces Chief Luis Alonso Discua as the government's alternate delegate to the UN Discua had been ..."

7. Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U. S. Intelligenceby Harold Brown, Warren B. Rudman by Harold Brown, Warren B. Rudman (1996)
"... NSA assumed the responsibilities of the former Armed Forces Security Agency as well as the signals intelligence responsibilities of the CIA and other ..."

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