(paramilitaries)
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A paramilitary organization is organized like an army and performs either civil or military functions in a country.
Searches by the army and paramilitary forces have continued today...
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Paramilitaries are members of a paramilitary organization.
Paramilitaries and army recruits patrolled the village...
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2.
A paramilitary organization is an illegal group that is organized like an army.
...a law which said that all paramilitary groups must be disarmed...
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Paramilitaries are members of an illegal paramilitary organization.
Loyalist paramilitaries were blamed for the shooting.
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