However, as nationalism and anger to the Iraqi invasion spread, some children ( along with old men ) volunteered for the Basij militia, often from areas destroyed by the Iraqi invasion.

During the Iran – Iraq War, the attacks conducted by Basij, the Iranian paramilitary volunteer militia, were considered to be human wave attacks.

In this they were somewhat similar to the Basij of Iran or Shabbiha militia of Syria.

His convicted assailant Saeed Asgar, a young man who was reported to be a member of the Basij militia, served only a small part of his 15-year jail sentence.

Early on during the protest, Amnesty International reported: " At least 200 demonstrators are reported to have gathered along Enghlab Avenue, around the gates of Tehran University, only to be confronted by a large presence of anti-riot police and plain-clothed security officials, possibly including members of the notorious Basij militia, who used baton charges and tear gas to disperse them.

After the announcement of the election results, Karroubi alleged that a network of mosques, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Basij militia forces had been illegally used to generate and mobilize support for Ahmadinejad.

Large numbers of protesters were arrested, and several were killed by the police and militia forces Basij.

It also controls the paramilitary Basij militia which has about 90, 000 active personnel, and in recent years has developed into a " multibillion-dollar business empire ," and is reportedly the " third-wealthiest organization in Iran " after the National Iranian Oil Company and the Imam Reza Endowment.

" The paramilitaries, thought to be Ansar-e-Hezbollah and possibly Basij began attacking students, kicking down doors and smashing through halls, grabbing female students by the hair and setting fire to rooms.

Ahmad shah Castle ( Currently used by the Women's Basij )

Khatami's support is said to have cut across regions and class lines with even some revolutionary guards, qom seminarians and Basij members voting for him.

The Iraqis concentrated well over 100, 000 troops from the battled-hardened Iraqi Republican Guard versus 15, 000 second-rate Iranian Basij soldiers.

" However, most ( but not all ) of those stories were really myths, propaganda, or embellished stories, and the child soldiers simply fought alongside their adult counterparts, often in Basij RPG or mine clearing teams.

These included European armies during World War I, Imperial Japanese Army and Soviet Red Army during World War II, Chinese People's Liberation Army during the Korean War, Vietnamese insurgents during the Indochina Wars, and Iranian Basij during the Iran – Iraq War.

Other problems include the issues with the rights of racial and religious minorities, influence and involvement of armed forces specially the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution and Basij in political activities, widespread corruption in the ruling elite, problems with security forces like police and militias like Ansar-e Hezbollah, and corruption in Judiciary.

After many days of protesting against the election results, the protests eventually turned violent as the Basij ( loyal police to the Islamic Republic ) started attacking and killing the protesters.

In 2006, a serious controversy resulting in physical tensions, occurred after Basij attempted to bury bodies of unknown Martyrs of the Iran – Iraq War at the universities ' Mosque court.

A small number of schoolchildren currently serve in the ranks of the Basij, an Iranian paramilitary force, according to CSUCS, generally above the age of 16.

Most other smaller groups were allies of either Basij or Anjoman.

Basij was a serious opposer of Mohammad Khatami, the president of the time.

However, the major clash between Anjoman and Basij occurred while the student movement was in silence in most other universities.

In 1907 Gardner returned to Britain for several months ' leave, spending time with his family and joining the Legion of Frontiersmen, a militia founded to repel the threat of German invasion.

The Whig canon and the neo-Harringtonians, John Milton, James Harrington and Sidney, Trenchard, Gordon and Bolingbroke, together with the Greek, Roman, and Renaissance masters of the tradition as far as Montesquieu, formed the authoritative literature of this culture ; and its values and concepts were those with which we have grown familiar: a civic and patriot ideal in which the personality was founded in property, perfected in citizenship but perpetually threatened by corruption ; government figuring paradoxically as the principal source of corruption and operating through such means as patronage, faction, standing armies ( opposed to the ideal of the militia ), established churches ( opposed to the Puritan and deist modes of American religion ) and the promotion of a monied interest — though the formulation of this last concept was somewhat hindered by the keen desire for readily available paper credit common in colonies of settlement.

1790 ), frontiersman and militia leader, who founded Oldtown and widened Nemacolin's Trail, which led west from Cumberland.

The military of Belize dates back to 1817, when the Prince Regent Royal Honduras Militia, a volunteer organization, was founded ; this militia became the Belize Volunteer Guard of the British Territorial Army.

Connellsville was officially founded as a township in 1793 then as a borough on March 1, 1806 by Zachariah Connell, a militia captain during the American Revolution.

In 1898, the Ninth Regiment, a state militia organization founded in 1879 and headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, volunteered to serve in the war with Spain.

It was founded by his son Alfred Beckley ( US Army general and Confederate militia commander, born in Washington, D. C .).

Loyalists founded the Orange Order in 1795 and served in the Yeomanry militia, which helped put down the rebellion.

German reinforcements under the command of Lt. Col. Heinrich von Breymann looked set to reverse the outcome, but were prevented by the arrival of Seth Warner ’ s Green Mountain Boys ; the Vermont militia founded by Ethan Allen.

The next year, he founded the collaborationist militia, Service d ' ordre légionnaire ( SOL ), that supported Philippe Pétain and Vichy France.

On 26 October 1946, KKE militia units attacked the police station in Litochoro, armed their forces and founded the Central Greece Command of the Democratic Army of Greece ( DSE ).

The Ulster Volunteers were a unionist militia founded in 1912 to block Home Rule for Ireland.

In the first half of the 14th century, the Marinids founded, alongside Fes, the town of Hims, which was initially allocated to the archers and the Christian militia.

Laskar Jihad ( Indonesian: Warriors of Jihad ), was an Islamist and anti-Christian Indonesian militia, which was founded and led by Jafar Umar Thalib.

Gore's administration built roads, reorganised the militia and founded schools.

In 1776, Colonel John Cadwalader was elected senior officer of the Philadelphia Associators, a volunteer militia founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1747.

The Tanzim militia, founded in 1995 to counter Palestinian Islamism, is widely considered to be an armed offshoot of Fatah with its own leadership structure.

Salem Chalabi was also appointed as firm's counsel to newly founded security firm Erinys, which " won a plum $ 80 million contract to guard Iraqi oil installations, employing members of Chalabi's private militia for the purpose.

The Samajwadi Krantikari Sena ( Socialist Revolutionary Army ) is a political front and militia group in the Indian state of Bihar founded in 1980 by Anand Mohan Singh The group fought against different groups belonging to lower castes.

Earthforce was founded as a peacekeeping militia with the majority of its members deployed to control terrorist aggression on the ground.

He founded a city in Utah and named it Stockton in honor of his California militia unit.

Prosperous, County Kildare, a recently founded ( 1780 ) cotton-manufacturing town, was attacked shortly after the outbreak of the 1798 rebellion at 2 a. m on 24 May 1798 by a rebel force about 60 strong which targeted the British garrison consisting of Cork militia and a detachment of a Welsh regiment, the " Ancient Britons ".

The Spanish organized the black volunteers into a militia ; their settlement at Fort Mose, founded in 1738, was the first legally sanctioned free black town in North America.

In the first decades of the eighteenth century, another group of Canarian emigrated to Santiago de los Caballeros, where he will have an exclusive isleño militia, and another in Frontera, where the group founded Banica and Hincha in 1691 and 1702 respectively.