Samuel Hinga Norman, who was Sierra Leone's minister of Defense and former leader of the militant group the Civil Defense Forces ( commonly known as the Kamajors ).

* Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leone defense minister from 1998 to 2002 and former head of the militant group the Civil Defense Forces ( commonly known as the Kamajors ).

The Kamajors are a group of traditional hunters from the south and east of the country.

The Kamajors are a group of traditional hunters from the Mende ethnic group in the south and east of Sierra Leone ( mostly from the Bo district ).

He was the founder and leader of the traditional Civil Defence Forces, commonly known as the Kamajors.

He also served as the national director of the CDF, and tapped the traditional groups called the Kamajors to serve as a militia.

The dissidents were thought to be mostly Mandinka and Krahn fighters of the former ULIMO-J and ULIMO-K. Also important in forming LURD was an alliance, brokered by ECOMOG-SL Nigerian chief General Maxwell Khobe, between Liberian dissidents and the Sierra Leonean Kamajors hunter militia, including chiefs Sam Hinga-Norman and Eddie Massally.

In recent years, the Kamajors have been moved from their native areas and

Once separated from the influence of the ‘ paramount ’ chiefs, the Kamajors have become undisciplined and cases of rape have become more common.

Several rationales have been suggested for the coup, including: anger at the government for not implementing the November 1996 peace agreement with the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), perceived ethnic discrimination in the appointment of the highest ranks of government, perceived financial neglect of the armed forces, and favoritism for the ethnic Mende Kamajors led by Samuel Hinga Norman.

Kabbah's government was revived nine months later as the military-rebel junta was removed by troops of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) under the command of the Nigerian led ECOMOG ( ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group ) and loyal civil and military defence forces, notably the Kamajors led by Samuel Hinga Norman.

The Kamajors fought under the supported the government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah against the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), which was led by Foday Sankoh.

On the other hand, the Kamajors have been accused of pillaging, terrorizing, and killing civilians in Sierra Leone, as well as employing soldiers under the age of 15.

The Kamajors integrated themselves into the ECOMOG ( a Nigeria led force ) counteroffensive to reinstate Kabbah in 1998 after Freetown was taken by the RUF ( backed by Charles Taylor and led by Foday Sankoh ) in combination with the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, led by Johnny Paul Koroma.

The Kamajors were a part of the ECOMOG ( a Nigeria led force ) counteroffensive to reinstate Kabbah in 1998.

Although some point to diamond fields ( blood diamonds ) as the real motivating factor of the Kamajors, they played a major role in the march toward Sierra Leonean stability.

The Kamajors are known for their use of ritualistic magic such as chanting and applying the unit leader's saliva to the foreheads of the soldiers and amulets.

Koroma cited corruption, erosion of state sovereignty, over-dependence on foreign nations, and government failure to address tensions between the SLA and government-backed tribal militia movements ( in particular the Kamajors ) as the pretext for the coup.

The Kamajors were not a professionally trained army.

The Kamajors too have been accused of pillaging, terrorizing, and killing.

The Kamajors again served with ECOMOG and UN peacekeepers in trying to secure stability.

A truly " grassroots " military force, the Kamajors are rumored to possess magical powers such as the ability to dodge bullets and to disappear.

The Kamajors used mainly older, single-shot rifles.

The Kamajors believe that power and potency as a warrior is dependent on sexual abstinence.

Design elements closely rooted to traditional forms but wearing a definite contemporary label keynote Drexel's fall 1961 group, Composite.

All of the bishops were then asked to sign their assent to the Tome, but a group of thirteen Egyptians refused, saying that they would assent to " the traditional faith.

Miyake is a traditional Japanese taiko drumming style that has become known through works of a taiko group Kodo, and is formally called " Miyake-jima Kamitsuki Mikoshi Daiko ".

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Aside from the traditional usage, the term empire can be used in an extended sense to denote a large-scale business enterprise ( e. g. a transnational corporation ), or a political organisation of either national -, regional-or city scale, controlled either by a person ( a political boss ) or a group authority ( political bosses ).

Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.

Conjugation is also the traditional name of a group of verbs that share a similar conjugation pattern in a particular language ( a verb class ).

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

Wade Schuman, founder of the group Hazmat Modine, has fused overblowing with older traditional styles and middle European harmonies.

On the other hand, similar to the use of slang in traditional face-to-face speech or written language, slang on the Internet is often a way of indicating group membership.

The traditional language of the Inuit is a system of closely interrelated dialects that are not readily comprehensible from one end of the Inuit world to the other, and some people do not think of it as a single language but rather as a group of languages.

Since the emergence of the post-1943 state and after the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate, national policy has been determined largely by a relatively restricted group of traditional regional and sectarian leaders.

They excluded logic and added to the traditional Latin grammar and rhetoric not only history, Greek, and moral philosophy ( ethics ), but made poetry, once a sequel of grammar and rhetoric, the most important member of the whole group.

A more traditional example is interpreting the axioms of a particular algebraic system such as a group, in the context of a model provided by a specific group.

The adoption of national identity in terms of historical development, has commonly been the result of a response by an influential group or groups that is unsatisfied with traditional identities due to inconsistency between their defined social order and the experience of that social order by its members, resulting in a situation of anomie that nationalists seek to resolve.

This group moved easily between Welsh and English societies and languages, occupying important offices for the Marcher Lords while maintaining their position as uchelwyr — nobles descended from the pre-conquest Welsh royal dynasties — in traditional Welsh society.

In reaction to the emergence of Reform Judaism, a group of traditionalist German Jews emerged who supported some of the values of the Haskalah but who wanted to defend a conservative, traditional interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.

Hence, the traditional platyhelminth subgroup " Turbellaria " is now regarded as paraphyletic, since it excludes the wholly parasitic groups, although these are descended from one group of " turbellarians ".

The traditional class Reptile | Reptilia ( green field ) is a paraphyletic group comprising all amniote s other than the mammals and birds. Paraphyly is a characteristic of some groups of organisms and families of languages.

However, as reptiles in the traditional sense are the ancestors of both birds and mammals, many taxonomists have more recently adopted a cladistic approach, preferring to group animals based exclusively on shared ancestry rather than on shared features ; this orientation has led some to abandon reptiles as a systematic unit or redefine the reptiles in a manner that includes birds.

The traditional class Reptilia ( green field ) is a paraphyly | paraphyletic group comprising all non-avian and non-mammalian amniotes. In 1956 D. M. S.

Modesto and Anderson reviewed the many previous definitions, and proposed a modified definition which they intended to retain most traditional content of the group while keeping it stable and monophyletic.

This is different from traditional insurance, in that no premium is exchanged between members of the group up front, but instead losses are assessed to all members of the group.