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There were many young men with kalashnikovs on their backs; different armed "self-defence" groups and Liberian mercenaries, who had been fighting on both sides during the conflict.
Caroline Gluck: Travelling down Ivory Coast's "road of death" Caroline Gluck 2011
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Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images National Resistance Army girl soldiers posed with their kalashnikovs on Jan. 26, 1986, in Kampala.
A Return to Tumult 2011
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Yet the Maoists rule with impunity, kalashnikovs in hand.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration? 2008
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And will realise that contrary to his reactionary reaction Hamas includes both desperate freedom fighters on armalites and kalashnikovs and IEDs and the majority democratic political party in the parliament of Palestine.
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What follows is not just a series of cool fights and dramatic character portraits of the men behind the stolen kalashnikovs, although that is in there, it is a gripping group of vignettes that painfully portray the moral bankruptcy that has taken hold at all levels.
Mike suspects GOMORRAH holds hidden riches… | Obsessed With Film 2008
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Greeted by men armed with machetes and kalashnikovs, Heavey saw they had wandered into a smugglers 'camp.
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Greeted by men armed with machetes and kalashnikovs, Heavey saw they had wandered into a smugglers 'camp.
September 2005 2005
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Policemen wielding kalashnikovs block a major road and demand money from motorists.
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Uniformed men with kalashnikovs are thoroughly checking all vehicles entering Tripoli.
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Old clichés of peasants asleep by cacti long ago replaced by capos with gold plated kalashnikovs Bestsellers from the Guardian shop
The Guardian World News Jason Burke 2011
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