Pro-Government Militias

Pro-Government Militia Website

Group Purpose: protect state, national or religious institutions

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Syria Arab Nationalist Guard
Liwa Fatemiyoun
Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas Brigade
Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (The League of the Righteous)
Badr Organization
Dhu-al-Fiqar Battalion (Liwa Dhulfiqar)
Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (The Movement of God the Outstanding)
Jerusalem Brigade (al-Quds al-Filastini Brigade)
Lebanese Hezbollah
Liwa al-Imam al-Husayn (The Brigade of Imam Hasan)
Liwa al-Youm al-Mawud (Promised Day Brigades)
Sariyya al-Tali'a al-Khurasani (The Vanguards of Khurasani Unit)
Sayyid al-Shuhada Brigades (Master of Martyrs)
Haiti Civilian Militia
Capois La Mort
Chimeres / Popular Organisations
Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH) / Attaches / Zenglendons
Ghana Committee for the Defence of the Revolution
Association of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution
Civil Defense Organization
Panama Dignity Battalions
Israel Civil Guard
Village Leagues
Saudi Arabia Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice
Sri Lanka The Eagles of the Highlands
Home Guard/Civil Defence Force
People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE)
Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO)
Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP)
Madagascar Youth Awareness
Afghanistan Achekvai tribal militia
Ittehad Islami
Southern tribal militia
Village defence force
Sherzai
Hizb-e-Wahdat
Uzbek Junbesh-e-Milli
Jamaat Islami
Sudan Anyanya II
People's Police
Popular Defence Forces (PDF)
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army - Minni Minnawi Faction (SLM/A-MM)
South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF)
Fertit Militiamen (Peace Army)
Equatoria Defence Force (EDF/Khartoum)
Murahaleen
Mozambique People's militia and vigilance brigades
Naparama
Peru Colina Group
Comando Rodrigo Franco
Honduras Death Squads linked to Battalion 316
Myanmar (Burma) People's Militia
Swan Arr Shin (Masters of Force)
Union Solidarity and Development Association
Greece Gladio
Sweden Gladio
Denmark Gladio
Luxembourg Gladio
Spain Gladio
France Glaive Gladio
Liberia Jungle Fire Militia/Unit
Ethiopia Kebele Militia/ Urban Dwellers' association/ Peasants' associations/ neighbourhood committees
People's Militia/ Regional Militia/ Zonal Militia/ Territorial Peoples' Militia/ Territorial Militias/ Peasant Militia
Romania Patriotic Guard
Czechoslovakia People's Militia
Malaysia RELA
Thailand Volunteer Defence Corps (Or Sor)
Korea North Worker-Peasant Red Guards (WPRG)
Young Red Guards (YRG)
United Kingdom Gladio
Italy Gladio
Netherlands Gladio
Norway Gladio
Switzerland Gladio P26
Iraq Awakening groups / Sahwa
Peace Brigades / Mahdi Army
Popular Army / Jerusalem Army
Popular Mobilization Force / Hashd al-Shaabi
Saddam Kurdish Militia-Jash
Saddam's Lion Cubs
Badr Brigade
Peshmerga Kurdish Militia
India Home Guard
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)
Salwa Judum
Village Defence Committee Kashmir
Village Defence Force Punjab
Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon
Indonesia Kamra
Pam Swakarsa
Pemuda Panca Marga
Pemuda Pancasila
Tajikistan Popular Front
Pakistan Jamaat-i-Islami
MQM Haqiqi
Muttahida Qaumi Movement
United States State Defence Forces
Ukraine Dnipro-1
Guatemala Civilian Defence Patrols (informal)
Civilian Defence Patrols (semi-official)
Eye for an Eye
Secret Anti-Communist Army
The White Hand
Libya Al-Sa'iqa Brigade
Al-Zintan Revolutionaries' Military Council
Libya Revolutionaries' Operations Room (LROR)
Misratan Union of Revolutionaries (Misrata Brigades)
People's Cavalry Force
Raf'allah al-Sahati Brigade (Libyan Shield Force 3)
Revolutionary Committees
Supreme Security Committee (SSC)
The Libya Shield Force (National Shield)
Tripoli Military Council
Angola People's Vigilante Brigades
Executive Outcomes
Civil Defence Organization (ODC)
Argentina Triple A (Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance)
"Working Group" Death Squad
Austria Gladio
Bahrain National Guard
Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Ansar and VDP)
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL)
Islami Chhatra Shibir/ Jamaat-e-Islami
Awami Jubo League (AJL)
Bosnia-Herzegovina Mujahidin Unit
Burundi Imbonerakure
Congo Kinshasa Civil Guard
Georgia The Horsemen aka Mkhedrioni
National Guard
Iran Revolutionary Guard
Basij militia
Ansar-e Hezbollah
Komiteh
Kyrgyz Republic Patriots
Nicaragua Sandinista Popular/People's Militias
Rwanda Interahamwe Militia
Local Defence Force
Sierra Leone Executive Outcomes
The 'Bokkie' Crew
Civil Defense Forces/ Kamajors/ Kapras/ Donso/ Gbethis
Turkey Gladio
Uganda Special Force Vigilante
Venezuela Francisco Miranda Front
Bolivarian Militia
Ezequiel Zamora Military Front
Urban 'Chavista' Militias
Belgium Gladio
Brunei Gurkha Reserve Unit
Russia Cossacks
Nashi
Young Russia
Cambodia Provincial and Village Militia
Germany Schwert (Gladio)
Chile September 11 Command
Congo Brazzaville Aubevillois