Pro-Government Militias

Pro-Government Militia Website

Group Purpose: self-defense and security

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Syria Ba'th Battalions
Sootoro (Syriac Protection Office)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command
Fatah al-Intifada
Jerusalem Brigade (al-Quds al-Filastini Brigade)
National Defence Force
Popular Committees (al-Lijan al-Sha'biyah)
Syrian Resistance (Muqawama Suriya)
Afghanistan Ismaili militia
Village defence force
Anti-Taliban Militia
Forces of Ismael Khan / Herat Militia
Hizb-e-Wahdat
Mohammed Qasim Fahim (informal)
Uzbek Junbesh-e-Milli
Mohammed Qasim Fahim (semi-official)
Achekvai tribal militia
Kandak Amniate Uruzgan
Thailand Rangers (Thahan Phran)
Village Defence Volunteers (Chor Ror Bor)
Village Protection Volunteers (Or Ror Bor)
Volunteer Defence Corps (Or Sor)
Task Force 80
Philippines Civilian Home Defence Force (CHDF)
Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGU)
Nakasaka
Peru Rondas Campesinas (Semi-Official)
Colina Group
Rondas Campesinas (Informal)
Nigeria Abia State Vigilante Group / Bakassi Boys
Anambra State Vigilante Group / Onitsha Vigilante Group / Bakassi Boys
Benue State Vigilante Group
Civilian Joint Task Force (Civilian JTF)
Edo State Vigilante
Enugu State Neighbourhood Watch
Lagos State Vigilante Group
Neighbourhood Watch / Vigilante Groups
Neighbourhood Watch Organisation (NOW) of Adamawa State
Operation Vigilance
Plateau State Vigilante Group
Zamfara State Vigilante (umbrella org. for various Sharia enforcement vigilantes)
Liberia Anti-Terrorist Unit
National Patriotic Front of Liberia
United Liberation Movement for Democracy - Johnson (ULIMO-J)
United Liberation Movement for Democracy - Kromah (ULIMO-K)
Sudan Anyanya II
Arab Pastoralists
People's Police
South Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SSLM/A)
Rapid Support Force (RSF)
South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF)
Murle Forces
Mundari Commandos
Equatoria Defence Force (EDF/Khartoum)
Toposa Tribesmen
Sri Lanka Civil Defence Committees (CDC)
Home Guard/Civil Defence Force
Karuna Group/Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP)
Mozambique People's militia and vigilance brigades
El Salvador Civil Defence Patrols
Myanmar (Burma) People's Militia
Greece Gladio
Sweden Gladio
Denmark Gladio
Luxembourg Gladio
Spain Gladio
France Glaive Gladio
Ethiopia People's Militia/ Regional Militia/ Zonal Militia/ Territorial Peoples' Militia/ Territorial Militias/ Peasant Militia
Tigray Militia
Yemen (formerly: Yemen Arab Republic) Popular Committees
Malaysia RELA
Mexico Rural Defense Corps (autodefensas)
Israel Settlers
Village Leagues
Korea North Worker-Peasant Red Guards (WPRG)
Young Red Guards (YRG)
Somalia Ahlu Sunnah wal Jama'a
Raskamboni / Raas Kaambooni
United Kingdom Gladio
Italy Gladio
Netherlands Gladio
Norway Gladio
Switzerland Gladio P26
Lithuania Lithuanian Riflemen's Union
India Special Police Officers (SPO)
Salwa Judum
Village Defence Committee Himachal
Village Defence Committee Kashmir
Village Defence Force Punjab
Iraq Awakening groups / Sahwa
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Peshmerga Kurdish Militia
Guyana Phantom Death Squad
Egypt Popular Committees
Solomon Islands Malaita Eagle Force
Indonesia Banser
Hansip/Linmas
Kamra
Pam Swakarsa
Aitarak
Pakistan Khasadar
Levies
Muttahida Qaumi Movement
United States State Defence Forces
Nepal Anti-Maoist vigilantes
Youth Force
Ukraine Battalion Ivano-Frankivsk
Libya The Libya Shield Force (National Shield)
Tripoli Revolutionary Council
Algeria Communal Guards
Municipal Guards
Groups for Legitimate Defense (aka Patriots)
Angola People's Vigilante Brigades
Civil Defence Organization (ODC)
Austria Gladio
Bahrain National Guard
Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Ansar and VDP)
Bosnia-Herzegovina Patriotic League
Burundi Guardians of Peace
Congo Kinshasa Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
Civil Guard
Georgia White Legion
Forest Brothers
The Hunters
Kenya Chinkororo
Kisungusungu
Kyrgyz Republic Patriots
Malawi Young Pioneers (Malawi Congress Party)
Youth League (Malawi Congress Party)
Nicaragua Sandinista Popular/People's Militias
Sierra Leone Kamajors
Civil Defense Forces/ Kamajors/ Kapras/ Donso/ Gbethis
Turkey Village Guards
Gladio
Grey Wolves
Uganda Protection Vigilantes
Local Defence Units
Karamojong Vigilante
Venezuela Bolivarian Militia
Peasant/Campesino Militia
Zimbabwe People's Militia
Belgium Gladio
Rwanda Local Defence Force
Russia Mestnyye
Volunteer People's Militia
Cambodia Provincial and Village Militia
Germany Schwert (Gladio)
Chile Colonia Dignidad
Cote d'Ivoire Front for the Liberation of the Greater West
Young Patriots
Tanzania Sungu Sungu
Colombia Death To Kidnappers (Muerte a Secuestradores)
Paramilitary Self Defence Groups/Death Squads (semi-official)
Paramilitary Self Defense Groups/Death Squards (informal)
Rural Defence Groups / Convivir
Soldiers from my Town
The United Self Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC)
Mali Mouvement patriotique malien Ghanda Koy aka Ganda Koy