Pro-Government Militias

Pro-Government Militia Website

Groups with Relationship to Government: semi-official (type 2)

CountryGroups
Brunei Gurkha Reserve Unit
Hungary Workers' Militia
Czechoslovakia People's Militia
Ghana Battalion 64
Association of Committees for the Defence of the Revolution
Committee for the Defence of the Revolution
Civil Defense Organization
Progressive Voluntary Organization
Ghana Private Road Transport Union
SEMACO
Patriots Club of Ghana
Angola People's Defence Organization (ODP)
People's Vigilante Brigades
Executive Outcomes
Civil Defence Organization (ODC)
Libya Revolutionary Guards
Revolutionary Committees
Amazonian Guard
Al-Qa'qa' Brigade
Tripoli Military Council
Special Deterrent Force (Anti-crime unit)
17 February Martyrs Brigade
Raf'allah al-Sahati Brigade (Libyan Shield Force 3)
Libya Revolutionaries' Operations Room (LROR)
The Libya Shield Force (National Shield)
Supreme Security Committee (SSC)
Algeria Groups for Legitimate Defense (aka Patriots)
Communal Guards
Municipal Guards
Mozambique People's militia and vigilance brigades
Sierra Leone Executive Outcomes
Civil Defense Forces/ Kamajors/ Kapras/ Donso/ Gbethis
Malawi Young Pioneers (Malawi Congress Party)
Zimbabwe People's Militia
Youth Service Brigade/Green Bombers
Lithuania Lithuanian Riflemen's Union
Nigeria Anambra State Vigilante Group / Onitsha Vigilante Group / Bakassi Boys
Neighbourhood Watch / Vigilante Groups
Operation Vigilance
Zamfara State Vigilante (umbrella org. for various Sharia enforcement vigilantes)
Edo State Vigilante
Abia State Vigilante Group / Bakassi Boys
Anambra State Vigilante Service (AVS) aka Scorpion Squad
Bayelsa Volunteers / Bayelsa Volunteers Anti-Sea Piracy Squad
Benue State Vigilante Group
Neighbourhood Watch Organisation (NOW) of Adamawa State
Enugu State Neighbourhood Watch
Lagos State Vigilante Group
Oyo State Neighbourhood Watch
Plateau State Vigilante Group
Civilian Joint Task Force (Civilian JTF)
Russia Volunteer People's Militia
Cossacks
Mestnyye
Nashi
Romania Patriotic Guard
Papua New Guinea Sandline International
Malaysia RELA
Myanmar (Burma) People's Militia
Union Solidarity and Development Association
Swan Arr Shin (Masters of Force)
Ka Kwe Ye-kky
Nepal Anti-Maoist vigilantes
Young Communist League
Philippines Civilian Home Defence Force (CHDF)
Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Units (CAFGU)
Manila Crusaders for Peace and Democracy
Civilian Volunteer Organisation (CVO)
Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Ansar and VDP)
Pakistan Muttahida Qaumi Movement
Community Police
Khasadar
Levies
Ethiopia People's Militia/ Regional Militia/ Zonal Militia/ Territorial Peoples' Militia/ Territorial Militias/ Peasant Militia
Tigray Militia
Kebele Militia/ Urban Dwellers' association/ Peasants' associations/ neighbourhood committees
Uganda Rhino Defence Force
Arrow militia
Local Defence Units
Amuka
Afghanistan Village defence force
Jamaat Islami
Southern tribal militia
Anti-Taliban Militia
Forces of Ismael Khan / Herat Militia
Kandak Amniate Uruzgan
Mohammed Qasim Fahim (semi-official)
Estonia Kaitseliit (Defence League)
India Village Defence Force Punjab
Village Defence Committee Kashmir
Village Defence Committee Himachal
Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon
Home Guard
Salwa Judum
Special Police Officers (SPO)
China Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)
Turkey Village Guards
Iraq Popular Army / Jerusalem Army
Fedayeen Saddam
Peshmerga Kurdish Militia
Saddam's Lion Cubs
Popular Mobilization Force / Hashd al-Shaabi
Cambodia Provincial and Village Militia
Bolivia Special Security Service
Iran Revolutionary Guard
Basij militia
Komiteh
Panama Dignity Battalions
Saudi Arabia Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice
Thailand Village Defence Volunteers (Chor Ror Bor)
Task Force 80
Rangers (Thahan Phran)
Village Protection Volunteers (Or Ror Bor)
Volunteer Defence Corps (Or Sor)
Sudan Popular Defence Forces (PDF)
People's Police
South Sudan Defence Forces (SSDF)
Rapid Support Force (RSF)
Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army - United Lam Akol (SPLM/A-United Lam Akol)
Sri Lanka Home Guard/Civil Defence Force
Civil Defence Committees (CDC)
Guatemala Civilian Defence Patrols (semi-official)
Israel Settlers
Civil Guard
Village Leagues
Rwanda Local Defence Force
Indonesia Ratih - rakyat terlatih
Kamra
Wanra
Makikit
Pemuda Pancasila
Team Alfa
Team Sera
Sakunar
Team Saka
Sharia Police / Wilayatul Hisbah
Aitarak
Hansip/Linmas
Macedonia Macedonian Lions
El Salvador Civil Defence Patrols
Nicaragua Sandinista Popular/People's Militias
Haiti Tonton Macoutes Semi-official PGM / Volunteers for National Security
Colombia Rural Defence Groups / Convivir
Soldiers from my Town
United States State Defence Forces
Congo Kinshasa Special Presidential Division
Civil Guard
Venezuela Ezequiel Zamora Military Front
Bolivarian Militia
Peasant/Campesino Militia
Liberia Vigilante Groups
Tunisia League/Committees for the Protection of the Revolution (LPR)
Bahrain National Guard
Fiji Homelink Security
Ukraine Crimean Cossacks
International Police Corporation for Public Security (IPCPS)
Aidar Battalion
Dnipro-1
Azov
Shakhtarsk
Battalion Ivano-Frankivsk
Ukrayina battalion
Myrotvorets (Peacemaker)
Peru Rondas Campesinas (Semi-Official)
Korea North Worker-Peasant Red Guards (WPRG)
Young Red Guards (YRG)
Syria National Defence Force
Syrian Social Nationalist Party
Mexico Rural Defense Corps (autodefensas)
Cote d'Ivoire Southwestern Militias
South Africa Red Ants/ Wozani Security
Cameroon President Biya's Youth (PRESBY)
Azerbaijan Emergencies Ministry paramilitary unit
United Arab Emirates Mercenary Army
Kyrgyz Republic Patriots
Turkmenistan Border Vigilantes