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vigilante [,vidʒi'lænti]

n. 警戒会会员

vigilante

[ noun ]
member of a vigilance committee
<noun.person>

In some parts of Panama City, workers formed vigilante groups to guard stores and other places of employment.
Volunteers for the Units are to phase out vigilante groups and the Civilian Home Defense Force, both of which have been accused of widespread human rights abuses in the fight against the rebels.
Human rights groups say the vigilante groups indiscriminately kill civilians who associate with the Liberation Front and burn their bodies beyond recognition.
Worried Chinese-Filipino traders are talking of defensive measures, including plans to set up vigilante groups manned by foreign mercenaries, and some families are reportedly packing up and taking their assets elsewhere.
In a stinging commentary in August, the country's bishops appealed for "more discipline" in the military and for the disbanding of vigilante groups established by the armed forces to help fight communist guerrillas.
And in the 1986 Batman graphic novel collection "The Dark Knight Returns," the Caped Crusader is a troubled vigilante.
The national leader of the Methodist Church, the Rev. Stanley Magoba, issued a statement today saying church leaders "noted with anger and concern the vigilante actions" of Mandela United.
The vigilante spokesman recently was elected an alternate federal senator.
Dr. Maria Serena I. Diokno, head of the National Movement to Disband Vigilantes, said these people and farmers have little chance for judicial recourse if they are harmed because vigilante groups enjoy government sanction.
Residents in many neighborhoods organized vigilante groups to ward off the looters of homes and businesses who roamed the streets at will.
To say British shopkeepers are being forced to adopt vigilante tactics is a bit much, and may put off shoppers.' One large store chain suggests Mr Kalms has 'overstated the case'.
Critics claim the militias and vigilante groups are virtual "death squads." Augusto Sanchez, a human rights lawyer and former Aquino labor minister, said police and soldiers go after anyone with liberal or leftist views.
In several neighborhoods, residents set up local vigilante groups on Sunday after receiving anonymous telephone threats that Mandale members would raid their houses.
Two detectives distributing a sketch of a subway vigilante known as the "Remember Me?" gunman couldn't believe their eyes _ or their luck _ when they found themselves face-to-face with the suspect.
The jury did not think Mr. Goetz was acting as a vigilante.
The Ulster Defense Association, with an estimated 10,000 members, was established in 1971 as an umbrella group for Protestant vigilante groups.
A gunman, branded by the mayor as the "arch-typical vigilante," is being sought by authorities for allegedly shooting at six young people in a subway station in revenge for them robbing him a day earlier.
Opposition politicians and human rights groups have accused military and pro-government vigilante groups of killing hundreds of civilians suspected of sympathizing with the Sinhalese radicals.
Vlok said in a statement that during the shooting, the suspect claimed he was the leader of a shadowy right-wing vigilante group called the White Wolves.
The Aquino government has sanctioned formation of more than 200 civilian anti-Communist vigilante groups, some of which have forged alliances with armed religious fanatics, or Tadtads.
In telephone interviews, they said they believed the victims were Sinhalese radicals killed by pro-government vigilante groups. Military officials in Colombo confirmed the bodies were found but did not say who the dead were or who killed them.
The government depicted the street committees as vigilante groups led by radicals, but proponents said the committees helped reduce crime as part of an effort to mobilize anti-apartheid activity on a local level.
The government denies it, but senior officials privately admit killings by pro-government vigilante groups.
Next week's installment concerns a young ballerina turned subway vigilante.
Opposition politicians and human rights activists have blamed government forces or pro-government vigilante groups for similar killings.
The report said the lack of public confidence in the ability of police to deal with the growing crime rate stimulates the growth of death squads and vigilante groups known as "justiceiros," Portuguese for justice-makers.
Also Friday, Israeli media reported the army plans to restrict the movement of settlers in the West Bank suspected of taking part in vigilante raids on Palestinian communities.
Others called him a cold-hearted vigilante and racist.
Guatemala's young democracy is on a rough road as it heads toward a presidential campaign, with strikes, coup jitters, businesses balking at higher taxes and rebel and vigilante groups on the prowl.
"Stop it!" people shouted, rushing to pull the vigilante back. Another self-appointed cop fired his pistol into the air.

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