ABBREVIATIONS

ABSDF	All Burma Student’s Democratic Front
ACRM	Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement
AfDB	African Development Bank
AFPFL	Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League
AFRC	Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
AP	Popular Action
APC	All People’s Congress
APFP	Arakan People’s Freedom Party
APLP	Arakan People’s Liberation Party
APRA	American Popular Revolutionary Alliance
ASDT	Timorese Social Democratic Association
ASEAN	Association of Southeast Asian Nations
BUP	Bloku Unidade Popular
CNRT	National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction Party
CPB	Communist Party of Burma
DEA	Drug Enforcement Administration
DI	Darul Islam
DKBA	Democratic Karen Buddhist Army
DOM	Daerah Operasi Militer
DRC	Democratic Republic of Congo
ECOMOG	Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group
ECOWAS	Economic Community of West African States
ELN	National Liberation Army
EO	Executive Outcomes
EPRLF	Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front
FLEC	Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda
FRETILIN	Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor
FTO	foreign terrorist organization
GAM	Free Aceh Movement
HAM	Hak Asasi Manusia, “human rights”
IDP	internally displaced persons
IMF	International Monetary Fund
IPKF	Indian Peacekeeping Force
ISIL	Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant
ISIS	Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
JAT	Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid
JI	Jemaah Islamiya
JVP	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
KAF	Kawthoolei Armed Forces
KIA	Kachin Independence Army
KKY	Ka Kwe Ye, “home guards”
KLA	Kosovo Liberation Army
KMT	Chinese Kuomintang
KNDO	Karen National Defense Organization
KNLA	Karen National Liberation Army
KNU	Karen National Union
KNUP	Karen National United Party
KPLA	Karen People’s Liberation Army
KRF	Kokang Revolutionary Front
LJ	Laskar Jihad
LTTE	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam
MCDDI	Mouvement congolais pour la démocratie et le développement intégral
MIR	Movement of the Revolutionary Left
MIR-EM	MIR—The Militant
MIR-IV	MIR-IV Etapa
MIR-VR	MIR—Rebellious Voice
MIT	Mujahidine Indonesia Timur
MNR	National Revolutionary Movement
MP-GAM	Majles Pemeritahan GAM
MRTA	Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
MTA	Mong Tai Army
NAD	Nanggroë Aceh Darussalam
NCA	Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement
NDMC	National Diamond Mining Company
NGO	nongovernmental organization
NLD	National League for Democracy
NPFL	National Patriotic Front of Liberia
NPRC	National Provisional Ruling Council
NRC	National Reformation Council
OAU	Organization of African Unity
OPM	Organization for a Free Papua
PCT	Parti congolais du travail
PDF	People’s Democratic Front
PDP	Papuan Presidium Council
PKI	Indonesian Communist Party
PKK	Kurdistan Workers’ Party
PLP	Peoples Liberation Party
PMC	private military contractor
PRRI	Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia
PSI-MI	Revolutionary Socialist Party
PVO	People’s Volunteer Organization
RPI	Indonesian Federal Republic
RSM	Republic of South Moluccas
RSO	Rohingya Solidarity Organization
RUF	Revolutionary United Front
SCOUHP	Supreme Council of the United Hill Peoples
SCSL	Special Court for Sierra Leone
SLA	Sierra Leone Army
SLA	Sri Lankan Army
SLMM	Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
SLORC	State Law and Order Restoration Council
SLPP	Sierra Leone People’s Party
SLST	Sierra Leone Selection Trust
SNUF	Shan National United Front
SSA	Shan State Army
SSIA	Shan State Independence Army
SSNA	Shan State National Army
SUA	Shan United Army
SURA	Shan United Revolutionary Army
TELO	Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization
TNT	Tamil New Tigers
TULF	Tamil United Liberation Front
UCDP	Uppsala Conflict Data Program
UNAMSIL	United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
UNITA	National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UNMOSIL	United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone
UPADS	Pan-African Union for Social Democracy
UWSA	United Wa State Army