Residents told local media the victims were members of local vigilante groups and civilians defending themselves from armed gangs notorious for kidnapping people for ransom.

What price female solidarity and empowerment, after all, if the weapon of actualization is an abusive system, one that invariably draws Santosh into its clubby, scornful, vigilante mindset?

So he infiltrated the militia movement on spec, as a freelance vigilante.

Years before the Civil War, a disorderly, sometimes bloodthirsty, vigilante local militia known as the “Monte boys” made the town a kind of sanctuary for hair-trigger Confederate sympathies and racist sentiments.

At the same time, HTS sought to reinforce its authority, explicitly vowing to punish anyone who defied its decree by engaging in vigilante revenge.