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A group of militiamen who have taken over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon have been joined by the notable Bundy family, a group of anti-government ranchers headed by a racist patriarch. The group broke into the federal Malhuer Wildlife Refuge after a protest in Harney County, Oregon, on Saturday, following the conviction of two…
Tensions over the treatment of two cattle ranchers in Oregon escalated into an armed standoff over the weekend when members of a rightwing militia occupied a wildlife refuge and threatened a confrontation with federal authorities. Ammon Bundy, the son of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was at the heart of a notorious showdown over…
Anealla Safdar | 03 Jan 2016 08:54 GMT | US & Canada, US, Crime 3222 19 Follow Anealla Safdar on Twitter: @anealla Source: Al Jazeera [<a href=”//storify.com/AJEStorify/oregon” target=”_blank”>View the story “#OregonUnderAttack” on Storify</a>] Follow Anealla Safdar on Twitter: @anealla [&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”//storify.com/AJEStorify/oregon” target=”_blank”&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;View the story “#OregonUnderAttack” on Storify&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;] Source: Al Jazeera Double standards cited amid armed protest in Oregon – Al Jazeera English.