Dressed in a tracksuit, he gives the air of a local warlord.

穿着田径装，他颇有当地军阀的气质。

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He had been a dictator and a warlord who had oppressed and degraded the people of the South.

他既是个独裁者，又是位军阀式领袖，压迫侮辱南方人。

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"Every warlord has his security company," is the way one executive explained it to me.

“每个军阀都有自己的安保公司”，一名安保公司的主管如是向我解释。

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So like the eastern states, you have a powerful ruler who is a warlord.

就像东方国家一样,有一个热爱战争的强权统治者

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Think of that. The warlord is preoccupied with questions of honor and loyalty.

想想这层意涵,军阀最关心的问题是荣誉与忠诚。

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What had raised the stakes for Mr Rowland, his new best friend the warlord, and the warlord's fellow rebels was the discovery of oil in the south of the country.

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In Sangin, power after 2001 was in the hands a warlord from the Alikozai tribe named Dad Mohammad Khan and his family, allies of the Akhundzadas.

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But it's the children who have transformed the big mustachioed Joseph Kony from a has-been Ugandan warlord into the second-coming of Adolf Hitler (whose little mustachioed face is, of course, also featured in the video).

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