11.   Hundreds of Kurds were forced by local military officials to join a government militia fighting Kurdish guerrillas and were beaten if they refused, human rights activists reported Monday.

12.   Members of the new government militia had been sent to the scene, Dayah said.

13.   Two of the victims were in a government militia.

14.   He claimed that a thousand troops from the government volunteer militia had defected to the rebel side.

15.   It also noted cases of forced displacement, arbitrary detentions, torture and mistreatment, as well as the kidnapping of women and children by government militias.

16.   A simple house-keeper, he lied to the government militias as they tracked down their prey, Tutsis or opposition Hutus.

17.   The report came after Justice Minister Alphonse-Marie Nkubito confirmed last week that some former government militias are operating in the country.

18.   They were asked by the RPF to disarm the government militias but did nothing until the situation exploded in April, the president charged.

19.   Most of the victims were Tutusi killed by government militias and death squads.

20.   Police and government militia have been assigned to guard some of the prominent businessmen in the region to prevent possible kidnap attempts.