11.   The Legislature created the commission more than two years ago to investigate a massacre long obscured in history.

12.   The Polish authorities have begun investigating the massacre in one of many uncomfortable acts of discovery and contrition here.

13.   A military spokesman who identified himself only as Col. Aguilar declined to comment on the allegations, saying the massacre was being investigated by federal prosecutors.

14.   A U.N. team investigating reported massacres in eastern Congo has permission to head into the country to start work, a top Congolese official said Wednesday.

15.   A United Nations team will soon be allowed to investigate alleged massacres of Rwandan refugees in eastern Congo, the head of the world body said Monday.

16.   A United Nations team will soon be allowed to investigate alleged massacres of Rwandan refugees in eastern Congo, the U.N secretary-general said Monday.

17.   A U.N. team said Monday that it was was shocked by Zairian rebel obstacles that blocked its mission to investigate suspected massacres in eastern Zaire.

18.   An officer told a commission investigating the massacre that standing orders barred troops from shooting at Israeli civilians.

19.   Amnesty claimed Algerian police and security forces are often slow to respond to calls for help and often fail to investigate the massacres.

20.   Annan met Tuesday with the human rights team that had been sent to Congo, the former Zaire, to investigate reported massacres of Rwandan Hutu refugees.