11.   In Colombo on Sunday, unidentified assailants shot and killed a former rebel guerrilla, Karaiwa Kandasamy, who had abandoned the insurgency and become a politician.

12.   Indonesian troops have been accused of committing human rights violations in their bid to crush pro-independence activists and rebel guerrillas in East Timor.

13.   It also said seven rebel guerrillas were killed and three were wounded while planting a land mine in western Chechnya.

14.   Japan is among the countries that have criticized Uruguay for apparently making a deal with the rebel guerrillas holding diplomatic hostages in the Peruvian capital of Lima.

15.   Japan is among the countries that criticized Uruguay for appearing to make a deal with the rebel guerrillas holding diplomatic hostages in the Peruvian capital of Lima.

16.   Meanwhile, fierce new fighting was reported in the jagged mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, where rebel guerrillas said they had seized a disputed district from Taliban troops.

17.   One rebel guerrilla was shot dead in a firefight in Grozny and nine others were killed elsewhere in Chechnya, it said.

18.   Russian forces and rebel guerrillas continue to clash nightly across Chechnya.

19.   Russian troops in Chechnya pushed toward mountain bases of rebel guerrillas Thursday and shelled separatist strongholds in the west of the breakaway republic, the military command said.

20.   Supadi denied news reports that claimed Indonesian troops had recently clashed with rebel guerrillas in the eastern part of Timor Island.