21.   Tutsi extremists consider surviving witnesses of the genocide a threat to be eliminated in advance of the trials of alleged mass murderers expected to start in coming months.

22.   On Tuesday a lawyer acting for the only alleged murderer, Ali Vakili Rad, demanded his acquittal.

23.   Suspected Moslem militants shot dead a police informer in a revenge killing in southern Egypt after he helped track down an alleged murderer, security sources said Wednesday.

24.   The alleged murderer, identified as Ashraf Khan, is in detention.

25.   The officials described his alleged murderers as drug addicts, who killed Takashi to loot his apartment in order to buy heroin.