21.   Late last year, the same area was haunted by a rash of politically motivated killings that forced an elementary school to close and chased dozens of families out.

22.   Markovic and Crni were detained in late February for the alleged organization of politically motivated killings and abductions of anti-Milosevic activists.

23.   Milosevic is suspected of involvement in the atrocities arising from four Balkan wars he set off, of ordering politically motivated killings and stealing millions in state funds.

24.   One Sikh man was shot dead in Phoenix, Arizona in an apparent racially motivated killing.

25.   Police typically round up dozens of suspected militants in the wake of religiously motivated killings.

26.   Ranariddh and scores of his supporters stayed away or fled the country to avoid a wave of politically motivated killings.

27.   Religiously motivated killings are rising in Pakistan and the government is persecuting opposition politicians, a human rights group said Saturday.

28.   Religiously motivated killings have escalated in the first three months of this year as militant Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Pakistan target each other.

29.   The group also cited dozens of other politically motivated killings in recent months.

30.   The group has been linked to dozens of religiously motivated killings in recent months.