41.   Burmese troops have broken a two-year truce with Karen insurgents, mounting an attack after religious factionalism had split rebel ranks.

42.   Civilians said the Tigers were preparing to meet a possible onslaught against Jaffna by recruiting hundreds of young boys and girls into rebel ranks.

43.   Military intelligence officials say there are dozens of children their age in the rebel ranks.

44.   Lubbers condemned Muslim extremists among the Chechen rebel ranks, such as Jordanian-born Khattab, describing them as terrorists.

45.   Many Zairean soliders have already crossed to rebel ranks he said.

46.   Not all the Tutsi want to go to RPF zones, however, for fear of being forcibly conscripted to rebel ranks.

47.   Since then, the LTTE has been calling teenage boys and girls to join rebel ranks to dislodge the security forces from Jaffna and re-establish a rebel administration.

48.   The militants accused two of the dailies of not publishing their statements, while the third was charged with dividing rebel ranks.

49.   The list of portfolios has not yet been officially announced, but those of defence, budget and foreign affairs could pass to ministers chosen from rebel ranks.