51. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, said on Radio Omdurman that government forces were in control. 52. Heavy fighting between Hezb-i-Islami guerrillas and government forces was reported in the western city of Herat in early October. 53. Most of the refugees had come from the Kurgan-Tyube region, the scene of bitter fighting between pro- and anti- government forces. 54. In the south, government forces bombarded the Holy Places of Najaf and Karbala, later attacking Shiites who had taken refuge in the marshes north of Basrah. 55. There was renewed fighting in Chad when government forces captured the oasis town of Fada from Libyan-backed rebels. 56. UP TO a million people have fled from northern Rwanda to escape fresh fighting between rebels and government forces, relief workers said yesterday. 57. Along the road on which government forces advanced to retake the city, there was almost no store which had not been cleaned out of all goods. 58. Although the rebels and government forces have rarely clashed in the past five years, tensions remain high in Chiapas. 59. Although the greater atrocities have been committed by the rebels, the government forces have not been blameless. 60. Although the Bosnian government forces outnumbered Serbs at Srebrenica, the Serbs had superior weapons. |