1.   An often brutal separatist insurgency has battled the government forces, and tens of thousands of lives have been lost.

2.   But the reports have aroused interest at a time of disputes, defections and realignments within the brutal communist insurgency.

3.   He has been named general secretary of the Democratic National Union Movement and he offers a new, pleasant public face for the brutal insurgency.

4.   There is nothing wrong with Washington helping an elected democratic government combat a brutal armed insurgency.

5.   They reconciled enemies to end brutal insurgencies in Mozambique and El Salvador.

6.   France has had long years of experience with Islamic militants from Algeria, wracked for nearly a decade by a brutal Islamic insurgency.