1.   Many innocent people were butchered under his regime.

2.   The refugees had fled their homes in the wake of three months of ethnic bloodletting in which up to one million people were butchered.

3.   Up to half a million people have been butchered since the country slipped back into its intermittent civil war two months ago.

4.   Up to half a million people have been butchered in ethnic bloodletting since April.