1. Nonetheless, interviews with a dozen inhabitants of the chicken farm revealed no readiness to return home while the army controls the pocket. 2. Armed gangs from each ethnic group continue to harass members of the other, and control pockets of the country. 3. The Khmer Rouge control small pockets of territory in various parts of the country. 4. The Tamil Tiger rebels control pockets of land in eastern Sri Lanka and administer them with their own police force and courts. 5. Government officials said they did not know whether the attackers were Khmer Rouge guerrillas, who control large pockets of the country, or rural bandits. 6. The rebels, who control pockets of the impoverished countryside, want to topple the constitutional monarchy and establish a communist state. 7. Rebel groups which have split off from the SPLA, mostly along tribal lines, control other pockets. 8. The Bihac pocket is controlled by Moslem-led Bosnian troops but there have been no reports of clashes, UN spokesman Paul Risley said. |