1.   The newly elected Governor, Zacaria Candao, was immediately confronted by an outbreak of serious fighting in June arising from a dispute between rival family clans.

2.   There are rival cliques within the army, mafia gangs and important family clans, who have scores to settle, wealth to dispute, power claims to assert.

3.   This nomadic life, carried on through many generations, has formed them into family clans that stick together with fierce loyalty.

4.   Five of the dead had been identified as students, all from the Hoti family clan.

5.   It dates from a time when family clans often lived together in isolated villages for hundreds of years, raising the problems of inbreeding.

6.   Six were students and most were from a single family clan, the Hotis, he said.

7.   The commander, who gave his name as Sylemetaj, said five of the dead were students and all from a single family clan, the Hotis.

8.   The commander, who gave his name as Sylemetaj, said six of the dead were students and most were from a single family clan, the Hotis.