1.   Others asserted that they saw soldiers mistreat Kurdish civilians.

2.   A military court handed down a three-month suspended sentence to a paratroop sergeant accused of mistreating civilians during the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

3.   He said civilians were being mistreated in Huambo by soldiers who accuse them of being rebel sympathizers.

4.   Russia accepted demands Friday that it let European human rights experts into Chechnya to look for evidence that civilians were mistreated as the Russian army crushed Chechen separatists.

5.   The program also featured actors in Japanese uniforms beating and mistreating civilians and battling Filipino guerrillas.

6.   Sudanese Information Minister Altayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Khair accused Addis Ababa of violating international norms and conventions and of breaking human rights accords by mistreating Sudanese civilians.