1.   Police arrested nine rebel suspects recently, and they confessed to plotting to kill President Chandrika Kumaratunga.

2.   A rebel suspect had confessed to police that militants were planning to hijack or hire an aircraft to bomb the building in the capital.

3.   A state-appointed human rights group has said that many soldiers and policemen are ill-treating Tamil rebel suspects.

4.   Eighteen Tamil rebel suspects detained in an eastern Sri Lankan prison have begun a hunger strike demanding to be released, officials said Tuesday.

5.   Elsewhere in the city, crowds laughed at the burned, disfigured body of another rebel suspect.

6.   In Kosovo, which served as a supply base for fighters during the Macedonian insurgency, officials reported border crossings by rebel suspects.

7.   In Kosovo, which served as a supply base for fighters and weapons during the Macedonian insurgency, officials reported border crossings by rebel suspects.

8.   It was the second time in recent weeks that the military had released Tamil rebel suspects in the north.

9.   Last week, an Associated Press reporter witnessed the beating of a rebel suspect at the police station at Katima Mulilo.

10.   Many relatives of the disappeared have claimed that their family members have been missing since the army arrested them as rebel suspects.