1.   An independent commission in Indonesia and a U.N. panel concluded two years ago that the military, which opposed independence, had supported the militias.

2.   Iran also supports these militias, while Pakistan backs the Taliban.

3.   To wipe out tribes, state officials paid millions of dollars in bounties and to support private militias.

4.   Pakistan is believed to have supported the militia.

5.   According to prosecutors and foreign governments, including the United States, the armed forces have tacitly, and sometimes actively, supported the militias.

6.   Alfredo Molano, a respected columnist, said seriously pursuing paramilitary groups would cause dangerous rifts in the army and sectors of the political establishment that support the militias.

7.   Amnesty International accused the Indonesian government on Monday of undermining security in East Timor by supporting armed militias opposed to independence.

8.   Human rights groups have long accused the army of actively supporting militias that have committed dozens of massacres in an indirect means of combating leftist rebels.

9.   Independence activists accuse the Indonesian military of supporting anti-independence militias in a campaign to derail the vote.

10.   The Indonesian government has denied allegations that is supporting the militias.