1.   The foreign Taliban fighters also believe that alliance troops would rather slaughter them than let them go to trial.

2.   German troops slaughtered thousands of Serbs and other Yugoslavs during World War II.

3.   One soldier, Capt. Silas Soule, later described to Congress the gruesome scene where troops slaughtered Cheyenne and Arapaho women, children and elderly men.

4.   Police sources claimed the victims were rebels of the Free Aceh Movement, but human rights activists maintain that the troops slaughtered unarmed villagers.

5.   Indonesian troops slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians as the East Timorese resistance movement led by Gusmao fought for independence.