1.   In major assaults, the village is burnt and the women and children captured and incorporated in the community.

2.   An Afghan man, right, holds the bloodstained robe of his daughter, who died when Muslim fighters attacked and burned the village.

3.   As villages were burned and towns were evacuated, hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge in cities like Batman, Diyarbakir and Sanliurfa.

4.   Assuming that Mayans were sympathizing with guerillas, military security forces burned villages and slaughtered inhabitants to cut off supplies and deny shelter to the guerrillas.

5.   According to some accounts, entire Mayan villages were burned and their inhabitants slaughtered during the war in an effort to deny protection to guerrillas fighting the goverment.

6.   Almost the entire village has been burned.

7.   But ethnic Albanians trickling into northwestern Macedonia here told of Yugoslav forces burning villages as recently as Thursday.

8.   But last summer, the Croat army recaptured the region, burning Serb villages and driving Serbs from the region.

9.   Combined army and police units have been shelling and burning villages, steadily clearing the area of villagers and Kosovo Liberation Army fighters who have tried to resist.

10.   During those operations, Serbian civilians were killed, villages were burned to the ground and several hundred thousand Serbs were forced to flee.