111.   However, independent election monitors refrained from calling the polls free and fair saying they were conducted amid an atmosphere of political killings and intimidation.

112.   Human right watchdog Amnesty International attacked the international community on Thursday for its indifference to political killings in Burundi.

113.   In another development Wednesday, a special police team charged with investigating political killings and other crimes said it had arrested three suspects.

114.   Independent election monitors refrained from calling the polls free and fair saying they were conducted amid an atmosphere of political killings and intimidation.

115.   A UN commission on human rights on Tuesday denounced the rising number of executions of Iranian opposition leaders living abroad and called on Tehran to cease political killings immediately.

116.   An opposition figure has been murdered in Kigali in what his party termed a political killing, a pro-opposition newspaper reported Wednesday.

117.   Contreras was sentenced to a seven-year prison term for the political killing ordered under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet.

118.   Despite the bizarre circumstances of the death and numerous recent political killings of Russian journalists, evidence indicated that Korolyov was merely the victim of everyday crime.

119.   The United States put part of its aid to Haiti on hold Tuesday to press President Rene Preval into investigating political killings of opposition leaders in the Caribbean nation.

120.   The United States has also recently voiced concern about security in Haiti in particular political killings that have persisted despite elections and the return of democratic rule.