11.   A town plaza was planted with grass and weeping willows.

12.   And when a government representative stood before them on the grassy town plaza and promised a new road, they snickered.

13.   Army chief Gen. Jorge Mora accompanied dozens of soldiers into Mesetas, where he told residents gathered in the town plaza that they had been liberated.

14.   Blood stained the entrance and passageways of city hall Thursday morning, and bullet marks scarred the main door and nearby trees in the town plaza.

15.   Eventually trapped after fighting into the town plaza, Whitaker pulled his men back to the beach and withstood an enemy onslaught until landing craft rescued the survivors.

16.   Francisco Alberto Diaz Hernandez, a town councilman, said villagers now returning to the town plaza felt safe with helmeted troops around.

17.   It is beside the town plaza where a wave of people are concluding mass with songs and candle lighting.

18.   On that day, villagers said they watched as soldiers dragged three men into a tiny church and tortured them until their screams echoed across the town plaza.

19.   Suspected rightist militias dragged seven unarmed villagers from their homes and executed them in the town plaza Tuesday, police said, as political violence surged in Colombia.

20.   The main business on the town plaza is a moneychanger.