11.   Amri Abdul Wahab, a rebel leader in northern Aceh, said the attack was carried out by soldiers who rounded up and machine-gunned the unarmed villagers.

12.   Besides his freedom, Sankoh has demanded official recognition of the rebels, who have been accused by aid officials and locals of mass atrocities against unarmed villagers.

13.   Besides his freedom, Sankoh is demanding official recognition of the rebels, who have been accused by aid officials and locals of mass atrocities against unarmed villagers.

14.   But witnesses and human rights activists said troops had executed a group of unarmed villagers.

15.   Death comes easily in Sierra Leone, where rebel fighters randomly kill and hack off limbs of unarmed villagers and government forces reply with scorched-earth bombing raids.

16.   In March, Nigeria accused Cameroon of attacking unarmed villagers in the disputed section of the peninsula.

17.   Observers say the dead were unarmed villagers.

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

19.   Rebels have been blamed by witnesses and aid workers for killing, raping and mutilating thousands of unarmed villagers in a campaign aimed at widening their influence through terror.

20.   Several times in recent months Nigeria has accused Cameroon of attacking unarmed villagers in the disputed section of the peninsula.