11.   At Shukba, villagers said they had little faith that the settlers would be prosecuted or punished for the shooting.

12.   At the first village, a tiny hamlet called Khalwol, the villagers said they had not seen Pakistani soldiers for over a month.

13.   A number died in a recent outbreak of dengue fever, the villagers said.

14.   After that first night, the Uzbeks came again and again, the villagers said, always demanding money and valuables at the points of their guns.

15.   After the shooting stopped, the villagers said, they fled and the soldiers ransacked their homes looking for weapons.

16.   But as of Friday, the villagers said, the Israelis did not seem intent on cracking down.

17.   But here, some villagers said they were still respecting the edicts.

18.   But Klukwan villagers said the Whale House art belonged to the larger clan.

19.   But they then barred the villagers from burying all twenty victims together in the graveyard, the villagers said.

20.   But they were so disfigured by crude autopsies that they were unrecognizable, the villagers said.