21.   Some aid workers, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Congolese militia had been joined by Rwandan Hutu rebels to fight against Tutsis.

22.   The former militiamen were charged with collaborating with the enemy, joining the militia or entering Israel, a country still technically at war with Lebanon.

23.   The proposed laws would allow courts to pardon anyone found guilty of nonviolent crimes or those who had been coerced into joining anti-independence militias, he said.

24.   They described the men as renegades who had been kicked out of meetings for advocating violence and never officially joined the militia.

25.   They described the men as renegades who had been kicked out of meetings and never officially joined the militia.

26.   Volunteers from mountain villages were streaming into the city to join self-defense militias.

27.   The SLA confirmed the attacks and said Israeli troops joined the militia in blasting villages north of the zone.

28.   The Council did not say where it got the military equipment or who might join the militia.