21.   Local villagers are quick to explain why.

22.   Local villagers are gradually cutting away the forest, and this leaves the butterflies more vulnerable with every winter cold snap.

23.   Local villagers later said they were recruited for burial details.

24.   Mahoney picked up an interpreter and began asking local villagers if they had seen anything or heard shots.

25.   Local villagers claimed the three men killed were collecting scrap metal left by previous bombings.

26.   Local villagers said the executions took place on Saturday morning, two days after the village came under siege by the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.

27.   Local villagers showed an uncomfortable silence when asked about the grave site.

28.   Omar said at their meeting in Kandahar that the men at Singesar intended originally only to help local villagers.

29.   Quarry work is available for the men because it is too backbreaking for the local villagers and because the Hmong will accept far lower wages.

30.   Slowly, injured refugees emerged from the forests, telling stories of being machine-gunned by uniformed soldiers and hacked at by local villagers.