31.   He has admitted ordering the cluster bomb attacks, but claims they were aimed at saving the lives of Croatian Serbs fleeing a Croat army offensive.

32.   He said he had contacted UNITA officials in Angola who told him the army offensive against rebel units was continuing.

33.   However, the Israeli leader stressed that he would not call off the current army offensive directed at Palestinian militants.

34.   Human-rights groups and refugees say the army offensives on the Myanmar side of the border include random murder, rape and torching of villages.

35.   However, the rebels have increased their attacks on military and civilian targets in rural areas recently, claiming they are responding to an army offensive.

36.   Human rights groups and refugees say army offensives on the Myanmar side of the border include random murder, rape and torching of villages.

37.   John Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for human rights, publicly expressed alarm at the extent of Croatian atrocities against Serb civilians following the army offensives.

38.   Many said they left behind homes leveled in the army offensive.

39.   Many rebel Serbs initially fled to Bosnian Serb-held regions from Croatia to escape the government army offensive.

40.   Meanwhile, Croatian authorities distributed food and clothes to Serbs in villages and towns recaptured during a Croatian army offensive this week.