1.   Police blamed neighborhood militias, which often attack suspected criminals, prostitutes, homosexuals and others they deem undesirable.

2.   Anti-independence militias are blamed for a wave of violence in recent months.

3.   Pro-Indonesian militias have been blamed for violence against independence supporters in an effort to intimidate voters.

4.   Pro-integrationist East Timorese militia have been blamed for the killing.

5.   The Hutu militia are blamed for causing insecurity in northeastern Congo, where they regularly attack civilian settlements and ambush cars, leaving scores of people dead.

6.   The militia is blamed for numerous murders of Hutu civilians, often in grenade attacks.

7.   The opposition blames the militias, many dressed in green denim uniforms, for disrupting its meetings and rallies ahead of upcoming presidential elections.

8.   The militia has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Christians in strife-torn Maluku islands.

9.   The militias are blamed for killings in towns outside Dili in the weeks before the rampage.

10.   The militia is blamed for numerous murders on Hutu civilians, often in grenade attacks.