1.   Earlier this year, former guerrilla fighters who were unemployed clashed with police after holding a deputy minister hostage while demanding jobs.

2.   Mutinous soldiers took the army chief and a Cabinet minister hostage Saturday and surrounded the presidential palace in their second uprising in two months.

3.   The veterans have beaten up officials and held ministers hostage over the past four weeks of protests.

4.   The situation was further complicated Saturday when an army reserve lieutenant with personal grievances took two ministers hostage at gunpoint and held them for several hours.