1.   His calls for party militants to attend ensured that plazas will be packed with government sympathizers able to smother protest.

2.   Over the past two years, ruling party militants led by the war veterans have attacked opposition supporters all over the country.

3.   Parliamentary elections last June and subsequent by-elections have been wracked by violence, which human rights groups blame mainly on ruling party militants.

4.   Party militants have also targeted Janet Jagan, the wife of the late President Cheddi Jagan and the leading candidate to succeed him, and opposition leader Desmond Hoyte.

5.   Party militants have disrupted recent rallies with stone throwing, but no one has been seriously injured.

6.   Political violence, blamed by human rights groups mostly on ruling party militants, has intensified in recent weeks, spurring intense international criticism of the government.

7.   Political violence, blamed by human rights groups mostly on ruling party militants, has intensified recently, spurring intense international criticism of the government.

8.   Rampaging groups of ruling party militants attacked whites Tuesday in the town near where the farmers were arrested Monday.

9.   Police arrested a retired white farmer for suspected involvement in the deaths of two ruling party militants in eastern Zimbabwe, relatives said Sunday.

10.   All were considered independent thinking judges who faced mounting pressure from the government and ruling party militants.