1.   And an undisciplined Zairean army that prefers to loot rather than fight.

2.   They refused to return to Rwanda and soon were reported to be attacking Zairean Tutsis, who also fell prey in increasing numbers to attacks by Zairean army troops.

3.   Zairean Tutsi militias, backed by the Rwandan Tutsi army, retaliated with an offensive that routed the Zairean army around Goma earlier this month.

4.   An anti-Rwandan sentiment has swept the region in recent weeks since an attempt to bomb a plane carrying the Zairean army chief of staff.

5.   The Zairean army has begun preparing a major counteroffensive to drive Tutsi-led rebels from eastern Zaire.

6.   They are trapped between the Zairean rebels and the Zairean army.

7.   Fighting pitting Zairean Tutsi rebels known as Banyamulenge against the Zairean army has raged around Uvira, farther south, and the rebels have been advancing towards Bukavu.

8.   Fighting since September between the Zairean army and rebel Tutsis has led to the flight of some half a million mainly Rwandan Hutu refugees and local Zairean people.

9.   Fighting between the Zairean army and armed Tutsis raged on Saturday in the mountains around Uvira, which borders conflict-torn Burundi, independent Radio Agatashya reported.

10.   He condemned human rights abuses by both the rebel forces in Zaire and the Zairean army.