They formed local militias, which provided trained individuals, but they were certainly willing to use violence against reluctant villagers.

It had been accused of assisting Sudanese forces in an ethnic cleansing campaign against villagers near its oil fields.

Mundame become a military base from which the German forces retaliated against villagers who were up in arms due to the brutal conditions of the plantations.

The report, by the high commissioner for human rights, said warnings about paramilitary attacks against defenseless villagers often went unheeded.

In fact, Saddam has used chemical weapons of mass destruction against innocent villagers, his own people.

The raw materials were sent to Iraq before they were used in the mass attack against Kurdish villagers, the court said.

Members of these military units have been accused of perpetrating human rights abuses against local villagers.

The chemicals were used in poison gas weapons in the 1980s and against Kurdish villagers.

Next time he might use chemical weapons, as he has done against Iranian soldiers and Kurdish villagers.

Contestants then train against local villagers.