Those in favour of arming the rebels contemplate nothing of the sort.

Arming the rebels would be a thankless folly, likely to backfire on us.

Only 17 per cent support arming the rebels.

Just in case, though, he thinks the allies should start arming the rebels.

Not only did they fund and arm the rebels, they even supplied troops.

They would strike up conversation about the rebel cause before moving on to voice their ardour for those opposing the regime.

After this incident, he joined forces with the rebel cause.

The rest of the province remained loyal to the rebel cause.

Another reason why the location was chosen was because the surrounding area held citizens that were sympathetic to the rebel cause.

When the revolution split the colonies, he supported the rebel cause.

In one area, he said, the military had carried out blanket shelling in response to rebel fire.

The tanks behind the lead vehicle all began a withdrawal from the area, under rebel fire, and retreated apparently to the city limits.

Some rebels fired by their number, tried to rush the estate house.

The approaches to the river saw the first clash as the rebels fired on the column from the forest undergrowth.

The rebel soldiers took him as he ate lunch on a break from school.

Even the possibility of running across rebel soldiers doesn't bother him.

They were believed by the rebel soldiers to be mercenaries.

One of the prisoners appeared to be very young, but all three looked terrified as a mob of rebel soldiers surged around the vehicle.

Rebel soldiers wear dark glasses, but use bows and arrows believing they have magical properties.

He was referring to the rebel stronghold in the east of the country.

Volunteers said most people seemed to have left the former rebel stronghold.

Both sides blamed each other for the shellings in the main rebel stronghold.

Our host said he was looking for a car to take us to the nearest rebel stronghold, about seven miles away.

You've entered the land of the nine glens, a rebel stronghold so wild and so isolated, it was never subdued.

He would nearly have supported the rebel amendment to stiffen the motion, but ... oh, it was all such a mess.

He was suspended from the party for supporting the rebels.

She urged senior ministers to show courage, expressing confidence that there were some who privately supported the rebels.

They said he was supporting the rebels.

The government responded by encouraging the militias, known as the janjaweed, to target civilians it suspected of supporting the rebels.

By the end of the rebellion in 1960, 100,000 suspected rebels had been incarcerated and at least 12,000 were dead.

Reprisals against rebels and suspected rebels began right away and lasted for weeks in a highly public and distressing campaign of repression.

Several hundred rebel prisoners as well as suspected rebels and sympathisers were subsequently hanged without a trial or much legal process.

The insurgency lead to the death of 4-5000 (unofficial) people and over 20,000 suspected rebels mostly youth were arrested in the amnesty period that followed.

Throughout the country, government forces continued to arbitrarily arrest and detain civilians and suspected rebels, often on the basis of ethnicity, and subject them to cruel and unusual punishment.

Fighting in the area, part of the shrinking territory still under rebel control, had become particularly intense recently.

Local officials said that the area was under rebel control.

There were reports of numerous strafing runs by helicopters and government jets on areas under rebel control.

The air base fell under rebel control days later.

It was rejected and the marines marched on the principal towns under rebel control.