Schuma-battalions burned down villages suspected in supporting Soviet partisans.

"Soldiers on patrol have been accused of rape and other abuses in villages suspected of sympathizing with rebel forces."

The French military command ruthlessly applied the principle of collective responsibility to villages suspected of sheltering, supplying, or in any way cooperating with the guerrillas.

Major Kalabalikis, the Greek officer in charge of the region, ordered the arrest of 70 ethnic-Bulgarian peasants from the three villages, suspected as being responsible.

But not whole villages as we saw on TV in Vietnam when American forces torched villages suspected of hiding Vietcong.

The searching of a village suspected of Communist sympathies ends in murder and rape.

He said his unit was ordered to enter a village suspected of harboring rebels and to make sure "not to leave any survivors."

The attacks were part of an American-led operation against several villages suspected of harboring Taliban leaders.

The British policy of overwhelming reprisals against villages suspected of assisting the insurgency eventually brought the country under control.

Widespread burning of villages suspected of Communist sympathies was also common in the early years.