Soldiers were accused of "cleansing" amid claims of forced cannibalism, rape, mass civilian killings, abduction, conscription of children, looting, cattle theft and the burning of entire villages.
The groups became notorious because they rampaged through towns and villages, killing, as well as looting cars, cattle and valuables, and burning homes and mosques.
In effect, the profits earned by Rhodes and his associates from established Southern African diamond and gold interests were speculatively reinvested in the BSAC and thus in the conquest of regions of Africa where land, looted cattle, gold, other minerals and assets, and the labour of Africans might be exploited.
His 53 cattle had been looted.
They burnt houses and looted cattle and grain in the villages.
Grant regained the castle before 1517, but not before the MacDonalds had driven off 300 cattle and 1,000 sheep, as well as looting the castle of provisions.
Earlier this year, the state-controlled newspaper, The Herald, quoted a senior official who accused white farmers of "running away from Zimbabwe, looting our resources and carrying our cattle with them".
Darfur's displaced people have fled terror attacks by armed militia that included killings, abductions, gang rapes, looting, the burning of villages and the stealing of cattle.
In Bangladesh -- where more than a million people have been affected by the floods -- pirates in boats looted rice, cattle and furniture from the homes of thousands of people who fled their marooned villages.
