There is no centrally commanded rebel army in Iraq.
Among the dead, rebels said, was Col. Hussein Darbouk, a defected Libyan officer who had been commanding rebel forces in the town.
The prosecution, which has rested its case, has charged that he armed and commanded rebel groups to bolster his influence in West Africa and to seize a large swath of neighboring Sierra Leone, in particular its diamond-mining areas.
This came after an apparent order signed by Igor Strelkov, the Russian citizen commanding rebel forces in the besieged town of Slavyansk, announcing that two of his commanders had been sentenced to death for looting on the basis of a 1941 Soviet wartime decree.
With a background in the Russian military, including service in Chechnya, Serbia and Trans-Dniester, a self-proclaimed republic on the territory of Moldova, he commanded rebel forces in their symbolic stronghold of Sloviansk before retreating with his men to Donetsk.
Pillay met with President Salva Kiir and his former vice-president Riek Machar, who now commands rebel forces from the bush in Upper Nile State.
But at present, with nothing approaching a unified command, the rebels appear divided about whether they want a no-fly zone.
LIBYA Defecting Libyan military officers in the eastern part of the country took steps to establish a unified command, while rebels in several cities close to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's stronghold in Tripoli continued to repulse repeated attempts by the government to retake them.
The judge at the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone found that Taylor did not command the rebels, as the prosecution had alleged.
Under Kaduya's command, the rebels ambushed a small party of government soldiers near Mbombwe on 24 January, described as the "one reverse suffered by the government" during the uprising.
