After Haitian gunmen attacked a limousine carrying Duvalier's children, Papa Doc ordered the execution of 65 army officers for suspected involvement.
"We've received reports of the summary execution of Iraqi army soldiers during the capture of Mosul and of 17 civilians in one particular street," Colville said.
The looting that took place here, along with reports of army executions of suspected Islamists and their allies, has raised fears that Mali, after two decades of peace among its many ethnic groups, is headed for a period of deep ethnic tension.
In a joint statement on Jonglei dated 20 June, the UN and NGOs detailed reports of the alleged killing by the army of 16 civilians in Pibor and Boma and the execution of 12 Murle outside an army camp.
His first act was to organise the cold-blooded execution of more than 2,000 imprisoned army officers, suspected of being "fifth-columnists".
In his diaries, Guevara described the first such execution of Eutimio Guerra, a peasant army guide who admitted treason when it was discovered he accepted the promise of ten thousand pesos for repeatedly giving away the rebel's position for attack by the Cuban air force.
Despite Howe's best attempts to minimise the plundering by his army (he authorised the execution of violators of his orders against it), this activity by the army had a significant negative effect on popular support.
One top Iraqi official told The New York Times that the border crossings, in Anbar and Nineveh Provinces, were closed and that Iraqi border forces had witnessed the executions of several Syrian army soldiers at the hands of the Free Syrian Army rebels and the raising of the rebels' flag.
Such executions are usually carried out at prisons under the supervision of army officers and then the bodies are handed over to relatives for burial.
The Spanish Foreign Legion committed atrocities many women and children were killed, and the army carried out summary execution of leftists.
