These murders, in effect reprisals against local Maoist guerrillas, who have also killed many, reached a bloody climax with the deaths of 58 men, women and children with no connection to extremism in the village of Lakshman Bathe in 1998.
His association with Celtic is not official, meaning no football reprisals can be taken against him or the club.
Sannikov, a 57-year-old former deputy foreign minister, said he was tortured by Belarus's secret police and that its chief personally threatened harsh reprisals against his wife – a journalist – and their four-year-old son.
Many of these killings appear to be reprisals following attacks.
"If Amisom left today," said a Somali journalist who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, "al-Shabaab would take power in the capital Mogadishu tomorrow".
They all spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals, but some were willing to provide the names of their dead family members.
Call for Tural Abbasli's release, for an end to the reprisals and harassment that his family are facing and for the politically motivated trials of all peaceful protesters in Azerbaijan to stop.
The problem is that Turkey – "neuralgic" on the subject (the word used privately by the British Foreign Office to describe its attitude) – has threatened reprisals and is too important geopolitically to provoke by affirming the genocide, lest it carry out threats to close its airbases to Nato and its borders to refugees.
Attempts by some of Gaza's tunnel operators to shoot at Egypt's soldiers have prompted further reprisals; some goods have been impounded.
The reason for such reluctance was a belief that any attack on the militants would trigger savage reprisals.
Some international agencies in the Serb Republic, fearing that reprisals would follow a NATO raid, are making contingency plans to pull out staff.
