"A few categories of loyalists appear to be particularly vulnerable: pro-regime fighters believed by the rebels to be African mercenaries have been abused and possibly executed after capture. Similar treatment is said to have been received by some unfortunate dark-skinned immigrants. In June and July, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch, rebels in the western mountains reportedly burnt buildings and beat civilians in a region where one tribe had been settled by the regime in another tribe’s traditional territory. "