Despite the fact that all the human rights violations that occurred or are alleged to have occurred involved the armed opposition (the rebels), all that was mentioned in the reports of the international human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International was a negligible number of such violations that were subsequently confirmed by the Commission, as mentioned in the Amnesty International report dated # ay # he gist of them was that the armed opposition had bound prisoners in chains and forced them to drink hot pepper sauce mixed with chemical acids and petroleum-based substances