In January 2008 Human Rights Watch received further reports of collaboration between SNR officials, certain police officers, and démobilisés based in the Bujumbura neighborhoods of Kanyosha, Kinama, and Kamenge. Residents reported that SNR officials were distributing weapons to démobilisés.[36] This was denied by the SNR, but Human Rights Watch found evidence of both SNR and police officials relying heavily on démobilisés to provide information and carry out “arrests” of suspects, and that a number of démobilisés were armed. The relationship between démobilisés and state agents varied in different locations.