The looting began earlier this week when unpaid soldiers and hungry civilians demonstrated in the capital, Kinshasa.
Members of the confederation, which consisted mostly of unpaid soldiers, demanded their money.
Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia.
Aetius dies after losing control over his unpaid mutinous soldiers.
Poyer, an unruly and, probably, very dishonest man, refused and used the excuse of the unpaid soldiers.
The royal army, with many of its soldiers unpaid for months, started to disintegrate.
The treasury was empty, and the unpaid soldiers were growing restive, almost to the point of mutiny or possible coup d'état.
His country, facing secessionist pressures and growing lawlessness by unpaid soldiers, is slouching toward anarchy.
With the deepening financial crises of the republican regimes, unpaid soldiers often deserted, sold their uniforms, and carried off any military equipment that they could steal.
There was a gantlet of unpaid soldiers and desperately hungry immigration officers to be paid off.