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As a result of the fighting and attacks on aid workers, only 50 percent of civilians affected by the fighting are getting help, he said.

The head of the ambulance service in Mogadishu said it had been overwhelmed by the number of injured civilians.

The initial U. S. investigation said the strike had killed at least 30 militants and between five and seven civilians.

The inquiry found that the innocent civilians had been A. subjected to inhumane treatment for too long.

Harder decisions followed. Libya's army continued to shell other rebel-held cities, and its snipers were plainly targeting civilians.

Nato has admitted it was responsible for an air strike that killed civilians in Tripoli over the weekend.

Faced with the killing, raping and looting, civilians no longer differentiate between the various groups of men with guns.

He was an aloof, solitary soldier whose job was to discover Gestapo agents by interviewing French civilians and captured Germans.

"The military council's politics are not clear. It seems they are trying to stay in control and not hand over power to civilians, " he said.

First get rid of his own thorn in the side, and the second is interested in joining the police force to intimidate the ordinary civilians.

In Iraq the face of the enemy is one that is intent on murdering Iraqi civilians and officials alike, the general said.

Most of the victims appear to be Afghan civilians and security guards. NATO officials said the attacker did not breach the airport defenses.

Or As Tim puts it "Time after time, you'll see messages, between computing civilians, of the form " Sorry that this picture is so big "" .

In fact, the debt is civilians were excluded from the land beyond the inevitable result of the means of production.

The police superintendent, Philip Cline, stepped down in April after two videos emerged of off-duty officers beating civilians.

But there continued to be high-profile incidents, including one where 23 civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike in February.

The recent joint army and marines counter-insurgency manual says the central aim is not to destroy the enemy but to protect civilians.

Very few civilians turned up, but police were out in droves and censors banned the word "jasmine" from China's microblogs.

He told The Guardian: "The [attorney general's] note fails to clarify the extent to which force might be used to protect civilians. "

Then, once Israel's aerial attacks began, Egypt distinguished itself by shooting Palestinian civilians trying to flee across that border.

He says the civilians are trying to break the embargo to bring relief to people in Gaza and he hopes there will not be any tension.

The only ground on which the Arab world and then the United Nations could agree on the use of force was the protection of Libyan civilians.

He said he would try to convince Hamas to halt attacks against Israeli civilians, but in an unofficial capacity.

"It is strictly aimed at civilians, " he said. "This is all about education and about exchange of ideas with civilians. "

We target every large vehicle that we think is theirs to be used against the opposition and civilians who are trying to stand against him.

Why doesn't NATO establish a NO FLY zone to protect the civilians in Syria? It should all be over in a few days or a week tops, right?

Protecting and influencing civilians is all the rage in counter-insurgency circles.

Although the enemy was nowhere to be seen, the US soldiers of Charlie Company rounded up unarmed civilians and gunned them down.

The foreign secretary has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in the conflict and for civilians to be allowed to leave the afflicted area.

Ma'ruf said Israel was trying to cover up for killing thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.

The official version was that some of the civilians involved had been shooting at the police, but the police rallied and justice prevailed.

He said he would not accept the outside world about the threat to Qadhafi government forces on civilians, killing civilians remarks.

He said the Libyan government has announced ceasefires several times before only to continue attacking civilians.

"We're relieved to hear that all civilians have come out of the combat zone, " a UN spokesman said.

While Mr. Obama and European leaders have called on Col. Gadhafi to leave office, the U. N. authorized force only to protect civilians. U.

"The air strikes as what happened today did not differentiate between civilians and armored personnel, " Kaim said.

The Nanjing massacre was an orgy of violence in which Japanese soldiers murdered tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians.

Mr Al Amin said the majority of fighters are not soldiers but civilians who did not come under his command.

This treatment did not make them tolerant of any rebellious behaviour in others, including civilians.

A British diplomat said the draft would be ready in the event of a serious attack on civilians by Libyan air power.

John Rabe wrote the Japanese army's brutality in his diary and he wrote as if he had saved civilians.

NATO justified its interdiction of the Jupiter on the ground that its fuel would have been used by the army to attack civilians.

The main body of rural tourism in Song Dynasty, up to the emperor and down to the civilians, includes all the social classes.

Very few civilians turned up, but police were out in droves and censors banned the word "jasmine" from China's micro blogs.

The group said it was out of the question that any of its fighters could carry out a bombing which would hurt civilians.

Rebels also fired mortar shells into a civilian area in Muttur near Trincomalee, killing at least two civilians.

He said the situation for civilians has become intolerable.

In his weekly address to the nation, Obama said the joint effort is showing results, and Libyan civilians have expressed gratitude.

The only way out for civilians was a 260-mile road cutting across the desert and leading to Tobruq and the Egyptian border.

Thousands of civilians are trapped, with dwindling supplies of clean water and food. Hundreds are alleged to have been killed or maimed.

It showed another house besides bin Laden's clearly in the blast radius and estimated that up to a dozen civilians could be killed.

But now that Western and Arab armed forces are trying to protect civilians and rebels, casualties are unacceptable.

He says that he now believes Israel did not intentionally target civilians "as a matter of policy" .

The president acknowledged that there had been martyrs from the civilians as well as the army.

The idea, he said, was to protect civilians with a no-fly zone.

He stood by his words even after seven Canadian civilians and a Canadian UN peacekeeper were killed in the onslaught.

James Elder, a spokesman for Unicef in Sri Lanka, calls the centre a genuine attempt to help child soldiers learn how to be civilians.

"The prospect of still another round of heavy fighting has set many civilians on the road once more, " the agency said in a statement.

The German invaded slaughtered the innocent civilians of the city to a man. Such atrocities were blamed throughout the world.

No one who targets innocent civilians of any nationality should be tolerated or protected.

We are going to put substantial additional resources in this year in terms of military, financial and civilians.

A fixed portion, especially an amount of food allotted to persons in military service or to civilians in times of scarcity.

The US-led NATO troops have a difficult time trying to identify insurgents from civilians as the Taliban operate amongst the population.

There is enough food to feed the displaced Kachin civilians for a month, she said, but aid workers are also struggling to keep people warm.

It had taken until Friday to eliminate the attackers from the two other sites where a number of civilians were found dead of gun shots .

The fighting in Darfur is usually described as racially motivated, pitting mounted Arabs against black rebels and civilians.

Several of his officials and allies have been accused of complicity with the paramilitaries and his army murdered many civilians.

It was urgent both militarily arid in the event of a thermonuclear war in which civilians would be involved.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said questions must be asked as to what more can be done to halt attacks on Libyan civilians.

The IDF said the car was carrying civilians and no one was hurt, though the vehicle suffered some damage.

The agency said the plane was carrying five U. S. military officials and three civilians on a trip to Afghanistan.

It became clear to us that we were witnessing the aftermath of a massacre, the cold-blooded butchery of helpless and defenceless civilians.

The president does not need to read a leaked document on the internet to day to be shocked [by civilians casualties] . . .

Civilians in Tripoli have to queue for a week to get petrol.

"Had this plot been carried out the loss of life to innocent civilians would have been on an unprecedented scale, " he said.

This left the Caucasus unprotected, and the Caucasian and Persian civilians starving after years of war and depravation.

Provincial police chief Malik Naveed Khan said the dead included five air force personnel and eight civilians.

Residents say people have been fighting back after helicopters and tanks killed at least 40 civilians during the weekend.

It is hard to imagine the military is devoting all this effort only to transfer its inheritance to civilians it has long repressed.

Anneke van Woudenberg, who works with Human Rights Watch, she said civilians were left almost defenseless .

Soldiers and civilians, some dancing, others firing Kalashnikovs into the sky, enthusiastically pledged their loyalty to the regime.

In both regions, the violence against civilians has been a consequence of military attempts to crush an elusive and ruthless rebel force.

Rebel attacks have led to the death of at least 14 civilians, something which has angered many mainstream Turkish politicians.

In its subsequent operations, at least 100 Palestinians, a good half of them civilians, have been killed.

Thousands of fighters and civilians poured in and began looting and grabbing just about anything in sight.

But in December 2009 an air strike was blamed for killing more than 40 civilians as well as a handful of intended targets.

We would likely have to put U. S. troops on the ground to accomplish that mission, or risk killing many civilians from the air.

Russia lost at least 14 million soldiers and a similar number of civilians.

Mr Karzai said his government had repeatedly asked the United States not to carry out air raids that risk killing Afghan civilians.

Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians fled the last remaining patch of Sri Lanka controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Since the Obama administration took office, it has tripled the number of U. S. civilians in Afghanistan.

It also called for an immediate end to use of force against civilians by Libyan troops and said those responsible must be held to account.

Earlier , at least seven civilians were killed during a security operation by US and Iraqi army forces near Falluja, west of Baghdad .

Thousands of civilians continue to flee the capital Mogadishu where the militants are battling against the transitional government.

U. S. -backed military strikes that have killed civilians and a local government official have increased disdain for foreign interference.

That was an "easy" lesson; "civilians" with no particular programming background can understand the previous paragraph.

Obama said that with its allies and partners, the U. S. is working to end the violence and protect innocent civilians in Sudan.

Patrick: Well, generally, (as are films) although this seems to surprise many civilians.

He said it would serve no purpose when the rebels were clearly holding civilians as human shields.

The Army had itself been devastated by the quake, and was slow to take care of civilians after tending to its own.

Israeli military reoccupied the West Bank towns after two suicide bombing attacks took place in Jerusalem, killing 26 civilians.

The military says in an effort to protect civilians it has stopped using heavy weapons and any reported shelling is being done by the LTTE.

The protection of civilians is "a burning concern" as military action increases, he said.

Leftover weapons serve as the raw material for the improvised bombs used to target Iraqi civilians and coalition military forces.

If the policemen have found out a killer, declare frankly and clearly, please, for fear that we civilians push someone out wrongly.

Mr Beevor moves on to even more delicate ground when he explores the disregard of the allies for the property and lives of French civilians.

As a result, however, more civilians may be caught up in the fighting and some Myawaddy locals are not happy with the change in tactics.

"We were still civilians. All of our training was to make [Army] Air Corps pilots, " Tedeschi said.

A local clergyman said at least 180 civilians had been killed during the night.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the continued attacks on civilians could not be excused.

Twenty-two people, including soldiers and civilians, died after they were trapped by the blaze during the fire control work.

Aristocrats and capitalists use such magic bullet, civilians would not dare say anything, then give birth to the strength of the class.

It's never a good sign when you have to tell the men guarding your base not to murder civilians, torture detainees or desecrate corpses.

The White House, in a statement, is calling on both sides to immediately cease fighting and allow civilians to exit the conflict area.

More than 500 civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks across Pakistan since the launch of the South Waziristan offensive in October.

She said that the Syrian leader was not indispensable after the attacks on civilians.

The U. S. border is being threatened by Mexican rebels and a large-scale attack could endanger millions of civilians.

The people acting as the top leaders and earning most in the company always forget the difficult lives of the civilians.

As the rebellion started, the Libyan leader had no qualms about ordering troops to open fire on unarmed civilians.

After all, body armour may be an expected part of an army, police or security services uniform, but civilians need more discretion.

Israeli spokesmen said Hamas deliberately and cynically operated close to civilians. Hence the number of children killed in the fighting.

Using heat-rays on the enemy might look bad in the newspapers, and put civilians off their breakfast.

But the missiles have also killed dozens of Pakistani civilians, deepening resentment of the faceless foreign presence in the sky.

Painted clay sculpture in Fengxiang, with a long history , has passed on among the civilians for three thousand years .

The police official says three civilians died and six others were injured as they were passing by on the road.

But the alarming increase in the number of civilians among the Palestinian dead has jolted Israeli policymakers.

In the Walikale attack, one UN official worries that the body is not meeting its obligations to protect civilians.

She said in a densely populated area, it is more difficult to ensure the safety of civilians, who often are caught in the crossfire .

The psychologists found no difference between the police and the civilians in correctly remembering the details of the crimes.

Years of unmanned U. S. drone airstrikes against Pakistan-based targets have killed both militants and civilians.

They are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their mission, even if it kills civilians or results in the team's own destruction.

The violence in Urumqi has led to the death of "a number of civilians and one armed police officer" on Sunday.

Since portrait painting gradually spread to outside of the imperial palace, ordinary officials and civilians also liked to be sketched.

Fierce army onslaughts finished off the brutal Tamil Tigers, but thousands of civilians were killed, injured or displaced in the process.

The white snake story originated from civilians, and is a beautiful and fairy folklore, which it is one of the four big Chinese folklores.

Muslim Americans are the most likely of the major faith groups in the United States to reject violent attacks against civilians.

Led by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the son of a elderly jihadist warlord, it has been accused of numerous attacks on western civilians and soldiers.

He said that a military operation to eradicate bin Laden and Omar should not come at the sacrifice of Afghan civilians.

It has all the legal tools it needs to keep civilians like Mr Abhisit in line, without the bother of having actually to run the country.

A few days ago it wouldn't have seemed possible - Indonesian security forces side by side with Acehnese civilians, praying for peace.

It has armed Alawite civilians and sought to resolve any grievances with the different clans within the community to secure its loyalty.

Hundreds of civilians are reportedly dead after violence broke out in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia .

United Nations aid officials say at least 57 civilians are among the dead.

The fate of a quarter of a million civilians trapped in a Tiger-controlled pocket of territory remains precarious and unknown.

He also insisted the military aim is only to protect civilians and American ground troops will not be deployed.

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed and thousands injured before Israel pulled out in mid-January.

It was the western forces that used strikes from air and sea to force Gaddafi's troops to cease fire and end attacks on civilians.

Overseas, now outraged Pakistan officials saya cross-border attack today by coalition forces killed at least 20 civilians.

israeli air strikes have killed several civilians in lebanon , including at least 17 syrian farm workers on the border in the bekaa valley.

The U. S. military put the death toll at 18, including one policeman and 17 civilians, and said a lone woman bomber was responsible.

The last thing NATO wants now is to kill a lot of civilians or rebel fighters when the outcome is no longer in any doubt.

The German Army has been heavily criticized for calling in an US air strike on the Taliban when many civilians were nearby.

A country cannot be entitled strong until all its civilians receive higher education and are covered by the social security.

After the incident, civilians threw stones at the U. N. convoy, the latest manifestation of local frustration with the operation.

Targeted attacks on senior Libyan officials might be justified if this is the only way to stop attacks on civilians.

The men are charged with committing war crimes against Kosovar Serbs, Kosovar Albanian civilians, and Serb prisoners during the Kosovo War.

'That means all attacks against civilians must stop, ' he said.

The same agency said the attack had caused panic among civilians.

Allied aircraft have proved unable to fully protect civilians and rebel forces under heavy attack from Gadhafi loyalists.

as a civil servant , he or she should take civilians ' interests as top priority rather than his own benefits.

At least 159 civilians, it says, have been publicly executed, including young girls.

Up to 100000 civilians have fled Pakistan's South Waziristan because of a military offensive against Taliban militants, Reuters reported.

At least five civilians were killed in extrajudicial executions.

The administrations policy, unveiled in March, puts a high priority on protecting Afghan civilians as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.

Elsewhere deliberate attacks on civilians have proven to be an appalling, if relatively effective, method of warfare.

A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered through the summer to protect Libyan civilians.

Havel later recalled that what struck him most about that August week was the futility of military power confronted by unarmed civilians.

It has an airstrip, a military base and a small town hall, and is occupied by about 60 civilians.

They are on the run and trying to block the exodus of civilians from the area.

It declined to co-operate, for instance, with a UN inquiry into a shelling incident that killed 19 civilians in Gaza in 2006.

And a humanitarian cause for going to war is damaged when you screw up and kill civilians instead.

The costly result is a growing greenness in the cities and a healthier environment for all the civilians who live there.

Tai Shi shaping public personality prominent female civilians with a heavy breath of life.

Report Misrata: 7 large explosions and many civilians die as market place was turned into a Battlefield was once again by rebel infighting.

At least 35 civilians had been killed, along with dozens of insurgents.

Last night, NATO decided to take on the additional responsibility of protecting Libyan civilians.

The army's crushing of the rebels at the time also killed, injured or displaced tens of thousands of Tamil civilians.

Mr Assad's response was to intensify his assaults against unarmed civilians, notably in the Mediterranean port of Latakia (see article).

The court said Sanussi had "directly instructed the troops to attack civilians demonstrating" in Benghazi, now the rebels' city stronghold.

But, how come they never learn to serve their civilians in solving their problems, to stop corruption as well as financial issue.

In Uruzgan province, officials say, a suicide bomber attacked a polling station, killing four Afghan soldiers and two civilians. And the U.

They shot and killed two Israeli civilians who work for the company that supplies fuel to Gaza.

In Afghanistan itself the Taliban have been adept at duping foreign forces into becoming their recruiters through the killing of civilians.

Aid agencies continued to express concern about the safety of as many as 150, 000 civilians prevented from leaving by the Tigers.

Hundreds of civilians are to be sent to assist his forces, mainly to pep up their flagging efforts to provide economic development.

And by attacking civilians cowardly they are showing one more time that they are purely terrorists and that they have no mission.

Some say these foreign forces overstepped the mark; others say the intervention was in keeping with a UN mandate to protect civilians.

It would have to depend on volunteer forces raised, officered, and manned by politicians and erstwhile civilians.

After power returned to civilians, they enacted an amnesty covering the crimes of the dictators and their guerrilla opponents alike.

The Sri Lankan government has called on civilians trapped in territory held by the Tamil Tigers to move to a demarcated safe zone.

In Afghanistan, a U. S. soldier has been detained after shooting Afghan civilians Sunday. Afghan officials report at least 16 dead.

But it appealed to the warring parties to remember that they had an obligation under international law to protect civilians.

He must never again be able to threaten the lives of Libyan civilians, nor to destabilise Libya once he has left power.

This, however, only solved the problem of official letters, and civilians were left without any means of written communication.

We appeal to the international community, to the all the free world, to stop this tyranny from exterminating civilians.

On which Colonial ship did civilians die when armed Marines overreacted and opened fire during a riot?

Liberia's civil war took a heavy toll on civilians, infrastructure and social services, including health care.

It argued that the need to protect civilians was an overwhelming moral imperative.

And we have seen in the past that tanks have been used by the Gadaffi regime to attack civilians.

The Lebanese death toll has been mounting fast: at least 300 people have been killed, most of them civilians.

Most of these civilians said they were heading to Merca in Lower Shabelle Province, 100 km south of the capital.

VOA was not able to verify a local elder's statement that four civilians were killed in the attack.

Over 1, 500 civilians have been killed; thousands have been detained as the police try to suppress unprecedented dissent.

At the time, I found it surprising that these virus-writers were apparently amateurs, civilians.

But it has come under increasing pressure from the Security Council to take more aggressive action to protect civilians.

"To cause so many civilians to die was a great blunder by the P. L. A. and tragedy unparalleled in the civil war, " Mr. Zhou said.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed during the insurgency.

Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U. S. troops and civilians.

Most Americans are clueless about the Philippines occupation, in which hundreds of thousands of civilians died.

And, of course, seeing Israel using heavy weapons against Palestinian civilians.

Two civilians in Gaza are dead as a result of Israeli air strike today. The number dead is now 18 over three days of strikes.

Evacuation, temporary shelter and iodine pills are the chief weapons for protecting civilians against nuclear fallout, experts say.

Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.

The remains of more than 2000 people believed to be German civilians killed at the end of the Second World War have been reburied in Poland.

Six people were killed, four of them civilians, he said.

The ultimate test of a democratic transition is whether civilians are in charge of the armed forces.

South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians gathered at the site, some to help, others to loot the dead.

Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife.

In Afghanistan, scores of people, including civilians, were reported to have died in a NATO air strike in the northern province of Kunduz.

To hold their ground and protect endangered civilians, let alone advance, the rebels will likely need air support for quite some time. Mr.

Politicians who chase civilians out of their homes will be liable for prosecution by their domestic courts.

The BBC correspondent there says these groups, some of them undisciplined, are perceived as a threat by civilians.

The report says civilians are increasingly the targets of daily shootings, bombings, murders and abductions as well as military operations.

Although GPS is popular and useful among civilians, they have no guarantee of its working.

But the move has triggered an exodus of nearly two million civilians with some 200, 000 ending up in poorly-equipped makeshift camps.

The volunteers so far have come from the ranks of the military, though civilians are permitted to join the study.

At least five civilians have been killed.

Brigades now exercise in mock Iraqi villages, with thousands of actors playing civilians, Iraqi forces and insurgents.

Civilians who witnessed the troop reinforcement are said to be in fear of war in the near future, sources said.

But the FBI report finds the guards were unjustified in killing at least 14 of the civilians.

The Pentagon is planning to fly home thousands of American military families and civilians from Japan.

Children make obedient and cheap soldiers capable of instilling terror in civilians and opposing forces alike.

Figures given by officials varied greatly; the American security forces said that 34 civilians and Iraqi security forces had been killed.

The latest Taliban suicide bombing took a heavy toll on Afghan civilians, including children.

The vast majority of crusading knights and foot soldiers, as well as civilians who followed them, were filled with genuine religious zeal.

Soldiers were observed to stop unarmed civilians on the road, search them, and finding nothing of value then to shoot them.

Inside there seemed to be a selection of North Korea's most important people: army officers in full uniform and civilians in sharp suits.

The U. N. Security Council voted to authorize military action to protect civilians and impose a no-fly zone over Libya.

The king put the land between the noble, again by noble points to civilians.

American civilians, in turn, had willingly made enormous material sacrifices to sustain the war effort.

Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the UN, said that the resolution was intended to "stop the violence against innocent civilians" .

A spate of bombings in Baghdad and Mosul in Iraq left at least 100 civilians dead and hundreds more wounded.

Clinton stressed U. S. regret over the death of Afghan civilians in a U. S. air attack Monday against Taliban forces.

Were the SEALs prepared to shoot civilians?

Witnesses report shelling and rocket attacks by pro-Gadhafi forces around Misrata port where hundreds of civilians have been hunkering down.

It cannot claim to be protecting local civilians when attacking government forces defending Sirte.

Thousands of civilians have been killed or severely wounded in furious crossfire.

Mr. Karzai said ending strikes on civilians is essential to maintaining public support for the war.

As of this day, I declare that you are all no longer civilians. You are now soldiers.

Medvedev said Russia had achieved its aim in the region and the security of Russian peacekeepers and civilians had been restored.