11.   But survivors of massacres have told of unarmed civilians being blindfolded and executed in droves by Bosnian Serb soldiers.

12.   By laying out his role on his own terms, he has taken the initiative away from lawyers for the soldiers accused of opening fire on unarmed civilians.

13.   Chernomyrdin has made it clear from the start that any settlement would include armed observers, not simply unarmed civilians as Belgrade first demanded.

14.   Each time the guerrillas have struck, the army has retaliated, often killing unarmed civilians in their efforts to flush out the enemy.

15.   He also called for a no-fly-zone in Kosovo to halt helicopter attacks against unarmed civilians.

16.   Hassassian and other residents said Israeli soldiers and snipers were firing on unarmed civilians, crushing cars and destroying homes during searches.

17.   Human-rights monitors estimate that thousands of unarmed Hutu civilians have been killed by these soldiers during counterinsurgency campaigns in the northwest this year.

18.   However, a seventh member of the team, Gerhard Klann, charges that they herded unarmed civilians into a group and gunned them down.

19.   In addition, the killings of unarmed civilians by soldiers may only work to swell the guerrilla ranks.

20.   In response, government troops have taken increasingly repressive measures to stamp out the insurgents, killing dozens of unarmed civilians in the process.