1.   Military prosecutors have brought charges in only eight alleged crimes against Chechen civilians.

2.   Several thousand soldiers desert every year, and military prosecutors, knowing the conditions, are reluctant to punish them.

3.   Another official said the new approach would allow military prosecutors to charge some captives even without evidence from witnesses or documents that they committed war crimes.

4.   As in civilian trials, military prosecutors and defense attorneys are allowed to ask a judge to remove potential jurors because they may lack impartiality.

5.   Abuses of that authority are investigated by military prosecutors and tried under the secrecy of military courts.

6.   After the attack, the panel demanded that Rushailo, the interior minister, and the military prosecutor report on why the debacle occurred.

7.   But military prosecutors said they found no evidence of criminal violations on the part of soldiers.

8.   But the evidence that military prosecutors could use would not be as limited as that used against civilian defendants.

9.   Despite numerous accounts of pillaging, beatings and killings by Russian troops in Chechnya, only a handful of cases have been investigated by military prosecutors.

10.   Duran was driving, according to six or seven soldiers who witnessed the incident, the former military prosecutor said.