1.   Feverish men shoveled red earth onto the corpse and African chants, and Muslim prayers mingled with the wailing of the women in the heaving crowd.

2.   He was joined on his mission of shoveling earth and planting seeds by defense ministers Pavel Grachev of Russia and Valery Shmarov of Ukraine.

3.   Bulldozers shoveled earth over bodies, which were later dug up and removed to mass graves, the indictment said.

4.   His two young sons went on hurriedly shoveling earth to form the narrow dikes for poppy plots.

5.   Workmen then shoveled earth onto the coffins, and the wails of distraught relatives grew until their cries were muffled by the motor of a bulldozer finishing the job.