91.   Tamil civilians have been fleeing rebel-held regions of Sri Lanka since the military began a battle to capture the guerrilla headquarters.

92.   The center said houses in four villages in the Podujevo were looted and burned that civilians were fleeing from another five.

93.   The civilians fled to neighboring Congo last week as fighting between the Rwandan army and Hutu rebels escalated.

94.   The defense ministry, meanwhile, said Thursday it would resume its bombing attacks in rebel-held territory and called on civilians to flee the areas.

95.   The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, said they killed many soldiers and that several hundred civilians fled the embattled areas.

96.   There were also sketchy reports Thursday that civilians were fleeing government-held territory in extreme northeast Bosnia in advance of a Bosnian Serb counterattack.

97.   Troops mass on both sides of the border of the breakaway republic of Chechnya on Saturday and civilians flee.

98.   While many civilians fled to the hills outside the city, volunteer fighters in green headbands stayed behind to defend the city.

99.   Villagers who escaped from the fighting disputed Russian military claims that most civilians had fled before the battle began.

100.   With each offensive, more civilians flee, leaving crops untended or unplanted.