11.   The government claims the villages are razed by Kurdish guerrillas disguised as soldiers to discredit the military.

12.   The picture-postcard villages were razed and the people herded off to live in cities, virtual urban prisoners, their plight largely ignored.

13.   The plan to have the military fire on the homes with tanks and raze the villages was first broached by President Alexander Lukashenko in August.

14.   Thieves sabotaging an oil pipeline touched off an inferno that razed several villages and destroyed a swath of surrounding cropland, witnesses and officials said Sunday.

15.   Thieves sabotaging a trans-national oil pipeline touched off an inferno that razed several villages and destroyed a swath of surrounding cropland, witnesses and officials said Sunday.

16.   Turkey is accused of razing villages and forcing evacuations in its fight against Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey.

17.   Villagers say fights could erupt again Wednesday if the government tries razing the village while compensation remains unsettled.

18.   Villages are razed.

19.   Both the federation and UN officials in Zagreb have also accused the army of razing villages during its sweep through Krajina.

20.   The Serbs carried out a scorched earth policy, razing whole villages from the map and obliterating mosques and churches by turning their sites into parking lots.