21.   It was one of many times during the war when unarmed civilians were victims of army operations.

22.   Krenz says he did nothing wrong, and insists that the end, protecting the sovereignty of East Germany, justified the means, shooting unarmed civilians.

23.   Ms. Woodman argued that the question of fatalities distracted attention from a more important issue, that the army followed orders to carry out a massacre of unarmed civilians.

24.   Ndahiro acknowledged that some unarmed civilians had been killed in recent counter insurgency operations, but he says the numbers are much lower than U.N. investigators have suggested.

25.   Not chain gangs under the watch of gun-toting guards, Alese added, but unshackled prisoners supervised outside the jail by unarmed civilians.

26.   Only a few cases of documented shooting deaths by Israeli troops of unarmed Palestinian civilians have prompted internal investigations, according to the army.

27.   Shortly before midnight, soldiers about three miles west of the square began indiscriminately shooting at unarmed civilians in the street.

28.   Survivors who made their way through the hills to Tuzla after the fall of the enclave described mass executions of hundreds of unarmed civilians.

29.   The Jackson character is accused of killing unarmed civilians who have engaged in a violent demonstration outside the United States Embassy in Yemen.