31.   Many residents who tried to see what was happening were beaten with rifle butts.

32.   Nahas, who was badly beaten with a rifle butt during the hijacking, said his assailants appeared to have had a more prolonged assault in mind.

33.   Northern Alliance soldiers were shown beating away desperate refugees with sticks and rifle butts, trying to keep order.

34.   One reporter, Jonathan Head of the BBC, was beaten with a rifle butt, although he was not seriously injured.

35.   One man was clubbed to the ground with a rifle butt, then hacked to death with machetes a few yards from the U.N. gate.

36.   Police officers restrained them with riot batons and rifle butts as they cheered and threw flowers.

37.   Sanchez was slammed in the head by a rifle butt in the raid.

38.   Serbian survivors said Muslim soldiers entered the base at night and beat prisoners with clubs, rifle butts, wooden planks, shovels and pieces of cable.

39.   Shots were fired and Collins was killed, then struck in the face with a rifle butt.

40.   Spent gun casings littered the cobblestones, and witnesses said the police fired their rifles into the air and used rifle butts to beat back the crowd.