The reports of civilian massacres were alleged to have occurred during the previous three years (1998-2001).

Its campaign to overthrow the Algerian government included civilian massacres, sometimes wiping out entire villages in its area of operation.

They could at least have raised at the United Nations the question of civilian massacres.

Thus, civilian massacres by the South's authorities cannot be justified in any sense.

Kim was known as a confessor of some civilian massacres of the Vietnam War.

The Taninga attack was the latest in a series of civilian massacres by Renamo.

In Vietnam he was responsible for "clean-up," erasing the proof of civilian massacres and burying the dead.

The fighting and the civilian massacres have resumed.

This would prevent further civilian massacres and give the pro-democracy rebels a real chance.

They insist that Government troops carried out the civilian massacres, but Western diplomats here say they have seen no evidence of this.