The city was then placed under military curfew.

American military curfews are a tool used by commanders at various installations to shape the behavior of soldiers.

Soon after the rapes and other instances, the peninsula wide military curfew was reinstated.

The town is under a military curfew, and the first group of journalists was allowed to visit today to view the damage.

"Everyone assumed they would start drafting people to enforce the military curfew."

But we are under a military curfew, under martial law," the officer said.

The military curfew is lifted for four hours every three days.

The military curfew was news to him and he listened carefully, thoughtfully, trying to calculate what it all meant.

The army has made military curfews, travel restrictions and armed searches central features of Palestinian life.

It also imposed a military curfew on Cork city, which began at 10 each night.