Aslan Maskhadov, overall commander of the Chechen separatist rebels, said he had ordered his fighters to withdraw "to avoid further victims among the two sides and among peaceful civilians."

On Aug. 25 FPR radio claimed that Habyarimana's party, the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development, was "indulging in the odious slaughter of peaceful, innocent and defenceless civilians".

Withdrawal is usually accomplished using a variety of different routes and methods and may include quickly scouring the area for loose weapons, evidence cleanup, and disguise as peaceful civilians.

Usman Imayev, who represented the Chechen leadership under Dzhokhar M. Dudayev at the talks, asserted that the Russian delegation, which left the meeting first, "is not yet ready to stop murdering peaceful civilians."

They shot peaceful civilians in cold blood.

"As the actions of the hooligans were a threat to life and safety of peaceful civilians and the policemen, the police were forced to use their weapons," the statement said.

The place became a center of Makapili and spies who troubled the peaceful civilians.

The inhuman terrorist attacks on hospitals, hotels and other public places aimed at killing peaceful civilians, taking and murdering hostages are crimes directed against the very basis of civilised society.

We watched real time as the peaceful, unarmed civilians were violently attacked and shot by fascist police on orders from the Mayor who got her orders from her corporate masters.

The officer, Maj. Gen. Ivan Babichev, told weeping Chechen women: "It is forbidden to use the army against peaceful civilians.