An army truck had accidently hit and killed civilians.

And another is whether the allies can reduce the risk of hitting civilians without hampering their attacks on Serbian forces.

Elsewhere, they hit civilians with their rifle butts to drive them off.

The suspect fired repeatedly back at Officer White, who did not return his fire for fear of hitting innocent civilians.

After the statement, a video tape was shown in which police hit civilians with batons.

Great care would be taken to avoid hitting innocent civilians.

But he added that they were very afraid of "bombs hitting civilians."

As they said, not wanting to hit civilians, they fled to Italy.

We don't plan to hit innocent civilians," he said, "and we'll act only when the conditions are right for a surgical strike at the shooters.

At the same time, however, it is obvious that the West's reactions and sanctions have failed totally, hitting civilians instead of the dictatorship.