In front of the National Monument, protesters lined the grass with symbolic tombstones honoring soldiers and civilians killed in recent U.S.military action.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Shots were fired. Four soldiers and twelve civilians were killed.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The blast also wounded 52 civilians and four Italian soldiers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Secretary Clinton is also scheduled to make a brief visit to Goma in eastern Congo, where government soldiers in North and South Kivu provinces have been accused of mass looting and raping countless civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31