Men who tried to rescue them were shot down.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Protesters were shot, beaten and stabbed.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

The United Nations and local human rights groups say 157 people were shot dead during the rally at a Conakry stadium.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

In February,in what was seen as one of the most brutal attacks on Roma, police said Robert Csorba and his five-year-old son were shot dead when they tried to flee their home that was set on fire.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

Officials say he shot at unarmed soldiers and civilians as troops were preparing for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

This week,six bodies returned, five of them shot and killed by an Afghan policeman they were supposed to be training.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Interior Minister Jean-Francois Ndongou told French state radio that two people killed overnight in Port Gentil were looters shot by a home owner.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

In 2007 elections were held, but less than a year later rebel soldiers shot President Jose Ramos-Horta.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Yet they abandoned those they were responsible for, they were supposed to protect, and abandoned them even before any shot was fired at them."

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

"They shot me down, they shot me down," were the last words that he said.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"But the real heroes that day were those 32 men that after they saw their comrades, the first four me on the boat cut in halfor shot to pieces, two very severely and two dead, they still climbed over the bodies and did their job."

VOA: standard.2009.06.02