Men lay flat on the ground. They prayed for the shelling to stop.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

A U.N.spokesman expressed concern about reports that government shelling has killed civilians.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The shelling continued all day.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The rebels blame military shelling for killing 2,000 people in the sliver of coastal land in the northeast it still holds.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Thus,he says,it is not possible to ascertain who is responsible for the shelling or to make a definitive casualty count.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

"Everyone is half-dead. It does not matter if you shell them because you are shelling a dead body."

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

The military has acknowledged the deaths of at least 250 people in the shelling, but denies responsibility.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

It also listed reports of government forces shelling nominal safe-haven areas for Tamil civilians, killing rebels trying to surrender, and allowing dismal humanitarian conditions to prevail in displaced-person camps.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The army has been accused of shelling inside the "no-fire zone,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

An honorary guard looked on as officials placed wreaths at the foot of the monument to the defenders of Westerplatte at 4:45 am local time, the exact time that the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began shelling this tiny Polish military outpost.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Tieger said he will call various witnesses,from insiders who worked with Karadzic to international workers to victims, to prove Karadzic was part of a joint criminal enterprise whose goal was to remove non-Serbs from part of Bosnia, that he did it systematically through murder,extermination, shelling,detaining people and even genocide.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27