In August 2012 UN investigators released Publishing a report Reporting which stated Statement that it was likely that Syrian troops and Shabiha militia were responsible for the massacre Killing , concluding Coming_to_believe that : `` On the basis of available evidence , the commission has a reasonable basis to believe that the perpetrators of the deliberate killing Killing of civilians , at both the Abdulrazzak and Al-Sayed family locations , were aligned to the Government .

The fifteen nations of the U.N. Security Council unanimously condemned Judgment_communication the Syrian government for firing Use_firearm heavy weapons at civilians .

The Raid at Cabanatuan ( Filipino : ) , also known as The Great Raid ( Filipino : ) , was a rescue Rescuing of Allied prisoners of war ( POWs ) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City , in the Philippines .

The Japanese shifted Removing most of the prisoners to other areas , leaving just over 500 American and other Allied POWs and civilians in the prison .

Both robbers were killed Killing , twelve police officers and eight civilians were injured Bodily_harm , and numerous vehicles and other property were damaged Damaging or destroyed Destroying by the nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the robbers and police .

The densely crowded area saw some 500-1000 deaths Death and up to 20,000 civilians made Manufacturing homeless in the cross-fire Hostile_encounter .

The area was a hotbed for insurgent activity including the kidnapping Kidnapping and killing Killing of civilians and soldiers .

Operation Mistral 2 resulted in Causation the deaths Death of hundreds of Bosnian Serb civilians , as well as the displacement of tens of thousands of others .

News of the demolitions Destroying and the deplorable condition of French civilians left GiveUp behind by the Germans were serious blows Confronting_problem to German prestige in neutral countries .

A total of 13,952 people were killed Killing during the siege , including 5,434 civilians .

The rebelling Change_of_leadership BDR soldiers took over Military_operation the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana , killing Killing the BDR Director-General Shakil Ahmed along with 56 other army officers and 17 civilians .

They also fired Use_firearm on civilians , held Arrest many of their officers and their families hostage , vandalised Destroying property and looted Robbery valuables .

In 2017 , one of the alleged perpetrators , Michael Hayes , also claimed Statement that the intention of the bombings Attack had not been to harm civilians , and that their deaths Death had been caused Causation by an unintentional delay in delivering Sending an advance telephone warning Warning to security services Supply .

This represents one of the largest mass arrest Arrest of civilians since at least the Second World War Hostile_encounter , possibly one of the biggest in English legal history .

About 60 people were killed Killing in the confrontations Violence ; most were Jamaat-Shibir activists , and others were police and civilians .

Several hundred Chechen rebel Attack fighters and civilians and more than 50 Russian servicemen were killed Killing in the course of more than two weeks of siege Besieging warfare Hostile_encounter .

A number of civilians died Death from torture Bodily_harm , and the village was looted Robbery and completely destroyed Destroying .

The Court reaffirmed Statement that to an extent , crimes against civilians had taken place Process_start , but ruled Using that specific genocidal intent was not present Presence .

An unknown person threw Self_motion a dynamite bomb Attack at the police as they acted to disperse Dispersal the meeting Social_event , and the bomb Attack blast Attack and ensuing gunfire Use_firearm resulted in Causation the deaths Death of seven police officers and at least four civilians ; dozens of others were wounded Bodily_harm .

NOPD Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann was acquitted of assaulting civilians who came to Motion Glover 's aid Assistance , as well as obstructing Hindering a federal investigation through the burning Bodily_harm of Glover 's body in a 2000 Chevy Malibu .

Some Chechen separatists also carried out attacks Attack against civilians in Russia .

Unofficial sources estimate a range from 25,000 to 50,000 dead or missing , mostly civilians in Chechnya .

The creation of the Security Zone in South Lebanon benefited Influence civilian Israelis , although at great cost Cost to Palestinian and Lebanese civilians .

It was also a refuge for over 30,000 civilians fleeing Escaping the fighting Hostile_encounter in Aleppo .

Of the 70 fatalities , most were Pakistani civilians .

The victims also included Cause_to_be_included some Indian civilians and three railway policemen .

since then , the conflict Violence resulted in Causation the deaths Death of more than 1,000 people , including police and security officers , members of the armed Bearing_arms forces Military_operation , spanish politicians , journalists and civilians and some eta members .

The Khaibalikend massacre was a mass and indiscriminate killing Killing of Armenian civilians in the villages of Khaibalikend , Jamillu , Karkujahan and Pahliul in the Nagorno–Karabakh , from June 5 to 7 , 1919 .

The Coastal Road massacre Attack of 1978 was an attack Attack involving the hijacking Kidnapping of a bus on Israel 's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians , including 13 children , were killed Killing , and 71 were wounded Bodily_harm .

Militant rocketry also killed Killing 13 Gazan civilians , 11 of them children .

67 Israeli soldiers , 5 Israeli civilians ( including one child ) and one Thai civilian were killed Killing and 469 IDF soldiers and 261 Israeli civilians were injured Bodily_harm .

67 Israeli soldiers , 5 Israeli civilians ( including one child ) and one Thai civilian were killed Killing and 469 IDF soldiers and 261 Israeli civilians were injured Bodily_harm .

The Sinai insurgency is an ongoing conflict Hostile_encounter in the Sinai Peninsula , Egypt , between Islamist militants and Egyptian security forces , which has included attacks Attack on civilians .

since the start Process_start of the conflict Hostile_encounter , dozens of civilians were killed Killing either in military operations or kidnapped Kidnapping and then beheaded Killing by militants .

On 9 October 2014 Indian media claimed Statement that a total of 9 military personal and 6 civilians were killed Killing on Pakistani side .

In addition , between 150,000 and 200,000 Polish civilians died Death , mostly from mass executions Rewards_and_punishments .

The victims were police and civilians , including police families .

In two separate incidents Catastrophe during the manhunt , police shot at three civilians unrelated to Dorner , mistaking their pickup trucks for the vehicle being driven Motion by Dorner .

One of the civilians was hit Attack by the police gunfire , another was wounded Bodily_harm by shattered glass , and a third individual was injured Bodily_harm when police rammed Motion his vehicle and opened Action fire .

The civilians managed to flee Escaping the combat zones , and this reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale civilian casualties Death , while swelling Expansion the number of internally displaced people ( IDP ) .

However , according to the Egyptian Health Ministry , 638 people were killed Killing on 14 August ( of which 595 were civilians and 43 police officers ) and at least 3,994 were injured Bodily_harm .

members of the ulster volunteer force ( uvf ) , a loyalist paramilitary group , burst into a pub with assault rifles and fired Use_firearm on the customers , killing Killing six civilians and wounding Bodily_harm five .

The attack killed Killing seven and wounded Bodily_harm over 200 Croatian civilians and was carried out Attack on 2 May and 3 May 1995 as retaliation Revenge for the Croatian army 's offensive in Operation Flash .

There were also gun battles Hostile_encounter between republicans and police , and it is claimed Statement that some police patrols Patrolling fired Use_firearm indiscriminately at Catholic civilians .

It also spun Motion off a tornado that passed Motion_directional through the center of the capital , setting down Motion_directional on Constitution Avenue and lifting Motion two cannons before dropping Motion them several yards away , killing Killing British troops and American civilians alike .

The Mỹ Lai Massacre ( ; ) was the Vietnam War mass murder Killing of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District , South Vietnam , on 16 March 1968 .

Initially , three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the massacre and rescue Rescuing the hiding civilians were shunned , and even denounced Judgment_communication as traitors by several U.S .

Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in South Korea 18 years earlier , Mỹ Lai was one of the largest publicized massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century .

During the operation , four civilians were killed Killing by the British Army , at least 78 people were wounded Bodily_harm and 337 were arrested Arrest .

The international community considers indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian structures that do not discriminate between civilians and military targets as illegal under international law .