A series of forced evacuations and delineation of risk zones in Montserrat avoided the mass casualties of Martinique, but on 25 June 1997, 19 people returning to the exclusion zone were killed by pyroclastic flows (see Figure 1).
In coal mine fires, a reasonable path should be selected to avoid the heavy casualties on account of this requirement, coupled with the characteristics of the mine fire and miner behaviors.
The exhausted soldiers made their way back to the front, but it was slow going through the frozen trenches, as they were forced to avoid the bodies of casualties and the heavy shelling.
The cruise missiles fired into Afghanistan at Osama bin Laden's men after the bombing of American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 were weapons chosen to avoid the risk of American casualties, not ensure the destruction of terrorists.
But she was unable to avoid the occasional casualty.
The Navy emphasized that it was taking time to carefully prepare the casualty tally to avoid the release of painful misinformation.
Written by former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson with the help of McGeorge Bundy, the article stressed that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were used to avoid the possibility of "over a million casualties", from a figure found in the estimates given to the Joint Chiefs of Staff by its Joint Planning Staff in 1945.
The battalion's commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel E.H. Trotter, killed by a shell on 8 July, intentionally underestimated the battalion's casualties of about 500 to avoid the deployment of brigade reserves.
But Amnesty believes the number of civilian and child casualties reveals that Israeli forces hardly tried to avoid the deaths of non-combatants.
"There are constraints on doing that because of the stated desire to avoid civilian casualties, the technical limits of air power and even the weather," the official said.
