To save ammunition, they often used bamboo spears instead of bullets.
Police departments have a complicated past with Taser stun guns, which shoot electrified barbs instead of bullets.
"The people had used ballots instead of bullets," Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena told a local radio station on Sunday, according to Reuters.
It is fitting that a pair of former military vehicles may be poised to do battle on the streets of Los Angeles, using buzz instead of bullets.
It requires the player to participate in a digital peace protest, spraying hearts instead of bullets into scenes from the hit combat game "Counter-Strike".
(The Whitney Biennial will feature a video game by the Velvet Strike Team in which the player shoots peace signs instead of bullets).
At first, he experimented with pistols that fire gas instead of bullets (he used one, in fact, the night he was attacked, but to no effect).
Malala, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in October 2012 after campaigning for girls' rights to education, added: "On behalf of the world's children, I demand of our leaders to invest in books instead of bullets.
"Giving money to Hagji instead of bullets just don't seem right," he wrote, apparently misspelling Hajji, a term used by soldiers, often pejoratively, in referring to Arab people.
Professor Matanock's "International Insurance: Why Militant Groups and Governments Compete with Ballots Instead of Bullets," (at Stanford University) asks an interesting and timely question: What are the conditions under which militant groups will participate in post-conflict elections, forming political parties instead of returning to violence?
