massacres in English
the attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre
In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured.
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1. I am tired of pointless massacres.
2. Its pages are bloodied by religious wars, massacres and persecutions.
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5. As the war mounted, we received less information about the massacres.
6. David did not subject the defeated Ammonites to barbarous torture and gruesome massacres.
7. The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres
8. Synonyms for Butcherings include destruction, annihilation, extinction, obliteration, exterminations, liquidation, massacres, slaughter, eradications and ruin
9. Though the great majority of the populace profess to be Christian, intertribal massacres were launched.
10. Serbian and Croatian hostility in the Balkans was aggravated by massacres of civilians during the second world war.
11. These include massacres and dislocation of civilians in the name of rooting out supposed guerrilla sympathizers.
12. To minimize risks, they would not be required to disarm the several militia groups responsible for recent massacres.
13. It was more like guerrilla warfare, Bushwhackings and massacres, labels that differed depending on which side you were on
14. However, there were also massacres of Armenians in 1894, 1895, 1896, 1909, and a reprise between 1920 and 1923
15. Somehow the Aboriginals have managed to survive military onslaught and massacres as well as deliberate poisoning and even testing
16. The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium Of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres And Mayhem From The Big Bang To The …
17. It was more like guerrilla warfare, Bushwhackings and massacres, labels that differed depending on which side you were on
18. Ashkenazi Jews continued to build communities in Germany until they faced riots and massacres in the 1200s and 1300s
19. The Churches and the sects had devastated Europe, engineered massacres, demanded religious resistance or revolution, attempted to excommunicate or to depose monarchs.”
20. 9 Stoke City were this week's roadkill and, if anything, this ruthless execution was more minatory than any number of six-goal massacres.
21. The Adana Massacre was the second series of large-scale massacres of Armenians to break out in the Ottoman Empire
22. For I must talk of murthers, rapes, and massacres Acts of black nights, Abominable deeds Complots of mischiefs, treason, villainies
23. Their determination to win at any cost, brought world criticism as the details of massacres such as Mai Lai emerged.
24. Security forces have committed massacres, rape, looting, and mass burnings of homes and property, causing the flight of more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees to Bangladesh.
25. Some of the captured soldiers took part in the Machecoul Massacres and a quarter of them were executed for retribution by Charette's troops, against his orders.
26. It's much better to have ultra-violence, chainsaw massacres, X-rated Draculas, and continents sinking into the sea with the entire population lost, at the very least.
27. The sites of prior school massacres are etched on our minds, a symbolic shorthand for the violence and malevolence that none of us can comprehend.
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29. The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium Of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres And Mayhem From The Big Bang To The New Millennium [Flexner, Doris, Flexner, Stuart Berg] on Amazon.com
30. The poshest hotels and some of the most prominent watering holes for tourists and the rich became charnel houses in massacres that threatened to undermine India's astonishing economic growth.
31. Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar or Babin Yar; Russian: Бабий Яр, Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews.
32. The deportation of the Circassians can certainly be regarded as an example of ‘ethnic cleansing’, in which massacres and the burning of villages served to force the Circassians into emigration
33. Books written about the massacres in Yangzhou, Jiading and Jiangyin were later republished by anti-Qing authors to win support in the leadup to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution.
34. The Amhara massacre and internal displacement is a day to day news in Ethiopia under the EPRDF rule.The Arbagugu and Bedeno massacres of Amharas in what is called Oromia region are prime examples
35. Another group of Crusaders, led by the notorious Count Emicho, carried out a series of massacres of Jews in various towns in the Rhineland in 1096, drawing widespread outrage and causing a major
36. His strategy was to offer generous terms for surrender: there would be no massacres or looting; historic urban privileges were retained; there was a full pardon and amnesty; return to the Catholic Church would be gradual.
37. Poor copy Complete title: Indian Battles: with incidents in the Early History of New England; containing thrilling and stirring narratives of battles, captivities, escapes, Ambuscades,assaults, massacres, and depredations of the Indians; the habits, customs, and traits of
38. Cheka massacres of the Whites and anyone else suspected of disloyalty to the Soviet regime were most often conducted in unstable areas which were often seized in turn by opposing sides–for example, Siberia, the Volga region, southern Russia, and the territory of modern Ukraine.
39. The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia,123456789101112 also known as the massacres of Georgians in Abkhazia1314 and genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia (Georgian language: ქართველთა გენოციდი აფხაზეთში ) (according to Georgian sources)15 — refers to ethnic cleansing,16 massacres17 and forced
40. Indian battles : with incidents in the early history of New England; containing thrilling and stirring narratives of battles, captivities, escapes, Ambuscades,assaults, massacres, and depredations of the Indians; the habits, customs, and traits of character peculiar to the Indian race; the life and exploits of Capt
41. How swell that in the Old West of gunfights and land grabs, massacres and gold rushes, Bushwhackings and horsewhippings, missions, saloons, boot hills, and forts, there existed a culture that celebrated with artistic eloquence and spiritual fervor the most intimate feature of the feminine anatomy.
42. Kagame also desired this, both to increase the resources of Rwanda by adding those of the Kivu region, and also to add the Tutsi population, which the Banyamulenge represented, back into Rwanda, thereby reinforcing his political base and protecting the indigenous Tutsis living there, who had also suffered massacres from the Interhamwe.