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atrocity

noun as in cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action

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In September 1922 Hemingway saw wartime atrocities when the Turkish army pushed the fleeing Greeks into the Aegean Sea.

His conscience, he explained, would not allow him to execute prisoners of war who bore no direct responsibility for Confederate atrocities.

During the investigation into the My Lai atrocities, Hersh recalls, his wife, Elizabeth — a psychoanalyst to whom he’s been married for more than 60 years — helped keep him from breaking down.

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A Bangladeshi court remanded in custody on Wednesday 15 high-ranking army officers on charges of enforced disappearances and atrocities committed during the 2024 uprising that toppled the government.

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Right-wing paramilitary groups have been found responsible for massacres, disappearances and other atrocities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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