massacre
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Grassroots and volunteer organizations have been founded for visiting the wounded in hospitals, caring for children who lost parents, helping rebuild war-affected areas and many other causes related to the massacre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
To survivors of the Srebrenica massacre, the death of former Bosnian Serb military leader and war criminal Ratko Mladic changes little about his legacy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Later, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, wrote that responsibility lay "first and foremost with those who planned and carried out the massacre".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Damon’s Odysseus is numbed by the massacre of Troy’s civilians; Fiennes’ hates himself for leading the best men of Ithaca to their death, gutting his own community in the heedless destruction of another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
She was resettling people from our massacre, and she needed to make sure the right people were being relocated.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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“This work will continue for many, many years,” said Popek, who lost his grandfather and more than 20 other relatives in the massacres and has been doing exhumations in the Ukrainian region for 35 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
European officials and their counterparts in both Poland and Ukraine warn that the rift over the World War II massacres serves neither side.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Nazhat Shameem Khan told the BBC the ICC had reached a "breakthrough" in its investigation into the massacres of civilians in the cities of el-Fasher and el-Geneina.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The 57-year-old said he had been studying in Zurich when the war broke out, and had been driven to return to Kosovo after seeing massacres of ethnic Albanians in his country.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
In America, we live in a world where Kim Kardashian dominates the news, not massacres in Africa.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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The tension on “The French Chef” was about a massacred bûche de noël or whether that roast-chicken-to-come was being abused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
During a session on Iran's record, Bahreini urged the UN's top rights body to instead discuss the Iranian cultural heritage under "indiscriminate" attack and "the innocent children massacred at their school desks".
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
We’re living in such a different time with social media now, but back then, thanks to these brave journalists, there were physical representations of civilians being massacred, innocent families.
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2024
‘Clarisse, I get your point. But have you studied Roman engineering? Their temporary camp is better defended than Camp Half-Blood. Attack them at their base, and we’d be massacred.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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The Sri Lankan army spokesman, Brigadier Waruna Gamage rejects allegations that security forces buried civilians after massacring them.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
But in 2024, officials confirmed that the virus had jumped from birds to cows to humans, all while massacring millions of wild animals and tearing through dairy and poultry farms across the country.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2025
She made it sound as if they were massacring endangered baby eagles.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2019
“Yes, Uber is bringing in new technology. Yes, it’s creating jobs. But at what cost? The cost of massacring others through unfair competition.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2015
The Clonmacnoise Manifesto, inviting the Irish "not to be deceived with any show of clemency exercised upon them hitherto," hardly supports the diatribes against Cromwell's "massacring" propensities.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
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