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Eric Bana plays Avner, a Mossad operative sent to hunt down the Palestinians whom Israel holds responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Then Frank and Percy burst into the open and began to massacre every source of fiber they could find.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

Its leaders rejected emigration to Palestine and, after the pogroms and massacres that accompanied Russia’s collapse, went into exile or were crushed by the Soviets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

“There were massacres against Indigenous communities, they were forced to have one religion,” Sheinbaum said last week.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026

According to the UN, around 115,000 people have entered Lebanon from Syria since the fall of Assad, many of them since the sectarian massacres that targeted the Alawite minority on the Syrian coast in March.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

He was one of the more wizened residents on the farm, late from North Carolina and the massacres, and preferred his meat melting soft.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

“Have you ever seen such a thing, Cullen?” my mom asked me as she massacred Caleb Cooper’s seven-year-old head of hair.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

But our current situation — the one that is becoming increasingly harder to ignore — really began about three years ago, when bird flu began spreading rapidly in wild birds, massacring millions of them.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2024

She made it sound as if they were massacring endangered baby eagles.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2019

"You've got to love that" and massacring of the English language.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018

Not the Adams of Founding Father fame, but John Adams when he was a younger man, who in 1770 agreed to defend British soldiers accused of massacring Boston colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2016

"Still, after all your training, it is sad to see him massacring his faithful mentor," said the Honourable John Ruffin.

From Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl by Edgar Jepson