massacre
Example Sentences
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Mr. Sharaa’s tensions with the minorities escalated into massacres of Druze and Alawites, with government forces killing more than a thousand people in each community.
The first trial of more than a dozen suspects linked to massacres that left hundreds dead in Syria's Alawite coastal heartland earlier this year began on Tuesday, an AFP journalist in the courtroom said.
From Barron's
The U.S. and Ecuador have designated the Wolves as a terrorist organization, whose thousands of members are allegedly responsible for car bombings, prison massacres and political assassinations.
The killing of Safa's family was part of what became known as the Haditha massacre, when US marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including four women and six children.
From BBC
In what Mr. Hoyos calls “an amoral act of public policy,” Scipio massacred the townspeople of Ilugo for killing survivors of his father’s and uncle’s defeats who had sought refuge there five years earlier.
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