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butchery

noun as in massacre

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Signs of butchery on the bones, along with stone tools and other evidence, indicate that Taguatagua 3 represents a temporary camp established around the task of processing the large carcass.

But prosecution barrister Caroline Carberry KC described the procedures as little more than "human butchery" carried out using household instruments, done for financial reward and for sexual, rather than psychiatric, reasons.

From BBC

But after he kills the king to secure the throne for himself, he becomes an unchecked tyrant, devolving into paranoia and butchery.

“Local meat is expensive. It’s unfortunately become a luxury product, but that isn’t butchers’ fault or reason to unfairly single them out,” said Salim Lamari, the 40-year-old owner of a family butchery east of Algiers.

Which I have, but as I say, butchery is a Disney movie next to this.

From Salon

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