Sentence examples for Massacre from inspiring English sources
noun
The killing of a considerable number where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms.
- St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Ndiaga Seck, associate information officer with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in the North Kivu provincial capital of Goma, said LRA attacks have decreased since December's massacre in Makombo, but people were still living with host families, unwilling to return home.
But reports of the massacre were coming through and as the world's media focused its attention on Paris, some questioned why events in Nigeria were almost ignored.
Amnesty International described as the terror group's "deadliest massacre" to date, and local defence groups said they had given up counting the bodies left lying on the streets.
He was arrested in 2014 in the runup to the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, after attending a seminar about the crackdown with journalists, lawyers, scholars and activists.
"If people have just seen a TV report on a massacre in Palestine, it's not easy to convince them.
This was not just a reference to the second world war, but also to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris in January; his speech was meant as a salutary call to arms against future conflict in French society.
Situated on the northern tip of South America, Guyana sometimes seems like the underbelly of the Caribbean, the muddy cousin of Latin America, known better for the Jim Jones massacre than for its hidden rainbows.
Three weeks after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo and the march in Paris which was supposed to display international solidarity over the right of free expression, a court in Turin is about to test the limits of free speech in Italy.
However, of all the issues on which Nemtsov was outspoken, his stance on the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and massacre was not something he was particularly known for – he wrote just one short blog post on the issue.
At least 67 people – some fighters but many civilians – were killed in a night of intense violence in Shujai'iya that has been described by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, as a massacre.
