Sentence examples for a string of massacres from inspiring English sources

BEIRUT, Lebanon — At least 30 Shiite Muslim villagers in eastern Syria were killed in a reprisal raid by rebels, the government and opposition fighters and activists said Wednesday, the latest in a string of massacres underscoring the increasingly sectarian nature of the Syrian conflict.

"There are no good memories of Mr Sharon for the Palestinian people," said politician Mustafa Barghouti, saying he was responsible for a string of massacres and sought to destroy the possibility of a Palestinian state by building Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Amid a string of massacres and mass abductions, the militants' night raid on a girls boarding school in Chibok in April of that year stood out as a particular calamity.

One area Clinton has set herself apart from Sanders is her support for gun control — an issue thrown back in the spotlight after a string of gun massacres, including two school shootings last week.

His record both in Rwanda starting in 1990 and in the DRC starting in 1996 is a long string of massacres, extermination, ethnic cleansing and even genocide, according to the UN Mapping Exercise report of October 1, 2010.

The killings in Sasun provoked an international outcry, which was answered with the Sultan's usual promises of reform, and then with a string of even bloodier massacres in the provinces of Erzurum, Ankara, Sivas, Trabzon, and Harput.

A string of regime-organised sectarian massacres in 2012 irretrievably hardened the mood.

He achieved almost nothing on the battlefield other than a string of calamities including the massacre of 80 of his Arab fighters by pro-Soviet Afghan troops.

The north of Kenya, which is primarily settled by Kenyan Somalis, has been the scene of a string of attacks, including the massacre of dozens of bus passengers in November.

The reality is that after the recent string of massacres, starting in Colorado, America is getting extremely tired of senseless shootings, and even more tired of the reckless attitude of gun rights advocates who choose to ignore the gun violence sweeping our nation.

Members of the United Nations monitoring staff were able to gather some evidence in the aftermath of a May 25 massacre in Houla — a string of villages in western Syria, in which 108 people were killed, nearly half of them children — that pointed to complicity by pro-Assad militia members and soldiers.