Sentence examples for arson and killings from inspiring English sources

Last year, as it did in the 1980s, Mr. Mugabe's loyalists cut off food aid to hungry areas, blocked access to foreign journalists, sent party youth brigades to terrorize the countryside, charged their rivals with treason and used abduction, torture, arson and killings to silence critics.

The condo complex where they live offers a reliable scene of open-air drug dealing, sex work, gang warfare, arson, and killings.

Myanmar officials blamed Rohingya militants for the burning of homes and civilian deaths but rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh say the Myanmar army is trying to force them out with a campaign of arson and killings.

"Troops have been told to use the minimum force necessary to stop arson and killing," said Choudhury.

In Timor-Leste two truth-seeking commissions have looked respectively into the death of 200,000 people during Indonesia's scorched-earth occupation after 1975, and into an orgy of arson and killing by the Indonesian army and its vigilante henchmen after East Timorese voted for independence in 1999.

He was apparently referring to his threat on Thursday to resign unless Mr. Alkatiri, widely blamed for moves that led to weeks of arson attacks and killings, stepped down.

For now, members of the so-called Knights Templar are lying low, challenged by rebelling citizens — including some who have returned to their families' homes from California — finally fed up with unrelenting extortion, kidnapping, arson, rapes and killings.

"There's a link between serial arson and serial killings," he said.

But the same groups have also pointed out that opposition protests, which could shut down the whole country, have involved bombings, arson and the killing of innocent bystanders.

Some of those who "lost" in the civil uprising have experienced vigilante justice at the hands of the NTC's fighters, who have been responsible for looting, arson and extra-judicial killings in pro-Gaddafi towns such as Sirte and Tawargha.

"I am urging the BNP leader to stop these bomb and grenade attacks, these acts of sabotage, and killings, of arson and damage to property," she said in a televised address to the nation.