The phrase "atrocities done" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to acts of extreme cruelty or violence that have been committed in the past.
Example: "The report detailed the atrocities done during the war, highlighting the suffering of innocent civilians."
Alternatives: "atrocities committed" or "atrocities carried out".
But to this day, nostalgists for republican Spain avoid dwelling on atrocities done in its name against the clergy.
The officers told him about the atrocities done to children by their parents and guardians, about the suicidal people who jumped from bridges.
The massacres of the crusade were nasty, but as the first holocausts they have strong competition from the atrocities done to Jewish communities in Europe during the First Crusade, what crusaders did in Jerusalem in 1099 after assaulting the city, and what Richard the Lionheart did to his Muslim captives at Acre in 1192.
I had an opportunity to say to the president, 'the atrocities done to a people have not been addressed -- what are you going to do about it?'".
But we are the Muslims who are taking on atrocities done in the name of Islam, at its roots, with religious language.
Author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn was disturbed by the portrayal of Jewish-American soldiers mimicking German atrocities done to European Jews, stating, "In Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino indulges this taste for vengeful violence by well, by turning Jews into Nazis".
But the memory of past atrocities does not depend on the legal label that is pinned on them.
In other words, even once they are under way, mass atrocities do not lead inexorably to bottomless massacres.
It may be that surviving the most horrific atrocities doesn't make you compassionate, but more often makes you hard, and paranoid.
Several historians said yesterday that Mr. Kerry's testimony could be legitimately criticized for greatly exaggerating the frequency of atrocities but that atrocities did occur.
As Al Jazeera reported, following Mr. Conroy's criticism, a Syrian news anchor told viewers: "International journalists who entered Homs in non-legitimate ways, their attempts at covering the so-called massacres in Homs proved these atrocities did not happen.
