The phrase "atrocity happened" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or action that is extremely wicked or cruel, typically in a historical or news context.
Example: "The report detailed the various atrocities that happened during the conflict, shocking the international community."
Alternatives: "atrocity occurred" or "atrocity took place".
The bodies would have been buried by now, with no autopsy or investigation, catalogued only in the minds of those who in this particular atrocity happened to lose a loved one.
While it is impossible to forget such an atrocity happened, Rwandans are keen to separate the past from the present, focusing on what has been achieved since 1994.
Having learned by then about the Holocaust and how that monumental atrocity happened in part because few people spoke up, I would by God speak up, starting with the test case right in my own house.
You don't have to have all the right words or all the perfect answers, but just saying something to the Black and White people you work with -- acknowledging that this atrocity happened and that you're hurt by it -- that really is a start to making a difference.
These horrific events are sure to fuel discussion about how to stop this kind of atrocity happening again.
Even then, it may be hard to grasp the collective sum of human atrocity happening before your eyeballs.
I am British and these atrocities happened under the British government.
(Some of the worst atrocities happened in the provinces, where counter-revolutionaries were lined up and executed by having grapeshot fired at them en masse, with hideous inefficiency).
Nailing him down Very legitimate suspicion Hard on ladies of the night Wooing Marianne Reprints Related items Ex-Yugoslavia: For the prosecutionJul 18th 2002 Balkans war crimes: One brought to justice, many at largeFeb 7th 2002But in late September the prosecution turned to Croatia and to Bosnia, where the worst atrocities happened.
The attack on Malala Yousafzai, who became famous for highlighting Taliban atrocities, happened as she sat in a bus preparing to leave the school grounds in Mingora, the main city in the Swat valley which was the scene of intense fighting between the army and the Taliban in 2009.
