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Jafari fled Iraq after Hussein carried out a purge that executed thousands of Dawa members and their families.
A cameraman captured Gen. Ratko Mladic in 1995 telling Muslim refugees they would be safe just days before his soldiers executed thousands of them.
Other documents showed that Mr. Waldheim had served as a staff officer with a large military unit that executed thousands of Partisans and noncombatants in Montenegro and eastern Macedonia, and killed Allied commandos who had been taken prisoner.
But he was a lieutenant in army intelligence attached to German military units that executed thousands of Yugoslav partisans and civilians and deported thousands of Greek Jews to death camps between 1942 and 1944.
Yes indeed, the Iran that executed thousands of its own citizens, held 53 Americans hostage for 444 days in the U.S. Embassy, the same Iran that boasts of its infiltration of Bosnia, that killed Jews in Buenos Aires and almost daily sends to Damascus a planeload of weapons and funds for terrorists around the world.
The Romans executed thousands of Christian martyrs but the resurrection of Jesus gave people renewed hope.
Together, the two powers executed tens of thousands of Polish civilians, many of them educated people.
Habré ran a vicious security state, with secret detention centers, that tortured and executed tens of thousands of its citizens.
But the guerrillas kidnapped and massacred thousands of innocent civilians; the narcos blew up thousands with their car bombs; and the army executed hundreds of young people from poor neighborhoods to make the public believe they were guerrillas.
He has an aggressively rightwing, anti-crime platform, espouses homophobic views and has lauded the military dictatorship that ran Brazil from 1964 to 1985 which executed hundreds of its opponents and brutally tortured thousands more, including Rousseff, a former Marxist guerilla.
Isis has recently executed hundreds of Albu Nimr tribespeople in Anbar, a blow to US ambitions to turn the Sunni tribes against Isis in a reprieve of the 2006-2008 Sunni Awakening.
