Sentence examples for it massacred from inspiring English sources

About a year later, Mugabe deployed the North Korean-trained 5 Brigade to Matabeleland, ZAPU's heartland, where it massacred thousands of civilians accused of supporting "dissidents" in what became called Gukurahundi.

The first time I told it" — to a mostly black audience in L.A. — "it massacred to the point where I went, 'There's something real here.' " She told it several more times, in clubs and on TV.

(Just google 'border skirmishes') Secondly, it massacred my compatriots.

In 1995, it massacred 53 people in a shooting spree in a Christian-dominated village.

Rwanda and Mr. Kagame have accused the French military of aiding the government, then Hutu-dominated, as it massacred up to 800,000 Rwandans, mainly Tutsi.

It can't have been a pleasant few weeks for Chinese officials, who found themselves almost alone in representing the junta's interests while it massacred Burmese citizens and the world watched; even the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ordinarily the most hands-off of groups, condemned the internal behavior of a member state.

It was a polyglot city, in which Christians suffered oppression, when, in 1099, armies of the First Crusade took it and massacred nearly all the Muslim and Jewish inhabitants.

One wonders what this country's pagan Celts would have made of it: occupied and massacred by the pagan Romans, then displaced by invading pagan Angles and pagan Saxons who were in turn invaded by the pagan Vikings.

By Ben Taub December 22, 2016 As the citizens of Aleppo either evacuate or are massacred, it is time to stop talking about human-rights violations in Syria and instead describe atrocities in the proper terms: war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Reminiscing about his role in the violent epic Once Upon A Time in the West, Twelve Angry Men's quintessential good guy recalled the film's opening, in which a farming family is massacred; it worked so brilliantly, he said, because the director knew that the minute the camera pulled away from the victims' corpses to reveal the perpetrators, cinema-goers would gasp: "Jesus Christ!

The town was sacked and its inhabitants massacred several times.