Sentence examples for large massacre from inspiring English sources

A large massacre site in northern Bosnia, discovered and excavated in the past two years, provides a vivid example of the continuing silence.

In the 1820s, a 'very large' massacre is said to have occurred by this lake which you pass when driving down the Federal Highway to Canberra.

It was not unusual for someone to survive or escape from a large massacre — a man told me that his niece was macheted, then stoned, then dumped in a latrine, only to get up each time and stagger away — but Thomas had been deliberately reprieved, and he could not say why.

In fact, while the Army was conducting its internal investigation of My Lai, it discovered that a second large massacre had taken place on the same day in the same area, in a hamlet known as My Khe 4, but Lieutenant General William R. Peers, who had served for more than two years in Vietnam and who led the investigation, publicly denied that there were any other incidents.

The killing field at Tell Brak, about 500 kilometers northeast of Damascus near the Iraqi border, documents what is perhaps the world's oldest known large massacre or organized battle.

Some things served as reminders for almost everyone they surveyed: many of the adolescents, for example, had to walk each day by places where large massacres had occurred.

"There have been no large massacres, air power is being used in a calculated way and he is launching probing attacks" while "making constant efforts in the suburbs of Tripoli to check small gestures of dissent".

They confirm nothing, answer no questions, make few official statements and very rarely give figures.Even the large massacres in 1997 and 1998, during which hundreds of people were slaughtered in night-time attacks, have somehow been consigned to a black hole of oblivion.

Even if the Hema have received help from Ugandans, the Lendu do not appear to be helpless victims: Lendu warriors have carried out large massacres, banding together in well-organized groups wearing sneakers and soccer uniforms, killing women and children, and mutilating corpses.

As a result, the ANC perpetrated a number of large massacres of Luba civilians.

But El Mozote may well have been the largest massacre in modern Latin-American history.