Sentence examples for large-scale massacre from inspiring English sources

The attack was the second large-scale massacre of civilians attributed to Boko Haram in less than two weeks.

"No longer will it go down in history that such a large-scale massacre happened and nobody paid a price.

The reported exodus came after activists yesterday accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime of committing a "large-scale massacre" in nearby Bayda.

It wasn't until the 1960s, for example, that the term "holocaust," which used to mean any large-scale massacre, took on the specific connotations it has today.

Tensions over Japan's wartime atrocities were revived last week when nationalist groups held a conference in Osaka at which revisionist historians and others gave speeches denying that there had been any large-scale massacre at Nanjing and disparaging Japan's critics.

In modernity, after all, even those wars that seem necessary and good involve the large-scale massacre of helpless civilians, often by the good guys (as with the Allied bombings of German cities, not to mention Hiroshima).

By some estimates the proceedings may last at least another year, and it will include the large-scale massacres of civilians.

Although the regime's capacity to commit large-scale massacres has shrunk, Gaddafi's defeat will come at a high cost in terms of human life.

An investigator for Human Rights Watch told Congress today that his group had documented three "large-scale massacres" by Russian forces in Chechnya.

Somalia traumatized the West, especially the United States, in such a way that the United Nations remained paralyzed in the face of large-scale massacres in Rwanda in 1994.

Meanwhile, the rising tide of feeling against the Igbo in the Northern region led to large-scale massacres of Igbos by northerners in May September 1966.