Sentence examples for large-scale massacres from inspiring English sources

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.

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

More than 100,000 Afghans died, mostly civilians; the Taliban, during their five-year reign in the capital, Kabul, carried out several large-scale massacres of Hazara civilians.

The fate of the disappeared is still unexplained, as is the army's failure to prevent several large-scale massacres of villagers even though it was on the scene.

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.

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.

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).