Sentence examples for major atrocities from inspiring English sources

"The vast majority of the major atrocities being committed in northwestern C.A.R. — the widespread summary executions and other unlawful killings, and the massive burning of villages — have been committed by government troops, not by forces supported by outside elements".

Congo continues to suffer major atrocities, including the rape of thousands of women by armed groups.

Most of "Humanity" is history: an account of the major atrocities of the century.

Fears were mounting of major atrocities in Ivory Coast last night as forces loyal to the Laurent Gbagbo prepared for a last stand in Abidjan.

But he is not personally blamed for any major atrocities, and he has all the apparatus of the state to bolster his cause.Another possibility is Mr Bemba.

The ICTY was given broad jurisdiction, which allowed the court to take up all major atrocities committed in the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

The last major atrocity was triggered by a fight about an indigenous woman that lead to a white dingo trapper being murdered.

Chris Stanley, a member of the legal team at the Belfast firm KRW Law, which represents four of the families, including the Hambletons, said: "This was a major atrocity which was never the subject of a full, independent examination.

He crosses steep mountains that led the conquistadors to Tlaxcala, where Cortés persuaded local Indians to join him against the Aztecs, then turns south to Cholula, scene of Cortés's first major atrocity, the massacre of thousands of Indians.

It's virtually impossible to find a major atrocity in history that didn't have the explicit support or implicit permission of some authoritarian leader.

Mumbai thus joined the Bali attacks in 2002, the Istanbul bombings in 2003, the Beslan and Madrid attacks in 2004 and the London bombings in 2005 in the growing list of major terrorist atrocities since 9/11, 2001.