Sentence examples for major massacres from inspiring English sources

Although all sides were guilty of exces­ses, Hastings writes that the Western allies "behaved significantly better than did the Central Powers": "No major massacres of civilians were ever laid at the door of the British, French or Italians to match those repeatedly committed by the Germans, Austrians and Turks".

There were two major massacres in Wyoming and Idaho.

The last major massacre of Aborigines occurred in 1928, after Walpiri tribesmen on the isolated Coniston station, northwest of Alice Springs, killed a white man.

The last Ḥimyarite king, Dhū Nuwās (Yūsuf Ashʿar; c. 6th century ce), was a convert to Judaism who carried out a major massacre of the Christian population of Yemen.

He was in the first group to reach the Muslim hamlet of Stupni Do after a major massacre by Croatian extremists, and his depiction spares no ghastly detail.

Every year, on April 7th, Kagame presides over a national genocide-commemoration ceremony at one of the major massacre sites that have been preserved as memorials to the victims.

Such essentially military weapons they come in many brands, with the minute distinctions among them a source of excitement to gun fetishists were involved not only in Orlando but in many of the most recent major gun massacres, including San Bernardino, Newtown, and Aurora.

Stalin reacted to the growing strength of Trotsky's supporters with a major political massacre of people within the Soviet Union, and the assassination of Trotsky's supporters and family abroad.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denied allegations that authorities in Turkey facilitated an Islamic State (IS) attack on the Syrian border town of Kobane, which has resulted in what a monitoring group has described as a major civilian massacre.

Daniele's other major paintings include Massacre of the Innocents and David Killing Goliath.

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.