Sentence examples for mass hangings from inspiring English sources

But reports about the regime's campaign of secret and mass hangings of prisoners have made it impossible for Amnesty to publish the true figures there too.

Amnesty has estimated that officials at Saydnaya carried out periodic mass hangings and that, between September, 2011, and December, 2015, they killed as many as thirteen thousand people.

New research by a British Historian, Dr. Alexander Watson of Goldsmiths college, University of London, is about to reveal the horrendous scale of mass hangings of civilians by the Austro-Hungarian military.

The Johnson book quotes witness accounts of mass hangings of prisoners and innocent Mexicans and Tejanos, some of the bodies desecrated "with empty beer bottles stuck in their mouths".

In the grimmest fortress in Iraq's gulag, on the desert floor 20 miles west of Baghdad, this appeared to be the grimmest corner of all, the place of mass hangings that have been a documented part of life under Saddam Hussein.

The seats were all pointed at an old school gym apparatus, which could easily be misappropriated for mass hangings.

In March, six Sunnis were put to death in Iran in a mass hanging.

Lincoln oversaw the largest mass hanging in US history: of 38 Sioux Indians in Mankato, Minnesota, on 26 December , 1862

The Dec. 26, 1862, mass hanging marked the end of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, which took place along the Minnesota River valley that fall.

The representation of the figure's hair evolved also, from the early solid mass hanging at the sides and back of the head to the separation of the top and sides into tresses.

The very first scene is a mass hanging, and the body count continues to rise steadily throughout, but aside from nostalgia, there doesn't appear to be much purpose to the whole conflict.