Sentence examples for massacre during which from inspiring English sources

The Europeans' revenge was 1928's Coniston massacre, during which it is thought that around 100 men, women and children were slaughtered.

The kind of antisemitism that was widespread in the interwar period – which was quieted in the wake of the Holocaust – has raised its head again: most dramatically during the Charlie Hebdo massacre, during which a random kosher supermarket was attacked by Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly.

But he avoided mention of specific issues such as the 1937 Nanking massacre, during which China claims that Japanese troops killed as many as 300,000 civilians, as well as recent denials that Japan's military forced tens of thousands of Asian women into sexual slavery in the 1930s and 40s.

It was the afternoon of July 14 , 1995 three days into the Srebrenica massacre, during which ultra-nationalist Serb militias, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, killed around eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and teen-age boys in a United Nations safe zone.

"Within one year of mowing down a thousand people, this guy walks right into the presidency," said Sampsa, referring to the August 2013 Rabaa massacre, during which hundreds of Morsi supporters — thousands, by some accounts — were killed by Egyptian forces.

But before all that, he was the former senior commander of the Jamiat-e-Islami militia, and was named by Human Rights Watch in its 2005 report Blood Stained Hands as a key commander in the Afshar Massacre during which about 800 members of the Shia Muslim Hazara minority were killed in a bout of murder, rape and looting in a civilian area of Kabul in September 1992.

But the enormity of the 1994 massacres — during which at least 800,000 Tutsis and dissident Hutus were killed, many by their own neighbors acting on the orders of the Hutu nationalist government — is if anything underscored by the absence of graphic physical evidence.

The Japanese soldier "wrote of his love for his family, eulogized the beauty of a sunset — then described how he participated in a massacre of Filipinos during which he clubbed a baby against a tree".

Thousands of British tourists were preparing to fly home following the massacre on Friday, during which student Seifeddine Rezgui walked down the beach and into a hotel firing a Kalashnikov gun.

They even accompanied newspaper accounts of tragic events, like the Massacre of 1871, during which a mob of 500 hanged several Chinese men and boys.

I did not know he was especially harsh to black Union soldiers during the Civil War, or let his subordinates do ugly things to them, including an infamous massacre at Fort Pillow, during which 300 mostly black Union soldier died.