The massacre represented "probably the lowest moment in the short history of a democratic South Africa", wrote Cyril Ramaphosa, a senior figure in the African National Congress and a former mining union leader.
The U.S. State Department, referring to unconfirmed reports that 1,700 soldiers had been executed, said such a massacre would represent "a true depiction of the blood lust that these terrorists represent".
August 14's massacre in Cairo represents the apex of the state's policy of brutal suppression of peaceful protestors who demand the reinstatement of democratically elected president Morsi.
Viva, a British animal-welfare group, believes that the squirrel-eating vogue represents a "wildlife massacre".Yet massacres are not always wrong.
His description of himself as a young reader typifies an adoration of American mythology that overlooks precisely the American heritage that Wounded Knee represents: the massacre of Lakota men, women, and children by the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment, on December 29 , 1890
A bas-relief of the Massacre of the Innocents also represents beauty at the service of murder.
The senseless massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar represents a new level of atrociousness in the Taliban's behavior.
In Bosnia, Zumra Sehemerovic, who represents an association of massacre survivors, said the recognition of the crime was essential to the victims.
This setback is nothing on the scale of Balkan massacres in the 1990s, but it represents a continued failure to put the region's troubled past behind it through integration with the rest of Europe.
Murphy represents Connecticut, where the Newtown massacre happened, and thus he feels very strongly about the issue of gun control.
