Sentence examples for massacred from inspiring English sources

"To think that the police arrested them and then they were massacred, that would just be too much".

If his friends were massacred, he said, the students will feel obliged to step up action to demand justice.

In May 2005 the government massacred protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijan, prompting a break in ties with the west.

IS massacred thousands of villagers.

These militiamen massacred thousands of civilians during the war, and are now continuing to do so.Human Rights Watch, an international monitor, has protested against plans to hold an AU meeting in Khartoum next January, while Sudan's government continues to ravage Darfur.

But Angola's main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), says that 1,080 members of the sect were massacred, with helicopter gunships mowing them down.The area where the incident took place, near the country's second city of Huambo, which is UNITA's traditional stronghold south-east of the capital, Luanda, has been cordoned off.

His book, "La Sale Guerre" (The dirty war), published in France, alleges that soldiers dressed as rebels massacred civilians (in a bid to turn hearts and minds against the Islamist rebels) and that the security forces tortured many Islamist prisoners to death.Rewriting historyThe trial has turned into a debate over the army's decision to abort the election.

In the city of Cholula, which was loyal to Moctezuma, Cortés's Spanish and Tlaxcalan forces massacred thousands in the main square, though accounts differ as to whether it was a pre-emptive strike to fend off an attack or a simple case of bloodlust.

Their deployment follows the failure of 700 Uruguayan UN peacekeepers to intervene in an on-off, month-long fight for the town, which has seen hundreds of civilians massacred, and 250,000 displaced.In this section And it all goes up in flames What's happened to our cash?

(The Ottoman government deported the Armenians, notionally for their safety, as the empire collapsed. Yet thousands were massacred as they marched, and countless others were killed before they set off).

Congress turned a blind eye in 1984 as thousands of Sikhs were massacred in rage at the murder of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.