Sentence examples for massacres of some from inspiring English sources
Very good reasons indeed: some of these include the systemic killing of female philosophers, massacres of some of our earliest thinkers such as the Aztec; and the destruction of ancient African cities that illuminate the thinking of old civilisations.
"But they reserved the biggest joke for last," she added, as she stood outside the courthouse alongside Mr Dink's stony-faced widow, Rakel.Mr Dink, who deconstructed myths around the 1915 massacres of some 1.5m Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, ran afoul of the authorities when he called the episode genocide.
As a reprisal against the killing of some of his soldiers, Nādir ordered the massacre of some 30,000 Delhi citizens.
Mekdad described the attack as a "massacre" of some 50 people, most of them women and children.
Among his countless brutalities, the massacre of some 1,200 prisoners in the notorious Abu Salim prison in 1996 is only one of the most flagrant.
Since his election last May, Nikolic had already publicly denied that the Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serbian troops was genocide.
Ndadaye, a banking executive, spent many years in exile in neighbouring Rwanda after the massacre of some 200,000 Hutu in 1972.
Historians say that in 1680, Popé negotiated treaties among several Indian tribes and led a massacre of some 500 Spanish settlers that temporarily ended the colonizing of New Mexico.
The lunchroom lady is from Srebrenica, driven from the town during Serb soldiers' massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys.
His signature, however, does not appear on the famous petition of the Cordeliers demanding the abdication of Louis XVI that, on July 17, resulted in the massacre of some of the petitioners by the national guard.
For years, the tribunal has been investigating cases of war crimes and genocide committed by Serbian commanders during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, including the massacre of some 8,000 unarmed Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995.
