'massacring' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe an act of extreme violence carried out against a large group of people, animals, or things. For example: "The army performed a devastating massacre of innocent civilians."
Related: Chibok kidnapping: stoicism as girls taken by Boko Haram are remembered Boko Haram has been fighting to impose sharia law across Nigeria's north for the last six years, massacring civilians and kidnapping thousands of women and children, most notoriously a group of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok.
MORE renowned for kidnapping children, massacring peasants and chopping off lips than anything else, the Lord's Resistance Army LRAA) has rarely bothered to articulate its grievances.
Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy (BDP) party, accused the government of deliberately massacring innocent civilians to intimidate his people.
Their leader, Brigadier-General Laurent Nkunda, said he had been "mis-led" into thinking that the national army had been massacring Congolese members of his own Tutsi ethnic group in Bukavu.
In September 2009 government men went on the rampage, raping women by the score and massacring more than 150 protesters in a sports stadium, which triggered EU and African Union sanctions.
In a further brutal show of strength at the end of December, its guerrillas also razed the mountain-top headquarters of their paramilitary arch-rival, Carlos Castaño, in north-western Colombia, massacring some 30 civilians in the process.
After years of abducting children and massacring civilians, they are afraid of what might happen to them.
Forrest was accused of massacring black Union troops after they had surrendered, and later was an early member of the Ku Klux Klan.
America, France and Britain reluctantly intervened to oust Qaddafi in order to prevent him massacring his fellow Libyans, but in the wake of Western failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trio was determined not to get sucked into overseeing Libya's hoped-for transition to democracy, let alone put boots on the ground.
In Iraq, by contrast, military intervention to help the Iraqi government, and to stop IS massacring Yazidis, an esoteric sect, means that America is often seen by Sunnis as the air force of the Shia and minorities.
Last month four former soldiers were each sentenced to 6,060 years in jail for massacring over 200 villagers in 1982.
