Sentence examples for organized massacres from inspiring English sources

Mr. Holbrooke was worried about the outcome of the Bosnian vote because he knew that Mr. Karadzic was still secretly running his nationalist political party and picking candidates, including mayors and police chiefs who had run prison camps and organized massacres.

At least 1,000,000 Greeks, men, women, and children have perished as a result of organized massacres and deportations by 'the Turco-Teutons' in Asiatic Turkey,... 'Those of us who were between the ages of 16 and 60 were drafted into the army,' Macrides said.

Barry Bearak EAST TIMOR: MASSACRE EVIDENCE -- United Nations forensic experts have uncovered evidence of an organized massacre of East Timorese in Oceussi, a seaside enclave surrounded by Indonesian West Timor.

S. H. M. Byers, of Iowa, "remembered one terrible battle where 'lines of blue and gray' stood 'close together and fire[d] into each other's faces for an hour and a half.' " Organized massacre — men advancing to their death through close rifle fire — was the rule of battle; chaotic massacre the rule of its aftermath.

He held power for 17 years, during which he organized innumerable massacres.

But certain episodes of mass lethality and horror — the Middle Passage, Stalin's "liquidations," the organized tribal massacres in Africa, even Bosnia — cannot be so easily dismissed.

In 1469 Ivan III captured Kazan, but his puppet khan organized a massacre of all Russians in the town in 1504.

Archibald (1651?–1703), 10th earl, regained the family estates and was created 1st duke of Argyll; he organized the massacre of the Macdonalds of Glencoe.

The government minister's son, Ars? Shalom Ntahobali, who was in his early 20s and a student at the time, also was found guilty of helping to organize the massacres in Butare, where he had joined his mother and became a militia leader.

"We had," he began, "a difficult year... we faced heavy massacres organized by IS that they were possibly able to carry out with support from within Turkey".

Mr. Ngudjolo is accused of organizing a massacre in the village of Bogoro in which boy soldiers hacked and burned alive about 200 people.