Sentence examples for scale of atrocities from inspiring English sources
Despite the scale of atrocities, the ambassador said, it has been difficult to get Americans, including officials of the Clinton administration, to listen and care.
Dov Zakheim, for example, has written that the scale of atrocities in places like the Balkans is often exaggerated, and that in any case violating another nation's sovereignty threatens "to unravel the entire fabric of international relations".
The documents leaked this week revealed the scale of atrocities under not just Mubarak but the military dictatorship that followed his rule – underscoring the fact that malpractice in contemporary Egypt is not limited to one man.
The report said: "The scale of atrocities committed, their general nature, and the fact of deliberately and systematically targeting victims on account of their membership in a particular group, while excluding members of other groups, were other factors from which the commission was able to infer genocidal intent".
"The scale of atrocities carried out by Boko Haram is truly shocking, creating a climate of fear and insecurity", says Amnesty International.
The Western press was appalled with the scale of atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian troops against Serbian civilians, including women and children.
But the sheer scale of the atrocities committed on the other side have come to light only recently, in a flood of books and exhumations of mass graves.
The scale of the atrocities practised by the regime makes it inevitable that there will be a period of bloody revenge-taking.
The book said the scale of the atrocities amounted to a crime against humanity which must never be forgiven sufficiently for the RUF to be given a slice of power.
The report laid bare the scale of the atrocities committed by both sides since the war broke out in December 2013 and warned that many of those may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity.
A new report has laid bare the scale of the atrocities committed during South Sudan's 22-month civil war, detailing cases of rape, torture, mutilation and instances of forced cannibalism.
