Outside Bossangoa, we know there are troops and local defence groups going around and seeking people out, engaging in targeted killing or small-scale massacres.
It took the rats one by one, picked them up like fruit from a bowl, broke them while the clock ticked and the men roared so loud you could not hear your companion speak to you.' To bet on the results of this small massacre is the most degrading thing the Rev. Oscar Hopkins can immagine.
"We're at a point in this country where there's some kind of small massacre every day, somewhere," he said.
Instead, since Houla, and in between Annan's various statements, there were many more shootings, artillery barrages here and there, ambushes, and targeted killings, including at least two smaller massacres, both involving the wholesale execution of workers in two different parts of Syria.
Alawites recall that what prompted the atrocity in Hama was a far smaller massacre of Alawite army cadets, carried out by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"I declare solemnly that, during eight years of war, I never witnessed nor had reason to suspect any army involvement in the even the smallest massacre of civilians," it said in part.
I have even lived through the consequences of a small Brazilian massacre that was eerily similar to the Colorado massacre.
Mr. Morris has unearthed a number of small-scale Israeli massacres of Palestinians and about a dozen rapes by Israeli soldiers.
The Crime and the Silence is Anna Bikont's painstaking, beautifully written account of how modern-day Poles refused to acknowledge participation in a 1942 small town massacre of Jews.
A number of other small skirmishes and massacres followed and the militias of Michigan Territory and Illinois were mobilized to hunt down Black Hawk's Band.
