Hostilities on a large scale between Arabs and Jews broke out in 1947, and vicious atrocities were committed by both sides.
The writer's son, Anthony, was working with Muslim refugees in Tuzla, and was able to get firsthand accounts of the vicious atrocities which had taken place.
The most memorable – and vicious – atrocities saw policemen herding panicking crowds on to Paris's bridges, where many were tossed into the Seine.
This is a vicious atrocity".
Human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani accused the Sunni Muslim insurgents - who have ordered the community they regard as "devil worshippers" to convert to Islam or die - of celebrating a "a vicious atrocity" with cheers and weapons waved in the air.
Over 100,000 internal displaced persons (IDPs) in Kalma Camp have been trying their best to survive and forget atrocities and vicious attacks that led to their displacement.
Noam Chomsky described the Gaza bombardment as "hideous," "vicious," "murderous," and "an atrocity".
A country where today, coming out of civil war, incomprehensible atrocities and brutal leadership, and, most recently, a vicious battle with Ebola, only 9.8% of Liberia's 4.39 million citizens have access to electricity.
At first glance the Westgate atrocity simply looks like a vicious reprisal for successful military operations undertaken in southern Somalia by the 4,000 Kenyan troops attached to Amisom, the 18,000-strong African-Union-led, UN-backed peacemaking mission.
It was vicious and eye-opening, venue of the deadliest atrocities in Europe since World War II, a conflict that gave us the term "ethnic cleansing" as Serbs wiped out Muslim Bosnians, Croats wiped out Serbs and so forth.
And it is certainly true that World War II transformed the United States from a marginal to a dominant player in the international arena, and from a Depression-stricken land into the model of modern affluence -- the very developments that now excite the vicious anti-Americanism that appears to have inspired last week's atrocities.
