Sentence examples for wave of massacres from inspiring English sources

DUNGU, Congo — The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians.

The wave of massacres comes in the context of a jump in homicides.

The wave of massacres was ignored by the world, and the humanitarian crisis that followed was amplified by international neglect.

The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians.

The first wave of massacres in the town began on 11 or 12 May 1941, when a band of Ustaše led by Mirko Puk murdered a group of Serb men and boys in a Serbian Orthodox church before setting it on fire.

The theme is harder to avoid, however, in the wake of a major wave of prosecutions for massacres and forced disappearances that was launched just a week before the inauguration.

Following the arrival of the Germans, thousands of Jews in rural towns were slaughtered in a wave of spontaneous and organised massacres.

It has armed both of the large local tribes, the Hema and the Lendu, pitting each against the other, and fuelling a wave of tit-for-tat massacres which have claimed tens of thousands of lives.

The coup by the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel group unleashed a wave of looting, rapes and massacres by its fighters that degenerated into clashes with Christian self-defense militias.

A wave of protests triggered by the massacre put President Enrique Peña Nieto under acute political pressure.

Following the Westgate Mall massacre, a wave of gunfire and explosive attacks has continued in the east African nation.