Sentence examples for were atrocities from inspiring English sources

No doubt there were atrocities by Americans in this war, as there were in every war in history.

The Nigerian military not only denies the figures, and refuses to investigate, but says if there were atrocities they were carried out by insurgents.

"As the media seem to have forgotten," according to the spin-doctor masterminding the pro-Pinochet campaign in Britain, "there were atrocities on both sides"?

Botswana has refused to recognize the legitimacy of Mr. Mugabe's June election after its own election monitors documented what they said were atrocities against the opposition.

There were atrocities on both sides, but Franco's men murdered at least three times as many as did the Republicans, plus thousands more after the war was over, and with cool deliberation.

The activist, Halit Barani, had provided the most comprehensive account in Mr. Milosevic's three-week-old trial for war crimes of what prosecutors say were atrocities in the war in Kosovo in 1999.

"Yes, there have been atrocities," she said.

There have been atrocities by all sides.

"You can never deny that there have been atrocities.

Yes, there will be atrocities, but they are not mindless atrocities.

He later admitted to the British high commissioner that "there had been atrocities".