"widespread massacre" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an event in which numerous people are killed in a single location or multiple locations. For example, "The widespread massacre that occurred during the Bosnian War left many families without loved ones."
In "Aliens in the Attic," which opened on Friday, a new group of intergalactic travelers comes to Earth, sees Ashley Tisdale in a bikini and decides to continue with its plans for widespread massacre and planetary domination.
If, at independence in 1960, Nigeria was "a collection of fragments held in a fragile clasp," in 1967 that clasp snapped, unleashing the three-year Biafran War that saw Muslim-dominated forces from the north laying siege to the Christian Igbo of the south, who sought to secede from Nigeria after the widespread massacre of their people.
If hands must be dirtied to avoid widespread massacre, on the one hand, or damage to the moral-cum-political continuity of a community's way of life, then why not to avoid the unjustified killing of individuals or small groups or the drastic disruption of individual or small group's way of living.
In 1998, an assassin bludgeoned to death the Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi shortly after he issued a damning report blaming the army for widespread massacres.
Recent military operations to sweep out the rebels have mostly failed and instead led to widespread massacres and human rights abuses.
His heavy hand has for years shaped Colombia's brutal conflict, mostly in the form of widespread massacres and political assassinations.
Bass lays out his indictment of the White House: Nixon and Kissinger spurned the cables, written by their own diplomats in Dacca (the capital of East Pakistan), that said West Pakistan was guilty of carrying out widespread massacres.
Human rights groups say the Self-Defense Forces are responsible for widespread massacres of villagers and have ties to rogue elements in the military, a charge the government has long denied.
Now, tears well up in Ms. Galvis's eyes as she talks about what has happened since President Andrés Pastrana embarked on peace talks: the death of a family member at the hands of rebels, widespread massacres and guerrilla attacks, the mind-numbing fear that keeps her from venturing outside the relative safety of this capital.
"On the contrary, it of all countries in the world was the only one that took the initiative to organise a humanitarian operation to prevent widespread massacres".
It was a war in which millions died, in which there were widespread massacres of civilians, in which rape was routinely used as a weapon and where Japan used chemical and biological warfare against civilians.
