Example sentences for: massacres

How can you use “massacres” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the leading Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat , Huda al-Husseini said the bombing reflected the Clinton administration's growing penchant for "military solutions as a substitute for considered plans to impose peace and protect people from massacres."

  • Violent insurrections provoked equally violent massacres in retaliation; and death came to form a monumental collective badge of honor.

  • Terrible scenes of massacres, bombings, and the like are displayed almost daily.

  • Although, according to local Albanians, the Serbs spent three days burning documents before the British arrived, the Guardian quoted an official of the Hague war crimes tribunal as saying that scraps of paper left behind might be useful in establishing a "paper chain" between President Slobodan Milosevic and the massacres carried out in Kosovo.

  • The current clamor in the West for Yugoslav war criminals to be put on trial for crimes against humanity should be used to demand the prosecution of Israelis for atrocities and massacres committed against Palestinians during and since the 1948 Israeli-Arab War, according to Palestinian writer Mohammad al-Az'ar in Thursday's Pan-Arab al-Hayat . In Egypt, the semi-official daily Al-Ahram published an article Thursday by commentator Salaheddin Hafez warning that what NATO is doing in Yugoslavia could be replicated against one or more Arab countries.


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