Example sentences for: massacres

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

  • 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.

  • I think school massacres and teen-age girls killing their infants are ultimately about despair and fatalism.

  • Abdelkader Hachani condemned the massacres as "crimes against humanity" and said that, by rejecting a political solution and refusing to protect the population, "the government bears a large part of the responsibility."

  • Vittorio Zucconi, Washington correspondent of La Repubblica of Rome, highlighted President Clinton's remark that 20 th century history is largely the history of massacres carried out in Europe by Europeans, and said that Europe is "once again forcing Americans to take up the sword and die for villages whose names they don't even know."

  • "Two policemen seeking asylum in Britain told the Observer they took part in massacres and torture of defenceless civilians, under orders," the newspaper said.


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