5 sentences with 'massacres'
Example sentences and phrases with the word massacres and other words derived from it.
• « The events in Paris, in turn, triggered massacres across the country with at least 20,000 more deaths (supposedly, the Pope was so pleased with the news that he gave 100 gold coins to the messenger who brought them to him). »
• « Long before there were mass socialist parties, there were struggles and even massacres over working conditions; »
• « The most horrific violence of the Turkish revolution was directed at the Armenian minority, with more than a million Armenians forced into the deserts or killed outright. Although the Turkish state refuses to acknowledge it to this day, historians have long recognised that the Armenian massacres amounted to full-scale genocide. »
• « Although much of the Holocaust took the form of bloody massacres, similar to the slaughter of Armenians by the fledgling state of Turkey in the early 1920s or the various mass killings of Native Americans during the long and bloody colonisation of the Americas by Europeans; »
• « There is a radio broadcasting booth in Sarajevo, and others operate clandestinely in Serb-occupied territory, just steps away from concentration camps, massacres and "ethnic purges". »