atrocity

Example Sentences

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The RSF was born out of the Janjaweed militias, which were accused of widespread atrocities when the government deployed them to put down a rebellion in Sudan’s western Darfur region in the early 2000s.

From Washington Times

Do you really have to have a close relative subjected to the horrors of that atrocity to clue you into the utter cluelessness of that decision?

From Seattle Times

“I think it is really important that specifically a Ukrainian won the contest showing the atrocities against civilians by Russian forces in Ukraine,” he said.

From Seattle Times

The size of the payout, however, speaks to both the journalistic atrocities and the reams of internal correspondence that Dominion pried from Fox News during the pretrial maneuvering.

From Washington Post

Bashir and his government denied allegations of atrocities, saying only rebels were targeted in the conflict that lasted years, killed about 300,000 people and displaced 2 million.

From Reuters