massacres

Synonyms

decimation carnage bloodletting bloodbath mass murder pogrom mow down

Examples

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. Desmond Tutu

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives. Michel Chossudovsky

I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love. Sylvia Plath

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them. Alfred de Zayas

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. Antonio Tabucchi

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them? Melina Marchetta