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massacre

to massacre
Werkwoord
  • opzettelijk mensen doden; iedereen vermoorden; op brute wijze doden; op brute wijze vermoorden
  • kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

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massacre
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • massamoord
  • the savage and excessive killing of many people

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massacre
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • bloedbad, afslachting, hecatombe, moordpartij, slachting
  • the savage and excessive killing of many people

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Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. The general ordered the massacre of all war prisoners.
  2. I watched the film named "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" with my girlfriend yesterday. She was very afraid.
  3. Lots of Brazilian schools observed a minute's silence in honour of the victims of the massacre in Realengo.
  4. The Chinese government controlled the internet to prevent the people from knowing the truth of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
  5. The massacre in Norway and the recent rebellion and the booty in England, are dreadful in consideration of the circumstances that the world drifted into.
  6. On the 2nd of September 1792 when the general massacre of the prisoners took place at Paris, M. Sombreuil was on the point of being sacrificed when he was rescued from the hands of the assassins by the heroic conduct of his daughter, though on the dreadful condition that she would drink success to the republic in a goblet of blood!
  7. As CNDP Chief of Staff, had direct and command responsibility for the massacre at Kiwanja (November 2008)
  8. According to multiple sources, Lt Col Innocent Zimurinda, prior to the CNDP’s integration into FARDC, participated in a November 2008 CNDP operation that resulted in the massacre of 89 civilians, including women and children, in the region of Kiwanja.
  9. Mudacumura (or staff) was in telephone communication with FDLR leader Murwanashyaka in Germany, including at the time of the Busurungi Massacre May 2009, and military commander Major Guillaume during Umoja Wetu and Kimia II operations in 2009.
  10. According to multiple sources, Lt Col Innocent Zimurinda, in his capacity as one of the commanders of the FARDC 231st Brigade, gave orders that resulted in the massacre of over 100 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, during an April 2009 military operation in the Shalio area.
  11. In telephone communication with FDLR military field commanders (including during the Busurungi May 2009 massacre); gave military orders to the high command; involved in coordinating the transfer of arms and ammunition to FDLR units and relaying specific instructions for use; managing large sums of money raised through illicit sale of natural resources in areas of FDLR control (pg.24-25, 83)