Throughout the Intifada, the Palestinian leadership suffered heavy losses through targeted killings.

Another great convulsion of 20th-century China, the student protests of May 4, 1919, was also suppressed, through imprisonment rather than widespread killings.

Geopolitics becomes a matter of orphaned children and firsthand experience with politicians who settle election disputes through beatings and killings.

Politics is the thread that runs through the attacks and killings, but knowledgeable outsiders say it is rarely the motive.

Most peasants were collectivised by 1952 through terror, killings and deportations.

He kept fueling the war through other bomb attacks and killings.

Since then, around 200 Maliks have been assassinated by local Taliban through targeted killings.

The term has been used to describe regimes that fight political dissent through violence, imprisonment, and killings.

The rebels certainly are not helping their image abroad nor national reconciliation at home through killings.

In mid-August 2012, tribal conflict led to the highest death toll through deliberate killings since the last election.