As many as 500,000 people died in widespread massacres of leftists and minorities.

The anti-Partisan operations conducted by the division whilst under his command involved brutal and widespread massacres and burning of villages.

There have been no widespread massacres of bush Negro people, or indeed of any civilians, by Government forces, as your reporting alleges.

The conduct of the war was brutal on both sides, with widespread massacres of civilians and prisoners.

Turahan's forces eventually subdued the revolt and marched through Albania, committing widespread civilian massacres.

The French authorities, who were supported by a UN resolution, alleged that this intervention avoided a civil war and widespread massacres.

The Japanese still proceeded with a widespread indiscriminate massacre of the Chinese population though.

They are returning refugees, children of more than one million Tutsi who fled Rwanda during widespread massacres of that ethnic minority from 1959 to 1962.

His heavy hand has for years shaped Colombia's brutal conflict, mostly in the form of widespread massacres and political assassinations.

A sustained and widespread massacre of Filipino civilians followed.