atrocity by
Frequency: 7.110.8 per million words
Used to specify the perpetrators of the atrocity.
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Examples (10)
- The news was filled with reports of atrocities by the invading army.
- The tribunal investigated the alleged atrocity by the regime's secret police.
- Historians have documented numerous atrocities by colonial powers throughout the 19th century.
- The international court is prosecuting the atrocities by former military leaders.
- There is mounting evidence of atrocities by paramilitary groups in the region.
- The bombing was condemned as a shocking atrocity by a terrorist organization.
- An official inquiry was launched into the alleged atrocities by the occupying forces.
- Survivors gave harrowing accounts of atrocities by the dictator's loyalists.
- Any atrocity by a state against its own citizens is a crime against humanity.
- The peace accord aimed to prevent future atrocities by either side in the conflict.