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.