Sentences with phrase «mass slaughter which»

April marks the ten - year anniversary of the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, a catastrophic mass slaughter which claimed 850,000 lives in three months.

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One is foot - and - mouth disease, which broke out this past February on English farms in Cumbria and Devon, leading to a prophylactic mass slaughter of cows and sheep throughout Britain and France.

Louie Psihoyos, the film's director, describes Racing Extinction as an eco-thriller, similar to his previous Academy Award winning doc, The Cove, which followed the mass slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.

Reaching back into 20th - century history, Edet Belzberg's Watchers of the Sky traverses similarly blood - drenched terrain to tell the astonishing and dismaying story of Raphael Lemkin, born in 1900, a Polish Jew who became obsessed as a young man with the mass slaughter of the Armenians by the Turks and coined the word genocide (which combines Latin and Greek roots) to describe that horrific event unaware that the same thing would soon happen to the Jews of Europe, including his entire family, under the Nazi regime.

Also, see «Judas goat», the animal that was used to lead the masses into the slaughterhouse, and which would be saved from the slaughter due to the valuable nature of its contribution.

I urge everyone concerned about the concept of mass slaughter in this day and age — especially when it's being taught to children — to contact them and express support for this bill, which would protect not only crows, but all the unfairly maligned species that have been targeted for hundreds of years.

As they swept across Asia, they decimated populations and destroyed huge swathes of farmland, which reverted to natural forest (not that we think mass slaughter of mankind is a solution).