If the claims are correct, this would be one of the earliest large-scale massacres of the Algerian civil conflict.

There are a few other steps we can take to reduce the chance of large-scale massacres.

But so far, the troops and United Nations officials say, they have not found evidence of the large-scale massacres that had been feared.

Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before, let alone large-scale massacres.

But the guerrillas were forced back when, with American assistance, the army improved its performance and stopped large-scale massacres of peasants.

This conflict was accompanied by large-scale massacres of both Romans and Jews.

Revenge and counter-revenge attacks grew into atrocities and large-scale massacres.

By some estimates the proceedings may last at least another year, and it will include the large-scale massacres of civilians.

Civilians in the occupied territories had to endure many large-scale massacres, including that in Nanking.

See large-scale massacres of Christian Ibo living in the Muslim north.