Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian Army came in time to save the last set of victims earmarked for slaughter...
...self-destruction from Japanese soldiers. They have read the story, in Japanese newspapers, of the "dauntless courage of Captain Yamazaki"-in the seventh paragraph it is revealed that Captain Yamazaki's courage consisted in destroying himself. But none were prepared for this epic self-slaughter among civilians. More than one U.S. fighting man was killed trying to rescue a Jap from his wanton suicide...
...Simple Slaughter. Next morning our troops drove to the beach on the north of the Jap pocket and thus hemmed in the remnants of living and the windrows of dead in an area about a thousand yards along the beach and 500 yards inland. In the northern end of this pocket there was some fierce fighting that day before the enemy was beaten down. But from the lower end of the pocket, driving north, it was simple slaughter...
...invoke Thee to end this fearful scourge; O King of peace, we humbly implore the peace for which we long. . . . During Thy life on earth Thy heart beat with tender compassion for the sorrows of men; in this hour made terrible with burning hate, with bloodshed and with slaughter, once more may Thy Divine heart be moved to pity...
Thanks and congratulations for that terrifically inspiring, interesting and extremely well-written story of Drs. Fleming, Florey and Chain. It restores my hope in humanity to know that in these times when the world's mass-mind is bent on hate and slaughter there can emerge this man-made miracle which will alleviate human suffering...