The message is clear: that there will be a day of reckoning for those guilty of the appalling atrocities.

Like other factions in an often-grisly conflict, guerrilla fighters of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia have been accused of appalling atrocities.

He has armed bands of thugs like Arkan's Tigers and Seselj's White Eagles that commit appalling atrocities to drive Muslim Slavs and Croats from their homes.

On 30 December 2008, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned "the appalling atrocities reportedly committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in recent days".

The appalling atrocities committed by both sides during the Civil War keep coming to light, for those willing to look, or speak.

The Greeks could do nothing but retreat and this would almost inevitably decline into a rout characterized by the most appalling atrocities: rape, pillage and arson rendering up to one millon Turks homeless.

The Truth Commission on El Salvador reported two weeks ago that Government forces had carried out appalling atrocities through the 1980's.

But as I have argued elsewhere: 'The validity of the analogy does not depend on a catalogue of atrocities, however appalling'.

Mr President, yet again we are discussing the issue of terrorism in the context of the appalling atrocity in Bali in which hundreds of people lost their lives.

We are in urgent contact with our European Union partners and will continue urgent efforts to find ways to end, or to try contribute to ending, those appalling atrocities.