Burton played the anguished but heroic young captain who would not betray the revolutionary leader despite the systematic slaughter of six hostages.

First, the civilized nations of the world have a moral responsibility to draw the line against systematic slaughter.

Even while addressing the crimes of the past, the most important obligation was is to prevent such systematic slaughter ever recurring anywhere again.

The humanitarian group appealed to the United Nations and its member states to act urgently to prevent the continued systematic slaughter mainly of minority Tutsis.

"And what do you expect me to do while you conduct this systematic slaughter?"

Yet to count on the opponent's meekly acquiescing to his systematic slaughter is naive.

The mob action then erupted into the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a systematic slaughter of Huguenots that was to last five days.

In 1915, The New York Times published 145 stories about the systematic slaughter of Armenians.

The systematic slaughter of herds is expensive and ruins farmers' selective breeding programmes.

Lenz calls it 'harvesting,' a pretty word for systematic slaughter.