The woman were raped and then everyone was systematically executed.

The guerrillas overran police stations and checkpoints here early last week, and, dressed in police uniforms themselves, systematically executed law enforcement and military personnel who tried to come to their besieged friends' aid.

At each of these four locations, thousands of people were systematically executed in mass shootings, having been previously rounded-up in other places and taken there in groups.

Communists were systematically executed and thieves were punished by amputating one of their hands or feet.

The Japanese systematically executed 70,000 ethnic Chinese in Singapore and southern Malaya.

She said the photos and the accounts by witnesses were "compelling evidence that the Bosnian Serbs had systematically executed people who were defenseless" - thousands of them - "with the direct involvement of high-level Bosnia Serb officials."

After the village was overrun by the Soviet partisans, men presumed to belong to the Polish resistance were rounded up and systematically executed one-by-one or in small groups near the homes they were taken from.

One of our number-a brave soul-shouted this to our employers, that we, the servants, were being systematically executed.

The fact that his government has systematically executed thousands, jailed thousands more who opposed him and denied the Cuban people the basic freedoms that we in democratic nations take for granted is reason enough for the international community to condemn him.

Nor must we forget that those on the legal Left in Colombia are systematically executed if they appear in public.