The tsunami swept away entire towns and killed tens of thousands of people.
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It's been nearly five years since Eritrea and Ethiopia called a truce to a border war that killed tens of thousands of people.
Guatemala's first Pentecostal president, Efrain Rios Montt, killed tens of thousands of Mayans (and enjoyed the support of American Pentecostals such as Pat Robertson).
Safety in schools has been a major public concern in China since a devastating earthquake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed tens of thousands of people.
First lady Laura Bush has fervently taken up the cause, sharply criticizing the regime for its response to a May cyclone that killed tens of thousands of people.
The campaign, which is called Anfal, meaning the spoils, that cleared and depopulated northern Iraq and killed tens of thousands of people - this is such a live memory.
Neither they nor outsiders such as the United Nations are able to force a proper inquiry into growing evidence that in the last days of the war the army killed perhaps tens of thousands of Tamil soldiers and civilians.
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Official estimates say more than three million were killed and tens of thousands of women raped during the war.
"The main accused in this crime and other crimes are the U.S. security and military forces that have occupied an Islamic state under the pretext of a campaign against terrorism and have killed or wounded tens of thousands of people so far and have intensified insecurity there, " the ayatollah said.
And how do I weigh tens of thousands who've been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo?
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Thousands of young gang members have been killed, tens of thousands have been arrested and they continue to grow. 10.45.03 Music 10.45.06 Slim When the kids come home from out of school, they come right into the streets.
When the risk is not hundreds of people killed in a conventional attack but tens or hundreds of thousands killed by chemical, biological or nuclear attack, the time factor is even more compelling.
More than 200, 000 have been killed, and tens of thousands suffer from starvation.
Hundreds more Muslims have been killed, and tens of thousands have been made homeless, in violence across the country over the past year.
The conflict is the worst since violence in Rakhine state last year, where nearly 200 people were killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes.
This incident is the worst sectarian conflict since the violence that hit Rakhine state last year, where nearly 200 people were killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes.
The BBC's south-east Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says that the eruption of communal anger uncomfortably echoes what happened in Rakhine state last year, where nearly 200 people were killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes.
At least one million Somalis have died in the conflict that has raged there for decades, and when I visited the Somali capital Mogadishu recently, the country was undergoing a famine that started during summer 2011 and by unofficial estimates has killed tens of thousands and affected millions more.
Since the latest insurgency began in 1976, tens of thousands have been killed, most of them civilians.
After tens of thousands of black Africans had been killed, 300 men arrived, half of them from Rwanda.
The United Nations estimates that more than 10, 000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Syria and tens of thousands displaced since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began 16 months ago.
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It has failed to attract much international attention, even as tens of thousands of people have been killed, many of them children.
"Tens of thousands of Muslims perish daily worldwide - not thousands, but millions of Muslims are killed, " Khattab said in a recent website interview.
The attack on Halabja was part of a wider campaign known as "Anfal" in which tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed by their own government.
The earthquake killed more than 300 and made tens of thousands homeless in the area around the city of L'Aquila.
The disputed region of Kashmir is claimed by both India and Pakistan and tens of thousands of people have been killed since an armed revolt erupted in 1989.
The new camp was known as Berga an der Elster, a subcamp of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp where tens of thousands of Jews and other political prisoners were killed under Adolf Hitler's regime.
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Although violence in Iraq has eased since a peak in 2006-2007 when tens of thousands were killed, insurgents still carry out deadly attacks, especially around the capital.
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