The slaughter was briefly terminated when local Ukrainian uprising forced the NKVD to retreat, but then it returned.

Few Spaniards initially gave a thought to the wholesale slaughter, enslavement, and forced conversion of Native Americans either, although some men such as Bartolomé de las Casas argued for more humane treatment of them.

By 1587, Hideyoshi had become alarmed, not because of too many converts but rather because the hegemon learned that Christian lords reportedly oversaw forced conversions of retainers and commoners, that they had garrisoned the city of Nagasaki, that they participated in the slave trade of other Japanese and, apparently offending Hideyoshi's Buddhist sentiments, that they allowed the slaughter of horses and oxen for food.

" Due to a severe shortage of food, Parisians were forced to slaughter whatever animals at hand.

In summer, when the rains come, they live on their ranchos ( farms ) in tiny rancherias ( hamlets ) and make cheese from the milk from their cattle, which they slaughter and eat usually only during celebrations.

She did so after the Green Party leader Jim Harris travelled to St. John's on the eve of a federal election, calling for a ban on subsidies to the " barbaric commercial seal slaughter ".

Recent calls for the abolition of kosher ( Jewish ) and halal ( Muslim ) slaughter were made by Germany's federal chamber of veterinarians and the Party for Animals in the Dutch parliament.

The basic objectives in each instance are to make available supplies of food during the intervals between harvesting or slaughter, to minimize losses resulting from the action of microorganisms and insects, and to make it possible to transport foods from the area of harvest or production to areas of consumption.

The Thebans sent a large army into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas, but they could not keep the field against the superior cavalry of Alexander, who, aided by auxiliaries from Athens, pursued them with great slaughter.

In popular culture, the mass production of food, specifically meats such as chicken and beef, has come under fire from various documentaries, most recently Food, Inc, documenting the mass slaughter and poor treatment of animals, often for easier revenues from large corporations.

One of them begins by telling of a calf breaking free from being led to slaughter.

However, the Sikh governors turned out to be hard taskmasters, and Sikh rule was generally considered oppressive, protected perhaps by the remoteness of Kashmir from the capital of the Sikh empire in Lahore ; The Sikhs enacted a number of anti-Muslim laws, which included handing out death sentences for cow slaughter, closing down the Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, and banning the azaan, the public Muslim call to prayer.

" For instance, Jesus ' escape from the slaughter by Herod in Bethlehem is compared to Moses ' escape from Pharaoh's designs to kill Hebrew infants.

The New York Times reported that the letter closing the offices " came from the Humanitarian Affairs Commission, which is run by Ahmed Haroun, one of the people facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for mass slaughter in Darfur.

A number of historians argue that Shaka ' changed the nature of warfare in Southern Africa ' from ' a ritualised exchange of taunts with minimal loss of life into a true method of subjugation by wholesale slaughter '.

" The word is descended ( via the Middle English " snuffen " or " snuppen ") from the Old English " snithan ", meaning to slaughter and dismember, from " snide ", meaning to kill by cutting or stabbing, from " snid ", to cut.

The Qur ' an describes the force of the Muslim attack in many verses, which refer to thousands of angels descending from Heaven at Badr to slaughter the Quraysh.

in " The Cove PSA: My Friend is ..." an effort to stop the slaughter of dolphins and protect the Japanese people from the toxic levels of mercury found in dolphin meat.

A mock trial of Henry V for the crimes associated with the legality of the invasion and the slaughter of prisoners was held in Washington, D. C. in March 2010, drawing from both historical record and Shakespeare's play.

These seem to appear later, but all agree that Cinna distanced himself from the indiscriminate slaughter, ordering only the deaths of Octavius and others who were direct political threats.

Having done so, he proceeds to slaughter the suitors — beginning with Antinous whom he finds drinking from Odysseus ' cup — with help from Telemachus, Athena and two servants, Eumaeus the swineherd and Philoetius the cowherd.

The American bison ( Bison bison ), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds, became nearly extinct by a combination of commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century and introduction of bovine diseases from domestic cattle, and has made a recent resurgence largely restricted to a few national parks and reserves.

In Japan, where the ban on slaughter of livestock for food was lifted only in the late 19th century, the newly found slaughter industry drew workers primarily from villages of burakumin, who traditionally worked in occupations relating to death ( such as executioners and undertakers ).

However, because of the role horses have played as companions and as workers, and concerns about the ethics of the horse slaughter process, it is a taboo food in some cultures.

Austrian authorities took advantage of peasant discontent by inciting the villagers against noble-dominated insurgent units ; it led to the Galician slaughter, a violent anti-feudal rebellion, beyond the intended scope of the provocation.

The most notable event was the 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising headed by Farabundo Martí and the government retaliation, commonly referred to as La Matanza ( the ' slaughter '), which followed.

* The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising, known as La matanza ( the slaughter ), Pipil and peasant rebellion led by Farabundo Martí.

The organization is supported by various celebrities including Joanna Lumley, and campaigns against the live export of animals, certain methods of livestock slaughter, and all systems of factory farming.

For example, Saturninus ' " How well the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts " ( 1. 1. 46 ); Tamora's vow to slaughter the Andronici at 1. 1. 450 – 455 ( thus absolving Saturninus from any involvement ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 1 ; Aaron's " Ay, and as good as Saturninus may " ( 2. 1. 91 ); Aaron's soliloquy in 2. 3 ; Tamora's " Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor ,/ And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower " ( 2. 3. 190 – 191 ); Aaron's two asides in 3. 1 ( ll. 187 – 190 and 201 – 202 ); Lucius ' " Now will I to the Goths and raise a power ,/ To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine " ( 3. 1. 298 – 299 ); Marcus ' " O, heavens, can you hear a good man groan " speech ( 4. 1. 122 – 129 ); Young Lucius ' asides in 4. 2 ( ll. 6 and 8 – 9 ); Aaron's " Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies ,/ There to dispose this treasure in mine arms ,/ And secretly to greet the Empress ' friends " ( 4. 2. 172 – 174 ); and Tamora's " Now will I to that old Andronicus ,/ And temper him with all the art I have ,/ To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths " ( 4. 4. 107 – 109 ).

Champion, realizing that his landowner bosses seek to eliminate Watson, goes to Canton's camp and shoots the remaining rapist, then refuses to participate in the slaughter.

Murals painted before the war depict Croatian immigrants coming to America to seek a better life, grateful to have escaped the slaughter taking place in their homeland.

He " had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

In 1847, when he severed his connection with The Nation, he says, " I had watched the progress of the famine policy of the Government, and could see nothing in it but a machinery, deliberately devised, and skillfully worked, for the entire subjugation of the island — the slaughter of portion of the people, and the pauperization of the rest ," and he had therefore " come to the conclusion that the whole system ought to be met with resistance at every point, and the means for this would be extremely simple, namely, a combination among the people to obstruct and render impossible the transport and shipment of Irish provisions ; to refuse all aid to its removal ; to destroy the highways ; to prevent everyone, by intimidation, from daring to bid for grain and cattle if brought to auction under ' distress ' ( a method of obstruction which put an end to Church tithes before ); in short, to offer a passive resistance universally ; but occasionally, when opportunity served, to try the steel.

The Qing government slowly began cleaning up after the disaster, but were unable to provide effective aid as government finances had been drained during a recent war with Great Britain and the ongoing slaughter of the Taiping Rebellion.

The immense slaughter marked one of the most catastrophic defeats in the history of the Roman Empire and resulted in the death of Decius himself.

This arrangement barely survived Constantine I ’ s death, with the sons of Constantine arranging the slaughter of most of the family of Constantine I at the hands of the army.

Baby Doc's kleptocracy left the regime vulnerable to unanticipated crises, exacerbated by endemic poverty, most notably the epidemic of African swine fever virus — which, at the insistence of USAID officials, led to the slaughter of the creole pigs, the principal source of income for most peasants ; and the widely-publicized outbreak of AIDS in the early 1980s.

The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad.

Among the numerous laws that form part of kashrut are the prohibitions on the consumption of unclean animals ( such as pork and most insects, with the exception of crickets and locusts ), mixtures of meat and milk, and the commandment to slaughter mammals and birds according to a process known as shechita.

Macbeth orders Macduff's castle be seized, and, most cruelly, sends murderers to slaughter Macduff ’ s wife and children.

Although most sources suggest that the final phase of the battle consisted of a one-sided slaughter of Chinese troops by the Japanese, some Japanese historians maintain that the remaining Chinese military still posed a serious threat to the Japanese.

In some communities animal slaughter may be controlled by religious laws, most notably halal for Muslims and kashrut for Jewish communities.

The production was most noted for its portrayal of the slaughter of Cinna ( Norman Lloyd ).

While scholars in Turkey allege that the Armenians launched a rebellion in Van in 1915, most historians agree that the Armenian residents, hoping to avoid the slaughter being inflicted on the rural populations surrounding Van, defended themselves in the Armenian quarters of the city against the Turks.

A year later, influenced by radical Christian monks, Emperor Heraclius instigated a wide-scale slaughter of the Jews, which practically emptied Gelilee of most its Jewish population, with survivors fleeing to Egypt.

Homer gives no foreshadowing of Polydamas's final fate, nor is he mentioned in most of the later poems dealing with the aftermath of the war, leaving the reader to infer that he perished in the general slaughter after the fall of Troy to the Greek forces.

Vanth is involved in a variety of different types of scenes in Etruscan art ; the most common types associate her presence with occasions of slaughter and murder, including scenes from the Trojan cycle.

There is no requirement for ritual slaughter ( shechita ), and theoretically, the horn can come from a non-kosher animal because under most interpretations of Jewish law the shofar is not required to be muttar be-fikha ( literally: permissible in your mouth ); the mitzvah is hearing the shofar, not eating the animal it came from.

Arjuna promptly used his most powerful weapon, Pashupatastra to slaughter Jayadratha.

“ Huguenot writers, who had previously, for the most part, paraded their loyalty to the Crown, now called for the deposition or assignation of a Godless king who had either authorised or permitted the slaughter ”.

From the moment of the first charge, the battle was a slaughter, " frightful to behold ", with most of the Texan casualties coming in the first minutes of battle from the first Mexican volley.

Nearly all farmers kept pigs, which could often scrounge most of their own food or eat milk left over from making cheese, scraps or slop, and were fattened on acorns in autumn before slaughter.

Quoting figures available at the time, a Rolling Stone feature claimed that up to half a million Bengalis had been killed by the cyclone in November 1970 − " a figure impossible to understand " − and the Pakistani army's subsequent brutal campaign of slaughter under Operation Searchlight accounted for at least 250, 000 civilians “ by the most conservative estimates ”.

*** Dhabīḥah, the prescribed method of ritual slaughter of animals excluding camels, locusts, fish and most sea life in Islamic law

One Prussian general later wrote " the area around the entrance of the village was the scene of the most terrible blood-letting and slaughter ".