This included Cause_to_be_included 1,090 executions at the end of the war , the largest wartime use Using of capital punishment by the British Empire .

The Wehrmacht carried out Action mass executions Rewards_and_punishments of civilians in retaliation for resistance activity e.g. , the Kragujevac massacre .

Finally , during and after the final stages of the war , Yugoslav authorities and Partisan troops carried out reprisals , including the deportation of the Danube Swabian population , forced Causation marches and executions of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians ( predominantly Croats associated Collaboration with the NDH , but also Slovenes and others ) fleeing Escaping their advance ( the Bleiburg repatriations ) , atrocities against the Italian population in Istria ( the Foibe massacres ) and purges against Serbs , Hungarians and Germans associated Collaboration with the fascist forces .

In addition , between 150,000 and 200,000 Polish civilians died Death , mostly from mass executions Rewards_and_punishments .

Human Rights Watch reported Reporting that the vast majority of the abuses during operation were committed Commitment by Croatian forces and that the abuses continued on a large scale for months afterward , which included Cause_to_be_included executions of civilians and destruction of Serb property .

For twenty-four years the Indonesian government subjected the people of East Timor to routine and systematic torture , sexual slavery , extrajudicial executions , massacres , and deliberate starvation .

A Soviet campaign of political murders Killing and other forms of repression , targeting Aiming Polish figures of authority such as military officers , police and priests , began Process_start with a wave of arrests Arrest and summary executions Rewards_and_punishments .

Dozens of summary executions Rewards_and_punishments took place Process_start of Palestinians who had been taken Conquering prisoner , and hundreds of civilians were killed Killing as Israeli forces combed through areas like Khan Yunis , and others died Death in several separate incidents .

Another study finds Know that the accounts from the time offered Supply different accounts of the executions , though agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act on the skeletal narrative .

To facilitate Cause_to_make_progress the depopulation of Poland , the Nazis terrorised the general populace with the public , summary executions of selected Choosing intellectuals and community leaders , before effecting Influence the expulsions of the general population from occupied Poland .

The conflict Hostile_encounter was characterized by summary executions , massacres , purges , kidnapping and other war crimes and crimes against humanity .

Belgian resistance and German fear Change_sentiment of francs-tireurs , led Bringing the Germans to implement Action a policy of terror Terrorism ( ) against Belgian civilians soon after the invasion Military_operation , in which massacres Killing , executions Rewards_and_punishments , hostage Kidnapping taking and the burning Bodily_harm of towns and villages took place Process_start and became Becoming known as the Rape of Belgium .

From 5 to 12 August 1944 , tens of thousands of Polish civilians along with captured Conquering Home Army resistance fighters were brutally and systematically murdered Killing by the Germans in organised Arranging mass executions Rewards_and_punishments throughout Wola .