The Oxford Handbook of Savage Genocidal Warfare

They have refused to submit

Treacherous and rebellious

Defiant in the face of certain destruction

Conquered cities razed to the ground

Captured towns pillaged, populations massacred

Savage genocidal warfare

Exacted upon the bitter enemies of Asshur

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The cities of men have become targets for annihilation

Acts of blatant destruction, a deterrent to stamp out the flames of sedition

Men decapitated, women of all ages raped

Children blinded, rendered helpless, infants clubbed to death

The unborn ripped from their mothers wombs

Nobles cruelly thrown from city walls

Only to be fed upon by wild beasts

Soldiers flay wives and whores

Roast their little ones screaming in the fire

Piles of severed heads built into pyramids

Even cats and dogs are slain in the streets

Not even the unborn shall escape the wrath of Asshur

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Ruins scavenged for any poor wretches

Cowering in holes or skulking in cellars

Ruthlessly dragged out and slain

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Every last one of them must be exterminated

Leave not a single one alive

The whole of them must be wiped out of existence

We shall make of their nation a barren wasteland with flame

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Entire landscapes will become naught but ruins

Asshur hath commanded let none escape the sword