A major aim of 'Newspeak' ( The use of language in news items for mind-control) is to use words to underplay the horrors and injustices inflicted by the manipulators and to emphasise their 'victories'.
Orwell gives an example of how the policy of bombing defenceless villages from the air and forcing people from their homes is called "pacification" and millions of peasants robbed of their farms with no more than they can carry is called "transfer of population or rectification of frontiers".
In modern wars, like the invasion of
Taken from 'Tales From The Time