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Photographs of the My Lai massacre provoked world outrage and made it an international scandal.
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Photographs of the My Lai massacre provoked world outrage and made it an international scandal.

Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass murder, especially of non-combatant civilians without any reasonable means of defense, that would qualify as war crimes or atrocities. Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants, except figuratively, although the deliberate mass killings of prisoners of war are often considered massacres.

At the same time, the term massacre is used more widely to refer to individual, civil, or military mass killings on smaller scales, but having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events, such as the Boston massacre. Individual or small group acts of murder may also be described as massacres for sensationalist or sentimental reasons, as in the case of some school shootings. Additionally, the word massacre is often used for political or propaganda purposes, and the choice of whether to label an event a massacre may become a sensitive one; see, for example, the Kent State shootings.

Below is a list of incidents that either meet the criteria of resulting in large numbers of deliberate and direct civilian deaths in a single event, or that are commonly labeled as massacres, though they may not be on the same scale. Generally, the list includes individual events only, but where such an event includes too many individual massacres to list separately (e.g. The Holocaust, Great Purge), the wider event may be listed as well as some of the more prominent individual massacres. Note that the figure for deaths is usually an estimate, and is frequently contested. See the individual article on each massacre for more information. Furthermore, the distinction between genocide and massacres may be difficult and controversial, this categorization mustn't be seen as definitive nor authoritative. Please see relevant articles for further information.

[edit] Background key

Light yellow background Massacres in which 10,000 or more civilians were intentionally killed.
Lavender background Massacres that took place during the American Revolutionary War or War of 1812.
Dark grey background Massacres forming part of the Holocaust.[1]
Grey background Massacres during World War II other than those forming part of the Holocaust.

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[edit] Ancient and Middle Ages (to 1500)

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
334 BCE Destruction of Thebes c.6,000 to 8,000 Greece

Alexander the Great slaughters the population of the city following a revolt. (Subsequently Alexander massacres at least a quarter of a million city dwellers at Sindimana, Gaza and other locations.)
260 BCE Battle of Changping 400,000 Jincheng, China

The State of Qin defeats the State of Zhao, killing 400,000 Zhao people. The battle becomes a decisive victory in the establishment of the Qin Dynasty.
150 BCE Lusitanian Massacres c.8,000 Spain

Roman troops under Galba massacre Lusitani citizens after convincing them to surrender.
71 BCE Third Servile War c.6,000 Roman Republic

Surrendering slaves are crucified along the Via Appia.
c.1 AD Massacre of the Innocents unknown Bethlehem

Herod the Great orders the execution of all young male children in the city, as reported in the Bible. (The historicity of this event is questioned.)
523 Najran massacre unknown Najran

King Dhu Nawas orders the Jewish tribe of Himyarites to forcefully convert the Christians in Najran. The Christians were subsequently massacred.
532 Nika riots c.30,000 Byzantine Empire

After a sports rivalry turns into a full-scale riot, Emperor Justinian I locks the rioters in the Hippodrome and has them killed.
614 Jerusalem massacres Up to 90,000 Jerusalem

Jewish locals join with Persian invaders to massacre up to 90,000 Christians
650 Mesopotamia Massacres 10,000 Mesopotamia

Arabs conquer Mesopotamia and kill 10,000 Assyrians and other Christians. All others flee to the Iraq's mountains or convert to Islam.
782 Bloody Verdict of Verden 4,500 Verden, Germany

Massacre of non-Christian Saxons by Charlemagne; actual scale subject to debate.
1002 St. Brice's Day massacre unknown England

Ethelred II orders the slaughter of an unknown number of Danes.
1096 German Crusade c.10,000 Rhine River

The "People's Crusade" prior to the First Crusade results in the deaths of thousands of Jews living beside or near the river Rhine (see also Emicho).
1098 Siege of Antioch c.20,000 Antioch, Syria

Almost all Muslim inhabitants slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.
1099 First Crusade/Siege of Jerusalem c.70,000 Jerusalem

Almost all Muslim inhabitants slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.
1190 Clifford's Tower c.150 York, England

A mob attacks Jewish residents; many commit suicide.
1191 Siege of Acre (Akko) 2,750 Akko

Richard the Lionheart slaughters Muslim prisoners taken during the siege.
1209 Albigensian Crusade 20,000 to 100,000 Beziers, France

Crusaders slaughter the Cathars. Other civilian slaughters occur in Toulouse and Saint-Nazaire.
1220 Samarkand massacre c.75,000 Samarkand, Khwarezm[2]

After the city's surrender, the Mongols under Genghis Khan they drive out and slaughter its population. Over 75,000 men, women and children perish.
1221 Herat massacre 600,000 Herat

Genghis Khan's Mongols destroy the city and massacre the population.
1268 Siege of Antioch 40,000 Antioch, Syria

Sultan Baibars' of Egypt attacks, captures and loots the Christian-held city of Antioch. His armies slaughter or enslave every Christian in the city. This was the end of Antioch's 1500-ear history; the city never recovered.
1282 Sicilian Vespers thousands Italy

French citizens of Sicily killed during a revolt.
1289 Siege of Tripoli c.10,000 Palestine

Christian conquest of Muslim state; virtually the whole population killed.
1291 Siege of Tyre 10,000 Tyre, Palestine

Baibars' army destroys the city and massacres the population.
1296 Massacre of Berwick 30,000 Berwick, Scotland[3]

As they invade Scotland, forces under the command of Edward I massacre the population of Berwick.
1358 Jacquerie Revolts 8,000 Meaux, France

Peasants massacred in aftermath of revolt.
1348 Black Death Scapegoats 6,000 to 16,000 Germany

Jews are blamed as the cause of the Black Death, leading to their massacre in Mainz (up to 12,000) and Strasbourg (4,000).
1398 Massacre of Delhi 100,000 Delhi, India

Massacre of prisoners under Timur Lenk. (Total deaths from his conquests eventually exceed 20 million.)
1415 Agincourt c.5,000 Agincourt, France

So that guards may join the fight, Henry V orders the deaths of 5,000 prisoners of war during the Battle of Agincourt.
1480 Sack of Otranto 12,000 Otranto, Italy

[edit] Modern (from 1500)

[edit] 1500 to World War II

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1520 Stockholm Bloodbath c.100 Stockholm, Sweden

Danish forces invading Sweden under the command of Christian II decapitate around 100 people, mostly nobility and clergy.
1565 Fort Caroline massacre unknown Fort Caroline, Florida, USA

Spanish forces under naval officer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés attack and destroy the French colony of Fort Caroline, killing most of the settlers. (Subsequently the settlement was renamed San Mateo and used as a base from which Menéndez searched for passage across Florida by water.)
1571 Enryaku-ji 3,000 Mount Hiei, Japan
1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 70,000 France

A wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots.
1576 Sack of Antwerp c. 8000 Netherlands

Badly paid Spanish soldiers loot Antwerp.
1580 Siege of Smerwick 600 Smerwick, Ireland

English forces under Elizabeth I behead some 600 Spanish, Italian and Irish men and women during the Desmond Rebellions.
1622 Indian massacre of 1622 c.347 Virginia, USA

Led by Opechancanough, brother of Powhatan, local Native American tribes attack the Virginia Colony destroying virtually all the settlements save the heavily-fortified Jamestown.
1631 Sack of Magdeburg 20,000 Magdeburg, Germany

Troops of the Holy Roman Empire besiege then storm Magdeburg during the Thirty Years' War, massacring nearly all its inhabitants.
1641 Irish Rebellion of 1641 4,000 Ulster, Ireland

English Protestant planters killed by dispossessed Irish Catholics.
1644 Massacre of Aberdeen 118 Aberdeen, Scotland
1644 Massacre of Bolton 1,500 Bolton, England
1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising tens of thousands Poland

Jews, Polish nobles and Uniates killed during a Cossack and peasant uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
1649 Fall of Drogheda at least 1,000 Drogheda, Ireland

Unarmed civilians massacred by Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army[4]
1690 Schenectady Massacre at least 60 Schenectady, New York

Unarmed civilians including women and children massacred by French and Indians [[1]], [[2]]
1711 Tuscaroran attacks unknown North Carolina, USA

The Tuscarora tribe kill an unknown number of settlers along the Chowan and Roanoke Rivers in northeastern North Carolina, prompting the abandonment of New Bern and the beginning of the Tuscarora War.
1715 Yamassee attack unknown South Carolina, USA

Assisted by the Spanish, the Yamassee kill several hundred South Carolinian settlers, triggering the Yamassee War.
1768 Uman massacre unknown Ukraine

Massacre of Poles and Jews in Uman during the Koliyivschyna rebellion.
1778 Wyoming Valley massacre at least 30 Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, USA

An encounter between Patriot and Loyalist Americans, after which thirty or more Patriots were massacred by Iroquois mercenaries.
Cherry Valley massacre 33 Cherry Valley, New York, USA

Iroquois warriors raid a village, killing and scalping civilians.
1780 Waxhaw massacre c.113[5] Waxhaws

Most deaths took place in battle, but British Colonel Banastre Tarleton is alleged to have overseen the massacre of Virginians as they attempted to surrender.
1782 Gnadenhutten massacre 96 Gnadenhutten, Ohio, USA Pennsylvanian militia execute Christian Lenape non-combatants, mostly women and children.
1794 Praga massacre 10,000 to 20,000 Praga, Warsaw, Poland Kościuszko Uprising: Russian troops massacre civilians as they loot and burn Praga following their victory in battle.
1798 Gibbet Rath massacre 350 Kildare, Ireland Irish Rebellion of 1798: Rebels surrender but are massacred by British troops.
1812 Badajoz massacre unknown Badajoz, Spain Napoleonic Wars: Following the capitulation of Badajoz after a four-week siege, British troops loot the city for three days and kill inhabitants.
Fort Dearborn massacre c.46 Fort Dearborn[6], USA US troops and citizens under British and American Indian guarantees of safe passage are attacked by Potawatomi Indians as they retreat toward Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1813 River Raisin massacre 30 to 60 Monroe, Michigan, USA Indians scalp American prisoners taken during the Battle of Frenchtown.
1822 Chios Massacre c.42,000 Chios / Psara islands[7]

Reprisals after the Greek Christian population rebel against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 Salsipuedes Genocide 40 to 300 Uruguay

President Fructuoso Rivera oversees the slaughter of Charrua chiefs; the Charruas are subsequently exterminated.
1838 Myall Creek massacre 28 Australia

Aborigines murdered by white stockmen as revenge for lost cattle.
1838 Haun's Mill massacre 17 Missouri, USA

Mormon men and boys killed by over 200 militia.
1838 Weenen massacre c.300 South Africa

Zulus massacre Voortrekker men, women and children.
1847 Whitman massacre unknown near Walla Walla, Washington, USA

The Cayuse attack a medical mission established by Marcus Whitman.
1848 Rabacja massacre unknown Galicia

Polish peasants massacre nobles.[8]
1852 Bridge Gulch massacre c.150 to 300 Hayfork, California, USA

A posse from Weaverville attacks an undefended Wintu village.
1853 Gunnison massacre unknown Utah, USA

An exploration party led by John W. Gunnison is massacred by Pahavant Utes.
1857 Mountain Meadows massacre 120 Utah, USA

A wagon train of farming families from Arkansas is killed by Mormon militia.
1864 Sand Creek massacre c.150 Colorado Territory, USA

United States Cavalry troops attack an undefended Cheyenne/Arapaho village.
1873 Cypress Hills massacre 16 to 23 Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada

Assiniboine (Nakoda) people killed by wolf hunters; one hunter killed.
1876 Batak massacre c.5,000 Batak[9]

As part of the reprisals following the April Uprising, bashi-bazouks (Ottoman army irregulars) massacre Bulgarian men, women and children barricaded in Batak's church. More than 7,000 others are massacred throughout Bulgaria.
1890 Beothuk massacres to extinction? Newfoundland
1895-1897 Hamidian massacres 80,000 to 300,000 Ottoman Empire

On the orders of Abdul Hamid II, Ottoman forces massacre Armenians living in Anatolia.
1903 Kishinev pogrom 45 Chişinău[10]
1904 Herero and Namaqua Genocide c.65,000 German South West Africa

German colonial attempt to exterminate the Herero and Namaqua peoples, directed by General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha.
1915-1917 Armenian Genocide c.400,000 to 1.5 million Ottoman Empire

Forced evacuation and mass killing of Anatolian Armenians during the Young Turks' government.
1915-1918 Assyrian Genocide c.275,000 Ottoman Empire

The Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish forces.
1916-1919 Pontian Greek Genocide c.353,000 Ottoman Empire

Massacres of Pontic Greeks by the Young Turks' government.
1923, January Rosewood massacre c.17 Rosewood, Florida, USA

Black people were killed by white mobs.
1923 Kantō massacre c.2,700 to 6,415 Kantō region, Japan

Korean and Okinawan immigrants blamed for looting and arson in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake.
1929 Hebron massacre c.67 Palestine

An Arab mob wipes out Hebron's old Jewish settlement.
1931-1945 Japanese biological warfare program 3,000 to 200,000[11] East Asia

An official program of medical experimentation on humans that resulted in thousands of deaths during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.[12]
1932 La Matanza c.30,000 El Salvador

Having crushed a peasants' rebellion, the military government sanctions the massacre of indigenous peoples.
1933 Simele massacre c.3,000 Iraq

The first ever massacre conducted by the Iraqi government takes places in the North, targeting Assyrian Christians.
1937 Nanking Massacre c.300,000 China

Six weeks of rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians during the Japanese Imperial Army's occupation of Nanjing in World War II
1937-1938 Great Purge 680,000 to 1.3 million Soviet Union

Stalinist purges aimed at ethnic minorities and perceived dissidents.
1938 Kristallnacht 36 to 200 Germany[13]

The major pre-war anti-Jewish pogrom.
1939 Bromberg Bloody Sunday up to 8,000 Bydgoszcz, Poland

A combination of the 350 to 5,000 ethnic Germans killed during the Polish Defensive War and the subsequent massacre of c.3,000 Polish civilians in reprisal.
1941 Białystok Massacre 2,200 Poland

In one of the first massacres of Jews during World War II, the German reserve Police Battalion 309 herd the Jews of Białystok into the city's central synagogue and set fire to it. Those trying to flee are shot.
Jedwabne Pogrom 380 to 1600 Poland

Jewish residents of Jedwabane and its environs are marched into the center of the village, where they are beaten and killed by a number of their fellow townsmen. Some sources suggest German police and/or military involvement.
Babi Yar 33,771 Ukraine

As reprisal for acts of sabotage they did not commit, the Jewish population of Kiev was marched in small groups to a ditch at Babi Yar and machine-gunned.
Ponaren c.100,000 Lithuania

Jewish and Polish citizens of Vilnius marched to Ponary Woods and shot by Lithuanian police units (the "Ponary Rifles") under German supervision. 40,000 were killed in 1941 alone.
Dnipropetrovsk 12,000 Ukraine

Most of the remaining Jews in the city are marched to a ravine and massacred by Einsatzkommando 6.
Odessa massacre 36,000 Ukraine

Mass shootings of the Jews of Odessa.
Ninth Fort 9,000 Lithuania

Those Jews of Kaunas unable to work – including women and children – are marched to the Ninth Fort and shot. (Over 40,000 Jews will eventually be killed there.)
Rumbula Forest 25,000 Latvia

Over the course of a week, the Jews of Riga are taken to Rumbula Forest and shot.
Simferopol 10,000 Crimea

Mass shooting of Jews. Thereafter, Jews in the region are transported to extermination camps rather than shot.
1942-1944 Warsaw Concentration Camp 200,000 Warsaw, Poland

Non-Jewish population of Warsaw systematically shot or gassed in provisional gas chambers.
1942 Pinsk 16,000 Belarus

Mass executions of Jews.
1944-1945 Chameria issue c.2,000 Chameria[14]

Greek royalist militias battle Pro-German Muslims during the liberation from the Nazi German occupation. Over 25,000 Muslims flee to Albania.
1944 Vojvodina massacre c.34,500 Serbia

Mass executions of Hungarian civilians by Serbian communist partisans.
1944 Malmedy massacre 72-84 Belgium

Executions of surrendered American POW's during the Battle of the Bulge.
1945 Ústí massacre c.80 Czechoslovakia

Czech soldiers lynch ethnic Germans.
1946 Direct Action Day c.4000 British India

Riots perpetrated by the Muslim League against Hindus in Calcutta which spread to other regions and was followed by the Noakhali Massacre

[edit] Contemporary

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1962 Oran massacre c.2,000 to 3,500 Algeria

Arabs lynch European, Jewish and pro-French Algeria Harkis Muslim civilians.
1969 Killevanamani massacre c.35 Tamil Nadu, India

Farm laborers and their families are burnt alive by their higher-caste landlords.
1984 Anti-Sikh Riots[15] c.2,733 to 4,000 Delhi, India

Mobs massacre Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
1988 Sumgait Pogrom at least 32 (26 Armenians and 6 Azeris) Sumgait, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijanis launch a three-day pogrom against Armenians in the city of Sumgait.
1988 Massacre of political prisoners at least 5000 Iran

Political prisoners, some already sentenced, some waiting for court and even those who were earlier sentenced, jailed and freed were gathered in special prison quarters. They were retried according to direct orders from Ayatollah Khomeini by three member judging committees. Between 5000-30000 murdered. Mostly buried in secret places, some of which later exposed.
1994 Rwandan Genocide 937,000 Rwanda

Hutus massacre Tutsis.
1995 Srebrenica massacre 8,000 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Massacre of male Bosniaks primarily by the Army of Republika Srpska; the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
1996 Port Arthur massacre 35 Australia

Martin Bryant kills 35 people around Port Arthur, Tasmania and wounds 37 before being caught by police the next day following an overnight siege.
2000 Titanic Express massacre 21 Mageyo, Burundi

Burundian Hutu extremists ambush a civilian bus close to the capital Bujumbura, releasing the Hutu passengers before killing the Tutsi and foreign passengers.
2002 Kaluchak Massacre 31 Jammu, India

31 civilians and military personnel killed by Islamic terrorists from Pakistan
2002 Gujarat violence c.800 to 2,000 Gujarat, India

Sectarian violence following the Godhra Train Burning.
2002 Itaba massacre 173 to 267 Itaba, Burundi

The Burundian Army massacres between 173 and 267 Hutu villagers, allegedly in reprisal for rebel attacks.
2003 Darfur conflict c.400,000 Sudan

Ongoing massacre and forced displacement of the Fur people of Western Sudan by government-sponsored Janjaweed militia.
2004 Yelwa massacre c.630 Nigeria

Muslim nomads killed by Christians during ongoing violence in Nigeria.
2004 Gatumba massacre 152 Burundi

Congolese Tutsis are shot, hacked and burned to death during an attack on a refugee camp by Hutu extremists.
2005 Muhuta Church massacre 6 Bujumbura, Burundi
2005 Turbi village massacre c.73 Turbi, Kenya

Gunmen, believed to be Borana, open fire on Gabra children making their way to the village's primary school.

[edit] Massacres during armed conflicts

To be a massacre, the event must fall outside the laws of war as framed at the time of the massacre.

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1832 Bad Axe River c.Unknown Bad Axe River, Wisconsin [US] Illinois militia under the command of General Henry Atkinson attack a Sauk camp at the mouth of Bad Axe River where many Sauk women and children are killed in the fighting. Shortly after, the Winnebago would abandon Black Hawk, forcing him and the Sauk to surrender several weeks later ending the Black Hawk War.
1836 Goliad massacre 342 Goliad, Texas Mexican army executes Texan prisoners of war.
1847 San Patricios 50 Chapultepec, Mexico United States Army executes Irish prisoners of war who defended Mexico.
1857 Cawnpore c.200 Cawnpore, India During the Sepoy Rebellion the British garrison at Cawnpore agreed to abandon the post under the agreement they would be granted a safe escort by Nana Sahib. However as they left the city the men were immediately massacred and 200 women and children were held in the Bibi-Ghar (House of the Women) where they were killed on July 15, 1857. When the British recaptured Cawnpore they reportedly forced each Sepoy prisoner to lick one square foot of the bloodstained floor where the massacres took place before being hanged.
1863 Lawrence Massacre c.150 Lawrence, Kansas Confederate raiders under William Quantrill loot and burn the town killing over 150 men and boys.
1864 Fort Pillow c.354 Fort Pillow, Tennessee After Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest demand of the surrender of Union Fort Pillow was refused Forrest's forces assaulted the fort defenses in a particularly violent battle until a white flag was flown by the Union defenders. However Confederate forces continued firing upon the surrendering soldiers killing or wounding over 354 of the 580 men.
1873 Canby Massacre c.4 Four of seven Americans as part of a peace delegation led by General E. R. S. Canby, under the pretext of peace negotiations, are killed by Modoc leader Captain Jack during the Modoc War.
1890 Wounded Knee massacre 153–300 Wounded Knee, South Dakota Last confrontation of US troops and the Great Sioux Nation
1901 Samar campaign Samar,Philippines During the Philippine-American War, while the Philippines were a colonial possession of the USA, Filipinos armed with machetes kill all American soldiers from the garrison of the port of Balangiga on the island of Samar (see Balangiga massacre).
1918 March Days 3,000–12,000 Baku, Azerbaijan Equating the Azerbaijanis to the Ottoman Turks, Dashnak and Bolshevik forces massacre ethnic Azerbaijanis in revenge for the Armenian Genocide.
1918 September Days 10,000–20,000 Baku, Azerbaijan Enver Pasha's Army of Islam supported by local Azeri forces recaptures Baku and subsequently massacres ethnic Armenians in retaliation for the March Days.
February 19-21, 1937 Addis Ababa 3,000 Ethiopia by Italian soldiers
1937-1938 Nanjing Massacre (Rape of Nanking) 100,000-300,000 China Committed by the Japanese Imperial Army in the aftermath of the Battle of Nanking. A six-week long orgy of murder, rape and looting followed the seizure of the city by the Japanese Imperial Army.
1937 Bombing of Gernika est. 1,650 Spain Bombers of the Condor Legion attack the Basque city of Gernika during the Spanish Civil War, killing 1,650 men, women and children.
1939 Wawer 107 Poland 120 men caught in a Łapanka shot as a reprisal for death of two German soldiers, 13 of them survived the massacre under the pile of bodies.
1939-1940 Palmiry massacre c.2,000 Poland Gestapo murder systematically members of Polish intelligentsia, sportsmen, politicians and common people.
1940 Katyn massacre 25,700 Poland Massacre of Polish intelligentsia, POWs and reserve officers by the Soviets.
1940 Treznea massacre c.93 Treznea, N. Transylvania, Hungary Hungarian army massacred Romanian and Jewish civilians.
1940 Ip massacre c.100 Ip, N. Transylvania, Hungary Hungarian massacre of Romanian civilians in Northern Transylvania.
1940 Bombing of Coventry 568 Britain Luftwaffe bombers attack the city of Coventry and destroy half of it. Since then the word Coventry became synonymum of Aerial bombing.
1941 Fântâna Albă massacre c.200 Soviet Union Soviet massacre of Romanian civilians in Northern Bukovina.
1941 Bombing of Belgrade in World War II 17,000 Yugoslavia Germans bomb Belgrade, killing 17,000 people. Belgrade was bombed again in 1944, this time by the Allies.
1941 Belfast Blitz 1,000 Northern Ireland 200 German bombers attack Belfast and destroy half of the city. 1,000 die and 100,000 are left homeless.
June, 1941 Rainiai massacre 79 Soviet Union Soviet soldiers and NKVD tortures to death 78-79 Lithuanian civilians (former public servants, rich people, Boy Scouts, non-communists).
1941 Massacre of Lwów professors 45 Lwów, Poland Part of the AB Action, forty-five university professors are executed by an Einsatzkommado unit following the German capture of the city on June 30.
1941 Kragujevac 4,000 Serbia Reprisal killings by German forces after the death of 10 soldiers at the hands of partisans.
1942 Sook Ching massacre c.50,000-100,000 (Singapore only) Malaya & Singapore Japanese troops execute ethnic Chinese Malayans and Singaporeans suspected of being hostile.
1942 Bataan Death March 5,650 Philippines American and Philippine POWs are marched to prison camps and killed if they fall behind.
1942 Lidice 340 Lidice, Czechoslovakia After Czech agents, with British assistance, assassinate Nazi Protector of Bohemia-Morovia, and former Deputy Chief of the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich the small village Lidice (in Czech lands) is surrounded by the German SS and all men and teenagers over 16 are rounded up and shot. The remaining women and children are sent to concentration camps and the village is destroyed.
1943 Khatyn massacre 100+ Belarus The entire village in Belarus is burnt with all its inhabitants by the German Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators; one of hundreds Belarusian and Russian villages to share the similar fate.
1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia c.100,000 Ukraine By Ukrainian nationalists
1943 Canicatti slaughter 12 Sicily US Troops kill unarmed civilians at a soap factory.
1943 Biscari massacre 76 Sicily US Troops massacre German and Italian POWs.
1943 Bombing of Hamburg in World War II 35,000 Germany 730 British bombers drop 9,000 tons of bombs on Hamburg. The bombing created a firestorm which destroyed much of the city. Between 35,000 and 45,000 civilians died and 1 million were left homeless.
1943 Foiba massacre 5,000-10,000 Istria and Dalmatia in Italy Communist troops under Tito's command purge Italian fascists and collaborators until 1947.
1943 Kalavryta massacre 696 Greece The male residents of the town are slaughtered by German troops in revenge for partisan activities.
1944 Manila massacre 100,000 Philippines Retreating Japanese troops slaughter at least 100,000 Filipino civilians. Manila is razed, making it the 2nd most devastated city in WWII after Warsaw.
1944 Koniuchy massacre 38-300 Poland Civilians of Koniuchy murdered by 120-150 members of Soviet partisan groups.
1944 Ascq massacre c.86 France After two railway cars are derailed, presumably by the French Underground, soldiers of the 12th SS Panzer Division under the command of SS Obersturmführer Walter Hauck murder 86 men in the surrounding area of the Ascq railway station.
1944 Kakolyri (of Kyme) massacre 30 Greece 24 male residents of the village are slaughtered by German troops, as suspects of helping partisan activities. The partisans killed one soldier who was guarding a bridge. 6 male residents of the nearby villages are slaughtered too.
1944 Abbey Ardenne c.100+ France Canadian POWs who were captured during the battle were marched out into a garden and interrogated before being shot by members of the 12th SS Panzer Division.
1944 Tulle Murders c.99 France In response to French Underground activity the 2nd SS Panzer Division, upon finding mutilated remains of 64 garrison soldiers of the 95th Security Regiment, 99 men are hanged and the remaining population of Tulle sent to work labor camps in Germany. Of the 149 townspeople only 48 survived the war.
June 10, 1944 Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre 642 France Responding to recent French Underground activity in which two German soldiers were killed, 120 SS soldiers of the 2nd SS Panzer Division, commanded by SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, execute 642 men, women, and children of the town of Oradour.
1944 Distomo massacre est. 228-600 Greece More than 200 residents of the village of Distomo are massacred by the Germans. The exact number of the victims remain unknown.
1944 San Polo di Arezzo Massacre 48 Italy After attacking Italian partisans and civilians who held some German prisoners at Molin dei Falchi, the German soldiers took revenge. They gathered all the men of the nearby village of San Polo, brutally beat and tortured them, and took them to a nearby field. They were made to dig three pit graves and were then thrown in still alive. The partisans were placed in the pits with their heads above ground and with explosive charges attached to their bodies. They were then blown apart. The Germans did not allow anyone to bury the dead. (For details see Eugenio Calo).
1944 Wola massacre up to 50,000 Warsaw, Poland German troops systematically slaughter most of civilians in the borough of Wola during the early stage of the Warsaw Uprising.
1944 Meligala massacre 1,500 Greece ELAS communist fighters attack the village of Meligala and massacre 1,500 men, women and children. Their bodies were thrown into a large well, known as the "Pigada of Meligala". Many of the victims were collaborators of the Germans (see Greek Civil War).
1944 Putten Atrocity 39 Netherlands General Heinz Helmuth von Wuhlisch orders the execution of 39 Dutch civilians and the village burned after an attack by the Dutch resistance results in the capture of a German soldier despite the later release of the hostage. The remaining men in the village are sent to labor camps and out of 589 only 49 survive the end of the war.
1944 Bombing of Braunschweig in World War II c.600 Germany RAF bombers bomb the medieval city of Braunschweig, killing 600 people. 90% of the city is destroyed and 23,000 people are left homeless.
1944 Amsterdam Reprisal 29 Netherlands 29 Dutch civilians are executed as well as several buildings set on fire after the assassination of S.D. officer Herbert Oelschagel by the Dutch resistance the previous day.
1944 Malmédy massacre 80 Belgium Massacre of American POWs.
1945 Sandakan Death March 2,431 Malaysia Captured Australian POWs are forced to march great distances, combined with torture and forced labor.
1945 Chenogne massacre 60 Belgium In reprisal for the Malmedy massacre sixty German soldiers are executed by a unit of the U.S. 11th Armored Division outside the town of Chenogne.
1945 Bombing of Dresden in World War II 25,000-400,000 Germany The city of Dresden is bombed and razed to the ground by American and British bombers. It is considered one of the most controversial Allied actions of the war. Exact figures are unknown but estimates range between 25,000-400,000 civilians dead and 24,000 buildings destroyed.
1945 Bombing of Kobe in World War II 8,840 Japan American B-29 bombers attack the city of Kobe. 8,840 civilians die and 650,000 are left homeless.
1945 Dachau massacre 560 Germany Soldiers of the US 157th Regiment kill 560 German and Waffen-SS POWs remaining in the recently liberated Dachau concentration camp.
1945 Bleiburg massacre 55,000-300,000 Yugoslavia Partisans retaliate against Ustashe, Domobrans, and many Croat civilians.
1945 SS Cap Arcona sinking <1,000 Germany Nazis kill survivors making it ashore following the sinking of the ships SS Cap Arcona, the Thielbek, and the Deutschland full of concentration camp Neuengamme's POWs.
1945 Setif Massacre 150 pied-noirs
1,500–45,000 Algerians		 Algeria
1945 Sado Atrocity 387 Sado, Japan Japanese soldiers under Lieutenant Yoshiro Tsuda set off an explosion in a nearby gold mine, killing the 387 British, American, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war which had been working the mine since 1942.
1945 Treuenbrietzen c.1000 Germany Red army soldiers execute German civilians.
1947 228 Incident 10,000-30,000 Taiwan Kuomintang government (Chinese) massacred Taiwanese civilians after uprising.
1948 Hadassah medical convoy massacre c.77 Palestine
1948 Deir Yassin massacre 107 Mandate for Palestine 120 civilians were killed by the Jewish Zionist groups Irgun and Lehi.
1948 Salha massacre 105 Salha, South Lebanon After forcing the people to gather in the mosque of the village, the Israeli forces ordered them to face the wall, then started shooting them from behind until the mosque was turned into bloodbath.
1949 Hula massacre 90 Hula, South Lebanon The Israeli soldiers slaughtered innocent people as "punishment" for welcoming Palestinian refugees.
1950 Capture of Seoul c.100,000 Korea Civilians executed after the communist capture of Seoul.
1953 Qibya massacre c.50 West Bank
1956 Kafr Qasim massacre 49 Israel
1968 My Lai massacre 347–504 South Vietnam USA soldiers executed 504 unarmed Vietnam villagers ages between 1 and 81, mostly women and children.
1971 1971 East Pakistan Intellectuals massacre c.100 East Pakistan Pakistan Army and local collaborators kill large number of doctors, engineers, educators, journalists, and other intellectuals during the flag end of the Bangladesh War of 1971.
January 18, 1976 Karantina Massacre c.1,000 Karantina, Lebanon Lebanese Christian Militia massacres Kurds and Armenians, as well as some Lebanese and Palestinian in Karantina a district in Beirut Lebanon during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War.
1976 Damour massacre c.330 Damour, Lebanon Palestinian militants raid the Lebanese Christian town of Damour during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War.
1978 Khiam massacre 100 Khiam, South Lebanon The Israeli Army, during the invasion of Lebanon in 1978, invaded the town and killed whomever they met.they didn't leave until they completely destroyed the town.
1981 Fakehane massacre 750 Beirut,Lebanon A horrible massacre took place when Israeli warplanes raided a crowded residential area in Beirut killing hundreds of citizens.
1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre 800–3,000 Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese Christian Militia massacres Palestinian Refugees following Israeli invasion of Beirut.
1987 Ain el Hilwee Camp massacre 64 ain el hilwee,Saida, South Lebanon The Israeli jet fighters launched two bombing raids killing 31 and wounding 41 others. The refugees were hit by a third raid while they were evacuating casualties. Resulting in 34 more being killed.
1992 Khojaly Massacre 613 Khojali, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan Armenian irregulars massacre Azerbaijani civilians.
1992 Maraghar Massacre 145 Maraghar, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan Azerbaijani forces massacre Armenian civilians.
1993 Waco Siege 89 Waco, Texas After a 51 day standoff, 89 men, women, and children of the Branch Davidian sect die in a fire of still disputed origins. While the government and its supporters have maintained that sect leader David Koresh was responsible, critics charged that the government's use of flammable tear gas and tanks against the compound caused the fire, and therefore the U.S. government was responsible.
1993 Sukhumi Massacre 1,200 Abkhazia, Georgia After storming of Sukhumi, Abkhaz Separatists and their allies committed massacre against the remaining Georgian population of the city.
1994 First Markale massacre 68 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Serb army shells crowded civilian marketplace in downtown Sarajevo.
1995 Second Markale massacre 37 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Serb army shells crowded civilian marketplace in downtown Sarajevo.
1996 Qana massacre 106 Qana, South of Lebanon The Israeli Defense Forces shell a UNIFIL post during their conflict with Hezbollah, killing many civilians.
2001 Dasht-i-Leili massacre 250–3,000 Afghanistan Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal truck containers while being transferred between prisons by Northern Alliance soldiers during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

[edit] State-sponsored or state-condoned massacres during peacetime

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1570 Novgorod massacre 10,000-100,000 Novgorod Republic Ivan the Terrible slaughters the population of Novgorod.
1692 Massacre of Glencoe 78 Scotland

The order was signed by King William II
1770 Boston massacre 5 British colony, now US state of Massachusetts Pre- American Revolution, British soldiers open fire upon a hostile crowd. The soldiers were later acquitted by an all American colonist jury.
1905 Bloody Sunday 100-1000 Saint Petersburg, Russia
August 16, 1819 Peterloo massacre 11 Manchester, England
1909 Adana massacre >2,000 Adana, Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid loyalists massacre Armenians.
1918 Romanov massacre c.10 Yekaterinburg, Russia Bolshevik execution of Nicholas II and the Russian royal household.
1919 March 1st Movement 7,509 Korea Japanese troops and police opened fire on Korean protesters marching peacefully on the street calling for the independence of Korea and investigation on the sudden death of Emperor Gojong.
1919 Amritsar massacre c.>379 India British troops led by Brigadier General Reginald Dyer fired 1650 rounds of ammunitions into a crowd of 20,000 people gathered in a garden with its sole exit blocked to prevent people from escaping.
1921 Tulsa Race Riot 39+ Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA White mobs invaded and burned the segregated black Greenwood district. The governor declared martial law, black people were rounded up by the National Guard and put into the internment camps. Whites in airplanes shot at black refugees and dropped explosives onto them.
1930 Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre c.200 Peshawar British troops fire on non-violent protesters in Peshawar in there hundreds.
1932 Bonus March 4-5 Washington, D.C., U.S. General Douglas MacArthur, under order of President Hoover, sent in federal cavalry troops with rifles and tear gas to evict the Bonus Marchers and destroyed their camps. Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton were also ordered to take part in the operation. Hundreds of veterans were injured, several were killed, including William Hushka and Eric Carlson, a wife of a veteran miscarried, and other such casualties were inflicted.
October 20, 1944 Gorla Massacre c.232 Milan, Italy Allied bombing in Milan hit a primary school, killing hundreds of children.
1948 Babra Sharif massacre c.100 Pakistan
1948 Jeju massacre 30,000 Korea
1950 Taejon massacre 7,000 Korea
1955 6 - 7 Septembers massacares >28 killed, 30 injured, 300 reped IstanbulTurkey Killing member of Greek community by civilians Turk's during riots against Christianity
1954-1962 Algerian massacre >500,000 Algeria Killing of Algerian civilians by French Army and the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence.
1960 Sharpeville massacre 69 killed, 180+ injured South Africa Police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters.
1961 Paris Massacre of 1961 32-200[3] Paris, France Killing of Algerian demonstrators
1962 Novocherkassk massacre 24 killed, 39 injured Novocherkassk, Soviet Union police opened fire on a crowd of protesters against inflation
1962 Palma Sola massacre "thousands" [4] Dominican Republic Dominican military destroy the town of Palma Sola, the base of the (mostly Afro-Dominican) political and religious dissident movement known as the Liboristas
1965-1966 September 30th massacre and aftermath 500,000-1 million Indonesia Suharto massacres communists and dissidents in rural areas
1968 Orangeburg massacre 3 South Carolina State University, USA
1968 Tlatelolco massacre 200–300 Mexico Mexican soldiers open fire on student demonstrators.
1970 Kent State massacre 4 Kent State University, Ohio, USA
1971 Massacre of Bangladesh c.250,000 Bangladesh Pakistani Army killed c.250,000 Bangladeshis.
1971 Corpus Christi massacre c.25 Mexico City Special forces open fire on student demonstrators.
1972 Bloody Sunday 14 Derry, Northern Ireland Shooting of 28 unarmed Irish Catholic Civilians, 14 of whom died, by Paratroop Regiment of the British Army following a protest march at the introduction of internment without trial.
1976-1983 Argentina's Dirty War/ La Guerra Sucia up to 30,000 Argentina Jorge Rafael Videla's military government tortured and killed dissident citizens, journalists, and professors as part of a wider continental plan of state terrorism called Operation Condor supported by the U.S. State Department, led by Henry Kissinger under Richard Nixon's presidency.
1980 Gwangju massacre 191–250–2000 Gwangju, South Korea Government troops attack protesting students and civilians of Gwangju.
1981 El Mozote massacre c.900 El Salvador Government troops torture and kill the residents of El Mozote.
1982 Hama massacre 5000-20,000 Syria Syrian government troops attack rebel town of Hama, poison gas was used in some areas.
1983 Black July massacre 1,000-3,000 Sri Lanka Sri Lankan government soldiers along with Sinhalese mobs and goon squads massacre innocent Tamil civilians.
1983, 1989 The Gukurahundi c.25,000 Zimbabwe Genocide, and suppression of dissident tribal areas by Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean Fifth Brigade.
1988 Halabja poison gas attack 3,000-5,000 Iraq Gas attack on Kurdish town by Saddam Hussein.
1988 Massacre of political prisoners at least 5,000 Iran Political prisoners, some already sentenced, some waiting for court and even those who were earlier sentenced, jailed and freed were gathered in special prison quarters. They were retried according to direct orders from Ayatollah Khomeini by three member judging committees. Between 5000-30000 murdered. Mostly buried in secret places, some of which later exposed.
1989 April 9 tragedy c.20 Soviet Union Soviet military troops attacked Georgian demostrators in Tbilisi, Georgia
1989 Tiananmen massacre up to 2,600 Beijing, China Chinese PLA troops open fire on students and civilians gathered in Beijing.
1990 Black January 133 Soviet Union Soviet military troops attacked Azeri protest demonstrations, passer-bys and emergency squad members in Baku, Azerbaijan
1991 Vilnius massacre 13 Vilnius, Lithuania Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters.
1991 Medininkai massacre 7 Medininkai, Lithuania Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian customs building.
1991 Dili massacre 271 Dili, East Timor Timorese protesting Indonesian rule are killed by Indonesian soldiers.
1991 Ovčara massacre 260 Vukovar, Croatia Serbian forces killed 260 wounded civilians, soldiers and Vukovar hospital personnel after the downfall of the city.
1994 13 de Marzo 41 Cuba refugees drown after confrontation with Cuban Navy.
1995 Candelaria Church Massacre c.8 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Police retaliate against street children at orphanage, leading to worldwide criticism.
1995 Aguas Blancas massacre 17 Aguas Blancas, Mexico Motorized Police kill protesters who demand some rights and the release of a prisoner.
1997 Acteal massacre 45 Acteal, Mexico Allegedly government-linked paramilitaries attack a prayer meeting professing support for the goals of EZLN rebels.
1999 Liquica Church Massacre Over 200 East Timor Pro-Indonesian Militia group attack several hundred East Timorese civilians that had gathered for safety at the Liquica Catholic Church. Using machetes and automatic rifles, over 200 are killed. Indonesia later claims only 60 were killed, and disposed of most of the bodies by throwing them into the sea, nearby swamp, and remote jungle areas.

[edit] Politically motivated non-governmental massacres

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1856 Pottawatomie massacre 5 Franklin County, Kansas Radical abolitionist John Brown murders pro-slavery men with swords in "Bleeding Kansas"
1872 Going Snake Massacre 22 Oklahoma Territory Ten US Marshals are ambushed by over thirty Cherokee men during their attempt to arrest a murder suspect. Eight of the Marshals are killed. Fourteen Cherokee men were killed.
1873 Colfax massacre 100 Colfax, Louisiana
1929 1929 Hebron massacre 67 Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine Arabs kill 67 Jews in Hebron.
1929 1929 Safed massacre 18 Safed, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine Arabs kill 18 Jews in Safed.
1972 Lod Airport massacre 26 Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel Japanese terrorists open fire at civilians in the Ben-Gurion Airport near Lod, Israel. 26 are killed and 78 more injured.
1972 Bloody Friday 9 Belfast, Northern Ireland Explosion of 22 bombs in 90 minutes by Provisional Irish Republican Army in and around central Belfast in an attempt to bring normal life in the City to an end. The bombings killed seven civilians, two British soldiers and seriously injured 130 other people.
1972 Munich massacre 12 Munich, Germany Palestinian terrorists kidnap and kill Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
1974 Kiryat Shmona massacre 18 Kiryat Shmona, Israel Palestinian terrorists kill Israeli residents in Kiryat Shmona.
1974 Ma'alot massacre 21 Ma'alot, Israel Palestinian terrorists kill 21 elementary school students in Ma'alot.
1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings 33 Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland. Three bombs planted in the Republic of Ireland by the Ulster Volunteer Force. Worst number of casualties in any single day of The Troubles.
1974 Birmingham Pub bombings 21 Birmingham, England The Provisional IRA explode two bombs in busy public houses killing 21 civilians, more than half of whom were under the age of 25. Until the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, this was Britain's worst act of mass murder.
1979 Greensboro massacre 5 Greensboro, North Carolina Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration.
1987 Remembrance Day massacre 11 Enniskillen, Northern Ireland The Provisional IRA explodes a bomb targeted at a civilian war commemoration ceremony in the centre of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
1988 The Strijdom Square massacre 8 Pretoria, South Africa 8 people shot and killed (16 wounded) by right wing extremist Barend Strydom.
1993 Shankill Road bombing 9 Belfast, Northern Ireland The Provisional IRA massacres eight civilians and one of its own terrorists by exploding a bomb in a fish shop on the Shankill Road on a busy Saturday afternoon. The massacre sparks a series of reprisals by Loyalist terrorists.
1994 Second Hebron massacre 29 Hebron, West Bank Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein opens fire on a group of Palestinian Muslims praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs site.
1994 Shell House Massacre 3 - 19 Johannesburg, South Africa ANC security guards open fire at IFP supporters approaching the ANC headquarters.
1995 Atiak massacre 170 – 220 Gulu District, Uganda Civilians killed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
1996 Acholpii massacre c.100 Pader District, Uganda Sudanese refugees in a refugee settlement killed by Lord's Resistance Army .
1997 Lokung/Palabek massacre c.412 Kitgum District, Uganda Civilians bludgeoned or hacked to death by the Lord's Resistance Army.
1997 Thalit massacre 52 Thalit, Algeria
1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre 93 Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti, Algeria
1997 Dairat Labguer massacre c.50 Dairat Labguer, Algeria
1997 Souhane massacre 64 Souhane, Algeria
1997 Rais massacre c.200 Rais, Algeria
1997 Bentalha massacre >200 Bentalha, Algeria
1997 Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997 412 4 villages near Souk El Had, Algeria
1998 Wandhama massacre 24 Wandhama, India 24 Kashmiri Pandits are brutally murdered by Pakistani militants .
1998 Sidi Hamed massacre 103 Sidi Hamed, Algeria
1998 Omagh Bombing 29 (or 31) Omagh, Northern Ireland Irish republicans opposed to the Northern Ireland Peace Process explode a car bomb following an inaccurate warning which lead to people being guided towards the bomb rather than away from it. This was the biggest massacre in any single incident in Northern Ireland related to The Troubles. (The number of dead is sometimes stated as 31 as one of those murdered was a woman pregnant with twins).
1998 Tadjena massacre 42 Algeria
2001 Sbarro restaurant massacre 15 Jerusalem, Israel Suicide bombing committed by a Palestinian terrorist in a crowded restaurant in Jerusalem, Israel.
2001 September 11, 2001 attacks 2,973+19 New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania (United States) Al-Qaeda hijacks 4 U.S. commercial airliners for use in a suicide bombing attack on major American targets. Two planes struck the twin towers at the World Trade Center in New York, causing the majority of the deaths; one hit the Pentagon; and another plane was downed in a Pennsylvania field by its hijackers when passengers rushed the cockpit.
2002 Bojaya massacre 117 Bojayá, Colombia Terrorist organization FARC throw an explosive into a church full of people
2002 Passover massacre 30 Netanya, Israel Arab suicide bomber kills civilians.
2002 2002 Bali Bombing 202 Bali,Indonesia The 2002 Bali Bombing occurred in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring a further 209.
2003 Jerusalem bus 2 massacre 23 Jerusalem, Israel Suicide bombing committed by a Palestinian terrorist in a crowded bus in Jerusalem, Israel.
2003 Maxim restaurant massacre 21 Haifa, Israel
2004 Barlonyo massacre >200 Barlonyo, Lira District, Uganda Civilians at an IDP camp are murdered by the Lord's Resistance Army.
2004 Ashoura massacre c.170 Karbala, Baghdad, (Iraq)
2004 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings 191 Madrid, (Spain) Islamic terrorists apparently linked to Al-Qaida plant several bombs aboard four commuter trains in Madrid
2004 Beslan school massacre 344 Beslan, (Russia)
2005 2005 Bali Bombings 23 Bali,Indonesia Bombs exploded at two sites in Jimbaran and Kuta, both in south Bali. Twenty-three people were killed, including three bombers.
2005 7 July 2005 London bombings 55 London Series of four suicide bomb explosions strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour.
2006 Hay al Jihad massacre 40 Baghdad, Iraq Shia militants executed Sunni civilians.

[edit] Labor conflicts

Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1897 Lattimer massacre 19 Hazleton, Pennsylvania Luzerne County Sheriff's posse fires on strikers at the request of mining companies
1892 Homestead lockout/strike 35 Homestead, Pennsylvania Pinkerton guards against striking US Steel laborers in the US bloodiest labor conflict.
1885 Rock Springs Massacre 28 Rock Springs, Wyoming Racially and economically motivated attack by white coal miners on Chinese miners.
1886 Haymarket Riot 12 Chicago, Illinois Bomb tossed amongst police and striking workers
1913 Bloody Sunday 2 Dublin, Ireland Police kill two strikers during the Dublin Lockout
1914 Ludlow massacre 20 Ludlow, Colorado Suppression of a strike by twelve thousand Colorado coal miners.
1919 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada suppression of strikers during the Winnipeg General Strike by the "Special Police."
1928 Massacre of the Bananeras 300-1000 Cienaga, Magdalena Official militar fire against Colombian strikers, workers of the United Fruit Company.
1927 Columbine Mine massacre at least 6 Serene, Colorado 500 striking coal miners, some with their families, were attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes
1931 Ådalen shootings 5 Sweden Swedish military forces open fire against labor demonstrators, killing 5 people

[edit] Criminal and non-political massacres

See also school massacres and "going postal".
Date Name Deaths Location Summary
1927 Bath School disaster 45 Bath Township, Michigan School board member, Andrew Kehoe, upset by a property tax that had been levied to fund the construction of the school building, killed 45 people (including himself) and injured an additional 58 in a bombing at the Bath Consolidated School. This is still the largest school massacre in United States history.
1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre 7 Chicago, Illinois Members of Bugs Moran's gang are murdered by Al Capone's men.
1966 University of Texas Tower Shooting 18 Austin, Texas After killing his mother and wife the night before, Charles Whitman goes on a shooting rampage atop the University of Texas at Austin's observation tower, killing 15 people and injuring 30 before being killed by police.
1978 Jonestown massacre 913 Jonestown, Guyana Peoples Temple cult attacks Rep. Leo Ryan and delegation. After 5 are killed in shootout, Jim Jones leads mass suicide.
1983 Wah Mee massacre 13 Seattle, Washington Fourteen people are shot and 13 killed at a gambling club in Seattle's International District.
1984 McDonald's massacre 22 San Diego, California Twenty-one killed, 19 injured in a shooting rampage at a McDonalds before the gunman is shot dead.
1986 Edmond Postal massacre 15 Edmond, Oklahoma Fired postman Patrick Sherrill shot twenty-one former fellow employees in the Post Office, killing fourteen of them before committing suicide. Between 1986 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed in more than 20 separate incidents involving the United States Postal Service.
1987 Hoddle Street massacre 7 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia In Australia's worst massacre until Port Arthur, 19-year-old Julian Knight shoots seven people dead and wounded another 19 in thirty minutes before surrendering to police.
1987 Hungerford massacre 17 Hungerford, Berkshire, England Michael Ryan went a rampage in a small rural town in England, shooting people at random (including his own mother) with an array of firearms before killing himself.
1987 Queen Street massacre 9 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Gunman shoots eight people dead and injures five before jumping 12 stories to his death.
1988 ESL massacre 7 Sunnyvale, California Richard Farley, former employee of Electromagnetic Systems Labs (ESL), returns to ESL with guns and explosives, killing seven people and injuring three others including Laura Black (a woman he had been stalking for four years).
1989 École Polytechnique massacre 15 Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Violent lovesick misogynist Marc Lépine shoots 14 women dead at an engineering school, shouting "I hate feminists", before killing himself.
1990 Aramoana massacre 13 Aramoana, New Zealand Gun collector David Gray opens fire on residents in a peaceful coastal settlement, killing several before being shot dead by the Armed Offenders Squad.
1991 Strathfield massacre 7 Sydney, Australia Wade Frankum opens fire on random people in a shopping mall, and then takes his own life as police close in.
1992 Central Coast massacre 7 Central Sydney, Australia A gunman shoots dead a his own son, a former ex girlfriend, her sister who was engaged to a police man and was also heavily pregnant,(the baby was also killed), and the girls Father, a couple that had ripped him and the ex girlfriend off financially, and a friend of the former girlfriend was shot in the face (but survived this horrific incident)with a sawn-off shotgun before finally handing himself in.
1993 101 California Street shootings 9 San Francisco, California A gunman kills eight people and injures six with three handguns before turning a concealed fourth handgun on himself.
1996 Dunblane massacre 18 Dunblane, Scotland A gunman murders 16 children and their teacher at a primary school in Scotland before shooting himself dead.
1996 Port Arthur massacre 35 Tasmania, Australia A crazed gunman shoots 35 people dead and injures 37 at the tourist town of Port Arthur, Tasmania in the worst gun rampage ever.
1997 Sanaa massacre 8 Yemen School massacre in Yemen
March 24, 1998 Jonesboro massacre 5 Arkansas, United States Two middle school students attacked their school.
1999 Columbine High School massacre 15 Jefferson County, Colorado, United States Two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, execute a planned shooting rampage killing 12 other students and a teacher before committing suicide.
2001 Nepalese royal family massacre 8 Katmandu, Nepal Prince Dipendra shoots his immediate family and himself at a royal dinner.
2001 Osaka school massacre 8 Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, Japan Former janitor Mamoru Takuma stabbed eight children to death and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers.
2001 Zug massacre 15 Zug, Switzerland Friedrich Leibacher entered the Zug parliament and opened fire, killing three members of the cantonal government and 11 parliamentarians before turning the gun on himself.
2002 Erfurt massacre 17 Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany Robert Steinhäuser, expelled student, enters his former high school and kills 13 teachers, 2 students and a police officer before finally turning a gun on himself.
2005 Red Lake High School massacre 10 Red Lake, Minnesota, United States Jeff Weise kills 9 people and himself on the Red Lake Chippewa Indian reservation.
2006 Goleta Postal massacre 8 Goleta, California, United States Female former postal worker goes on a rampage, shooting dead seven before killing herself.
2006 Capitol Hill massacre 7 Seattle, Washington, United States Aaron Kyle Huff entered a house party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and shot eight people, killing six of them. When confronted by police, Huff killed himself.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ The Holocaust was the systematic persecution, exploitation and slaughter of Jews and other minorities in Europe by the Third Reich and its collaborators. The table below lists specific events that were massacres; the bulk of the slaughter occurred over a period of years in concentration and extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka.
  2. ^ present-day Uzbekistan.
  3. ^ Now within England.
  4. ^ http://www.louthonline.com/html/oliver_cromwell.html
  5. ^ Plus 100+ mortally wounded.
  6. ^ present-day Chicago, Illinois.
  7. ^ Then part of the Ottoman Empire; now part of Greece.
  8. ^ Part of the Revolutions of 1848.
  9. ^ Then part of the Ottoman Empire; now in Bulgaria.
  10. ^ Then in Imperial Russia; now the capital of Moldova.
  11. ^ Chinese, Korean and Allied civilians and POWs.
  12. ^ See also Unit 731.
  13. ^ plus parts of Austria.
  14. ^ Part of Greece.
  15. ^ Also known as "Black November".

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