A List of massacres

A List of massacres 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 & 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. Gibbon Decline & Fall said upto 2,000 were killed . under Roman persecution.
Some say 100,000, there were many big massacres so it could be so, both of them, Revolt 68-73 CE: 1,197,000 Jews killed, says Josephus, 3. 600,000 says Tacitus Revolt 115-116 CE: 220,000 in Cyrene, 240,000. in Cyprus Revolt of 132 CE: 580,000 Total 1,938,500 in the Jewish Wars
194 BCE Hispania Citerior Massacres "multitudes" Spain Roman troops under Cato the Elder massacre Hispania Citerior citizens
150 BCE Lusitanian Massacres c.8,000 Portugal Roman troops under Galba massacre Lusitani citizens after convincing them to surrender.
71 BCE Third Servile War c.6,000 Rome, Surrendering slaves are crucified along the Via Appia c.4 BCE 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.)
518 or 523 Najran massacre unknown Najran
532 Nika riots c.30,000 Byzantine Empire After a sports rivalry turns to a full-scale riot, Emperor Justinian I locks the rioters in the Hippodrome & has them killed.
614 Jerusalem massacres Unknown Jerusalem Persian invaders to massacre up to 90,000 Christians.
686 AD Kingdom of Anglo Saxon Wessex massacre most of the population of the Isle of Wight, killing Jutes, who were also Anglo Saxons, as part of a attempt to wipe out the Pagans there, the last Anglo Saxon territory to convert to Christianity
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 "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 & Jewish inhabitants are 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 & Jewish prisoners taken during the siege.
1209 Albigensian Crusade 20,000 to 100,000 Béziers, France Crusaders slaughter the Cathars. Other civilian slaughters occur in Toulouse & Saint-Nazaire.
1220 Samarkand massacre c.75,000, Khwarezm After the city's surrender, Mongols under Genghis Khan drive out & slaughter its population. Over 75,000 men, women & children perish.
1221 Herat massacre 600,000 Herat Genghis Khan's Mongols destroy the city & massacre the population.
1258 Battle of Baghdad 90,000 to 1,000,000 Baghdad Hulagu Khan's Mongols destroy yet another city & massacre the population.
1268 Siege of Antioch 40,000 Antioch, Syria Sultan Baibars' of Egypt attacks, captures & 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-year 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 & massacres the population.
1296 Massacre of Berwick 30,000 Berwick, Scotland. 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 6/16,000 Germany Jews are blamed as cause of the Plague, leading to their massacre in Mainz (up to 12,000) 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 What were the worst 16th Century regimes ever What were the worst 15th Century regimes ever
1520 Stockholm Bloodbath c.100 Stockholm, Sweden Danish forces invading Sweden under the command of Christian II decapitate around 100 people, mostly nobility & clergy. Spanish forces kill 1/2 of Rome in 1527, in a brutal sacking, They killed maybe 20/50,000,
1571 Enryaku-ji 20,000-30,000 Mount Hiei, Japan Daimyo Oda Nobunaga burned down the monastery of Enryaku-ji (Enryakuji), at the time a cultural symbol. His target was the disobedient Buddhist Tendai warrior monks.
1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 70,000 France A wave of Catholic and royal army violence against the Huguenots.
1576 Sack of Antwerp c. 8,000 Belgium Badly paid Spanish soldiers loot Antwerp.
1580 Siege of Smerwick 600, Ireland English forces under Elizabeth I behead some 600 Spanish, Italian & Irish men & women during Desmond Rebellions.
1622 Indian massacre of 1622 c.347 Virginia, North America 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, 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 12,000 Ulster, Ireland English Protestant planters killed by dispossessed Irish Catholics.
1644 Massacre of Aberdeen 118 Aberdeen, Scotland Royalist troops under Montrose kill civilians after the fall of the city.
1644 Massacre of Bolton 1,500 Bolton, England by Royal army, hating the Parliamentry allied Bolton

1644 Royalist army sacks Argyll massacring 900 civilians, plus 100s more at least.

1651 Sack of Dundee 200 Dundee, Scotland Oliver Cromwell's army under the command of George Monck sack the city. Many more then died of diseases spread as of the attacks. But the claim 2000 were killed in a massacre is a untrue statement. Even a claim that the Governor was executed is deemed a unreliable statement. The General who led this force had been a royalist before in the 1640s and put the next King in power, via a coup, so in a way a royalist act

1648 Khmelnytsky Uprising tens of thousands Poland Jews, Polish nobles & Uniates killed during a Cossack & peasant uprising led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
1649 Fall of Drogheda at least 1,000 Drogheda, Ireland City's defenders massacred by Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army
1689 Lachine Massacre at least 68 Lachine, New France Indian warriors burned the small village, killed 24 civilians & took many prisonners, 44 of them were tortured to death. More raids of this kind were to take place later.
1690 Schenectady Massacre at least 60 Schenectady, New York Unarmed civilians including women & children massacred by French & Indians
1711 Tuscaroran attacks unknown North Carolina, North America The Tuscarora tribe kill an unknown number of settlers along the Chowan & Roanoke Rivers in northeastern North Carolina, prompting the abandonment of New Bern & the beginning of the Tuscarora War.
1715 Yamassee attack South Carolina, North America Assisted by the Spanish, Yamassee kill several hundred South Carolinian settlers, triggering Yamassee War.
1768 Massacre of Uman 12,000 - 20,000 Ukraine Massacre of Poles & Jews in Uman during the Koliyivschyna rebellion.
1778 Wyoming Valley massacre at least 180 to 227 Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, USA An encounter between Patriot & 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 & scalping civilians.
1782 Gnadenhutten massacre 96 Gnadenhutten, Ohio, USA Pennsylvanian militia execute Christian Lenape non-combatants, mostly women & children.
1792 September Massacres 1,000 to 1,500 Paris, France Prison population of Paris was killed in a wave of mob violence.
1794 Praga massacre 10,000 to 20,000 Praga, Warsaw, Poland Kosciuszko Uprising: Russian troops massacre civilians as they loot & 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 & kill inhabitants. Fort Dearborn massacre c.46 Fort Dearborn, USA US troops & citizens under British & 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 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 & boys killed by over 200 militia.
1838 Weenen massacre c.300 South Africa Zulus massacre Voortrekker men, women & children.
1842 Massacre of Elphinstone's army 16,000 Afghanistan Afghan tribesmen slaughter British & Indian troops & civilians.
1847 Whitman massacre 17 near Walla Walla, Washington, USA The Cayuse attack a medical mission established by Marcus Whitman.
1848 Rabacja massacre unknown Galicia Polish peasants massacre nobles.
1852 Bridge Gulch massacre c.150 to 300 Hayfork, California, USA A posse from Weaverville attacks an undefended Wintu village.
1853 Gunnison massacre 8 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 As part of the reprisals following the April Uprising, bashi-bazouks (Ottoman army irregulars) massacre Bulgarian men, women & children barricaded in Batak's church. More than 7,000 others are massacred throughout Bulgaria.
1890 Beothuk massacres to extinction Newfoundland
1894 Port Arthur massacre (1894) nearly all citizens in this city, about 20,000 Japanese forces kill Chinese servicemen & civilians in Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) in First Sino-Japanese War.
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 Chisinau
1904 Herero & Namaqua Genocide c.65,000 German South West Africa German Kaisers attempt to exterminate Herero & Namaqua peoples, directed by von Trotha.
1915-1917 Armenian Genocide c.400,000 to 1.5 million Ottoman Empire Forced evacuation & mass killing of Anatolian Armenians under right wing Royalists
1915-1918 Assyrian Genocide c.275,000 Ottoman Empire The Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia forcibly relocated & massacred by Ottoman & Kurdish forces.
1916-1919 Menemen massacre c.2.000 Greece Massacres of turkish populataion of Menemen by Greek Army.
1916-1919 Pontian Greek Genocide c.353,000 Ottoman Empire Massacres of Pontic Greeks by the Young Turks' government.
April 13, 1919 Jallianwallah Bagh c.1,200 British India Massacres of innocent Indian civilians by the British officer Rand.
January 1923 Rosewood Massacre 26-150 Rosewood, Florida, USA African American town was burned & residents killed by white mobs.
1923 Kanto massacre c.2,700 to 6,415 Kanto region, Japan Korean & Okinawan immigrants, blamed for looting & arson in the wake of the Great Kanto earthquake, were killed by mobs
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 East Asia An official program of medical experimentation on humans that resulted in thousands of deaths during the Second Sino-Japanese War & World War II.
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.
1937-1938 Great Purge 100,000 to 1.3 million Soviet Union Stalinist purges aimed at ethnic minorities & perceived dissidents.
1938 Kristallnacht 36 to 200 Germany 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 & the subsequent massacre of c.3,000 Polish civilians in reprisal. Before this, many Poles had been expelled from Germany or killed. The most realiable estimates say 170 Poles had been massacred by the time this event ocurred then 100 innocent Germans were, plus killings of rebels in action, and almost legitamate executions, then 3000 Poles were executed.
1941 Bialystok 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 Bialystok into the city's central synagogue & set fire to it. Those trying to flee are shot. Upto 10000 Polish Jews were massacred in the first week of war by the Germans, with many more Poles, and Ethnic Germans bombed and killed in almost massacre ways in early days. Plus in marches of civilians by Germans.
Jedwabne Pogrom 380 to 1600 Poland Jewish residents of Jedwabane & its environs are marched into the center of the village, where they are beaten & killed by a number of their fellow townsmen. Some sources suggest German police & /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 & machine-gunned.
Ponaren c.100,000 Lithuania Jewish & Polish citizens of Vilnius marched to Ponary Woods & 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 & 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 & children – are marched to the Ninth Fort & 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 & shot.
Simferopol 10,000 Crimea Mass shooting of Jews. Thereafter, Jews in the region are transported to extermination camps rather than shot.
1942 Lidice Massacre 435 Lidice, Czechoslovakia German SS soldiers annihilated whole village.
1942 South Backa massacre 3,809 Serbia Mass executions of Serb, Jewish & Roma civilians by Hungarian fascist troops.
1942-1944 Warsaw Concentration Camp 200,000 Warsaw, Poland Non-Jewish population of Warsaw systematically shot or gassed in provisional gas chambers.
1943 Changjiao Massacre more than 30,000 Hunan Mass killing of Chinese civilians & mass rape of women.
1943 Pinsk 16,000 Belarus Mass executions of Jews.
1944-1945 Chameria issue c.2,000 Chameria Greek royalist militias kill suspected Pro Communist Muslims. Over 25,000 Muslims flee to Albania.
1944 Backa killings c.20,000-34,500 Serbia Mass executions of Hungarian civilians by Yugoslav communist partisans.
1945 Ústí massacre c.80 Czechoslovakia Czech soldiers lynch ethnic Germans.
1945 Massacre in Trhová Kamenice 14 Czechoslovakia German soldiers tortured innocent villagers to death in the end of war.
1946 Direct Action Day c.4,000 British India Riots perpetrated by the Muslim League against Hindus in Calcutta which spread to other regions & was followed by the Noakhali Massacre. 1947 India c.1,000,000 India After partition of United India & British withdrawal, about 1 million to 4 million Hindus, Sikhs, & Muslims were killed in the aftermath. 1941-1945 Ustashi Genocide ~600,000 Independent kingdom of Croatia (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) Ustašas conduct a wide-scale planned extermination of Serbs, Jews, Roms & political opponents
1994 Rwandan Genocide 937,000 Rwanda Hutus massacre Tutsis.
1995 Srebrenica massacre 8,000 Bosnia & Herzegovina Massacre of male Bosniaks primarily by the Army of Republika Srpska; the largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
2003 Darfur conflict c.400,000 Sudan Ongoing massacre & forced displacement of the Fur people of Western Sudan by government-sponsored Janjaweed militia.
1962 Oran massacre c.2,000 to 3,500 Algeria Arabs lynch European, Jewish & pro-French Algeria Harkis Muslim civilians.
1969 Kilvenmani massacre c.35 Tamil Nadu, India Farm laborers & their families are burnt alive by their higher-caste landlords.
1984 Anti-Sikh Riots c.2,733 to 4,000 Delhi, India Mobs massacre Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards.
1985 Ras Burqa massacre 7 Ras Burqa, Egypt Egyptian policeman machine-gunned 12 Israeli tourists, including 9 children.
1988 Sumgait Pogrom at least 32 (26 Armenians & 6 Azeris) Sumgait, Azerbaijan Azerbaijanis launch a three-day pogrom against Armenians in the city of Sumgait.
2002 Kaluchak Massacre 31 Jammu, India 31 civilians & military personnel killed by Islamic terrorists from Pakistan
2002 Godhra Train Burning 60 Godhra, Gujarat, India Muslim mob burnt alive Hindu men, women, children travelling in S-6 compartment of Sabarmati Express .
2002 Gujarat violence c.800 to 2,000 Gujarat, India Sectarian violence following the Godhra Train Burning.
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 & 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.
1832 Bad Axe River c.Unknown, Wisconsin Illinois militia under the command of General Henry Atkinson attack a Sauk camp at the mouth of Bad Axe River where many Sauk women & children are killed in the fighting. Shortly after, the Winnebago would abandon Black Hawk, forcing him & 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 Irish Catholic prisoners of war who fought for the Mexican Army were executed by the United States Army for desertion & treason.
1857 Cawnpore c.200 Cawnpore, India During the Sepoy Rebellion the British garrison agreed to a safe passage out of Cawnpore by Nana Sahib, but were attacked & killed. The 200 remaining women & children were held in the Bibi-Ghar where they were killed on July 15, 1857.
1863 Lawrence Massacre c.150 Lawrence, Kansas Confederate raiders under William Quantrill loot & burn the town killing over 150 men & boys.
1864 Fort Pillow c.354 Fort Pillow, Tennessee Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest assaulted Fort Pillow, continuing to fire after a white flag was flown by the Union defenders. 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 & 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 & 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 & 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. Reports indicate six-weeks of murder, rape & looting followed the seizure of the city by the Japanese Imperial Army.
1939 Wawer 107 Poland 120 men caught in Lapanka shot as a reprisal for death of 2 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 & common people.
1940 Katyn massacre 25,700 Poland Massacre of Polish intelligentsia, POWs & reserve officers by the Soviets.
1940 Treznea massacre c.93 Treznea, N. Transylvania, Hungary Hungarian army massacred Romanian & Jewish civilians.
1940 Ip massacre c.100 Ip, N. Transylvania, Hungary Hungarian massacre of Romanian civilians in Northern Transylvania.
1941 Fântâna Alba massacre c.200 Soviet Union Soviet massacre of Romanian civilians in Northern Bukovina.
1941 Bombing of Belgrade 17,000 Yugoslavia Germans bomb Belgrade, killing 17,000 people. Belgrade was bombed again in 44, now by the Allies.
June, 1941 Rainiai massacre 79 Soviet Union Soviet soldiers & NKVD tortures to death 78-79 Lithuanian civilians (former public servants, rich people, Boy Scouts, non-communists).
1941 Massacre of Lwów professors 45, Poland Part of AB Action, forty-five university professors executed by an Einsatzkommado unit following 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 & Singaporeans suspected of being hostile.
1942 Bataan Death March 5,650 Philippines American & Philippine POWs are marched to prison camps & killed if they fall behind.
1942 Lidice 340 Lidice, Czechoslovakia After Czech agents, with British assistance, assassinate Nazi Protector of Bohemia-Morovia, & former Deputy Chief of the Gestapo, Reinhard Heydrich the small village Lidice (in Czech lands) is surrounded by the German SS & all men & teenagers over 16 are rounded up & shot. The remaining women & children are sent to concentration camps & the village is destroyed.
1942-45 Sandakan POW/Labour Camp 6,000 North Borneo Indonesian romusha (forced labourers), as well as Australian & British POWs are forced to construct an airfield at Sandakan. All of the Indonesians were dead by 1945. In addition to deprivation & physical abuse, including summary execution, the surviving POWs were forced to march 260 kilometres (160 miles) to another camp. Only six of those sent on these marches survived the war.
1943 Khatyn massacre 100+ Belarus The entire village in Belarus is burnt with all its inhabitants by the German Nazis & their Ukrainian collaborators; one of hundreds Belarusian & 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 & Italian POWs.
1943 Foiba massacre 5,000-10,000 Istria & Dalmatia in Italy Communist troops under Tito's command purge Italian fascists & 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.
Abbey Ardennes c.100+ France Canadian POWs who were captured during battle were marched out to a garden & interrogated before being shot by members of 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 & 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, & 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. exact number of victims unknown.
1944 San Polo di Arezzo Massacre 48 Italy After attacking Italian partisans & 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 & tortured them, & took them to a nearby field. They were made to dig three pit graves & were then thrown in still alive. The partisans were placed in the pits with their heads above ground & 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, German troops systematically slaughter most civilians in the borough of Wola during early stage of Warsaw Uprising.