A List of massacres
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list is continued from this page 1944 Putten
Atrocity 39 Netherlands General Heinz Helmuth von Wuhlisch orders the execution
of 39 Dutch civilians & 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 & out of 589 only
49 survive the end of the war.
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
Malmedy massacre 72-84 Belgium Executions of surrendered American POWs during
the Battle of the Bulge.
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 Bleiburg massacre
55,000-300,000 Yugoslavia Partisans retaliate against Ustashe, Domobrans, &
many Croat civilians.
1945 SS Cap Arcona sinking <1,000 Germany British
RAF fighter planes pilots then Nazis kill survivors struggling to make it ashore
following the sinking of the ships SS Cap Arcona, Deutschland, & Thielbek,
which were carrying POWs from the Neuengamme concentration camp.
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 & 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 killed by the Zionist
Irgun & Lehi.
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 & 81, mostly women &
children.
1971 1971 East Pakistan Intellectuals massacre c.100 East Pakistan
Pakistan Army & local collaborators kill large number of doctors, engineers,
educators, journalists, & 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 & Armenians, as well as some Lebanese
& 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.
1981 Fakehane massacre 750 Beirut,Lebanon Israeli warplanes raided
a crowded residential area in Beirut killing hundreds.
1982 Sabra & 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 & wounding 41 others. The refugees were hit by a third raid
while they were evacuating casualties. Resulting in 34 more being killed.
1991
Vukovar massacre 250 Vukovar, Croatia Yugoslav army & Serb paramilitaries
massacre POWs & wounded civilians.
1991 Škabrnja massacre 86 Škabrnja,
Croatia Serb paramilitaries kill civilians & POWs.
1991 Vocin massacre
60 Vocin, Croatia "White Eagles" Serb paramilitary group massacres civilians.
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 Sukhumi Massacre
1,200 Abkhazia, Georgia After storming of Sukhumi, Abkhaz Separatists & their
allies committed massacre against the remaining Georgian population of the city.
1994 First Markale massacre 68 Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnian
Serb army shells crowded civilian marketplace in downtown Sarajevo.
1995 Second
Markale massacre 37 Sarajevo, Bosnia & 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 & /or suffocated to
death in metal truck containers while being transferred between prisons by Northern
Alliance soldiers during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan 2001 Nepalese royal
family massacre 8 Katmandu, Nepal Prince Dipendra shoots immediate family &
himself at a royal dinner.
State-sponsored or state-condoned massacres during
peacetime
1570 Massacre of Novgorod 10,000-100,000 Novgorod, Russia 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 Tsarist
soldiers fire on unarmed demonstrators in front of the Winter Palace.
August
16, 1819 Peterloo massacre 11 Manchester, England 14 if including state offixcers
also killed by the state in 1831 at least 10s of British isle people were killed
by the state in the Brostol riots and Merthyr Rising,
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
& the Russian royal household.
1919 March 1st Movement 7,509 Korea Japanese
troops & police opened fire on Korean protesters marching peacefully on the
street calling for the independence of Korea & 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 39-300 Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA White
mobs invaded & burned the segregated black Greenwood district, 1,256 homes.
The governor declared martial law, black citizens were rounded up by the National
Guard & put into the internment camps.
1930 Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre
c.200 Peshawar British troops fire on hundreds of non-violent protesters in Peshawar.
1932 Bonus March 4-5 Washington, D.C. Federal cavalry troops with rifles &
tear gas evict WWI veterans & families in protest camps around Washington.
Hundreds of veterans were injured, several were killed. 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 September
massacares >28 killed, 30 injured, 300 raped Istanbul, Turkey Killing of members
of Greek community by Turkish civilians during riots against Christianity. 1954-1962
Algerian massacre >500,000 Algeria Killing of Algerian civilians by French
Army & FLN during Algerian War of Independence.
1959 Suppression of Lhasa
Uprising 87,000 Tibet The Chinese PLA massacres thousands of Tibetans in the Lhasa
region during the rebellion against Chinese rule.
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 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" Dominican Republic Dominican military destroy the
town of Palma Sola, the base of the (mostly Afro-Dominican) political & religious
dissident movement known as the Liboristas 1965-1966 September 30th massacre &
aftermath 500,000-1 million Indonesia Suharto massacres communists & 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 killed, 9 wounded Kent
State University, Ohio, USA 29 members of Ohio National Guard open fire on unarmed
students protesting expansion of Vietnam War into Cambodia on Kent State University
college campus, killing 4 & wounding 9, one of whom is permanently paralyzed.
1971 Massacre of Bangladesh c.250,000 Bangladesh Starting with Operation Searchlight
in March, the 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 & killed dissident citizens, journalists, &
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 & civilians of Gwangju.
1981 El Mozote massacre c.900 El Salvador Government troops torture &
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 massacre Tamil civilians.
1983, 1989 The Gukurahundi
c.25,000 Zimbabwe Genocide, & 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 Iranian
political prisoners 5,000 + Iran Political prisoners were gathered in special
prison quarters. They were retried according to orders from Ayatollah Khomeini
by three member judging committees. Between 5000-30000 murdered & buried in
secret places.
1989 April 9 tragedy c.20 Soviet Union Soviet military troops
attacked Georgian demonstrators in Tbilisi, Georgia
1989 Tiananmen massacre
up to 2,600 Beijing, China Chinese PLA troops open fire on students & civilians
gathered in Beijing.
1990 Black January 133 Soviet Union Soviet military troops
attacked Azeri protest demonstrations, passer-bys & 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 Ovcara massacre 260 Vukovar, Croatia
Serbian forces killed 260 wounded civilians, soldiers & Vukovar hospital personnel
after the downfall of the city.
1993 Candelaria Church Massacre 8 Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil Police retaliate against street children at orphanage, leading to worldwide
criticism.
1994 13 de Marzo 41 Cuba refugees drown after confrontation with
Cuban Navy.
1995 Aguas Blancas massacre 17 Aguas Blancas, Mexico Motorized
Police kill protesters who demand some rights & 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
East Timorese civilians at Liquica Roman Catholic Church. Using machetes &
automatic rifles, over 200 are killed.
2002 Itaba massacre 173 to 267 Itaba,
Burundi The Burundian Army massacres between 173 & 267 Hutu villagers in reprisal
for rebel attacks.
2005 Andijan massacre 200 - 1000 Andijan,Uzbekistan Uzbek
Interior Ministry troops fire into a crowd of protesters on May 2005.Politically
motivated non-governmental massacres 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 Hebron massacre
67 Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine Arabs kill 67 Jews in
Hebron.
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, Japanese terrorists open fire at civilians in the Airport near Lod, Israel.
26 are killed & 78 more injured.
1972 Bloody Friday 9 Belfast, Northern
Ireland Explosion of 22 bombs in 90 minutes by Provisional Irish Republican Army
in & around central Belfast in an attempt to bring normal life in the City
to an end. The bombings killed seven civilians, two British soldiers & seriously
injured 130 other people.
1972 Munich massacre 12 Munich, Germany Palestinian
terrorists kidnap & kill Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
1972 Claudy
Bombing 9 Claudy, Northern Ireland Detonation of three car bombs in Claudy village.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army & a local Catholic priest were implicated
in the attack. 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 & Monaghan bombings 33 Dublin & 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.
1976 6 October Massacre 46 Bangkok, Thailand University
Students from Bangkok demonstrated against return to Thailand of ousted PM, Thanom
Kittikachorn.
1977 Atocha Massacre 5 Madrid, Spain Far-right activists kill
5 left-wing lawyers during the Spanish transition to democracy.
1978 La Mon
restaurant bombing 12 Outside Belfast, Northern Ireland Provisional Irish Republican
Army firebomb attack at a Belfast hotel.
1979 Greensboro massacre 5 Greensboro,
North Carolina Ku Klux Klansmen & American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan
demonstration.
1979 Warrenpoint Ambush 18 Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland Provisional
Irish Republican Army attack on a British Army convoy.
1986 Plaza de la Republica
Dominicana massacre 12 Madrid, Spain Iñaki de Juana Chaos, a ETA terrorist,
set up a car bomb in the Dominican Republic Square, killing 12 people & injuring
45. 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 & killed (16 wounded) by right wing extremist Barend
Strydom.
1993 Shankill Road bombing 9 Belfast, Northern Ireland The Provisional
IRA kills eight civilians & one of its own by exploding a bomb in a fish shop
on the Shankill Road. The bombing sparks a series of reprisals by Loyalist paramilitaries.
1993 Greysteel massacre 8 Greysteel, Northern Ireland Ulster Freedom Fighters
revenge attack for the Shankill Road bombing.
1994 Second Hebron massacre
29, West Bank Israeli extremist Baruch Goldstein opens fire on group of Palestinian
Muslims praying at 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 Oklahoma City bombing 168 Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma Anti-government extremists Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols
destroy the 9-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building with a truck bomb, killing
168 & injuring 800. 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 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 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;
another plane was downed in a Pennsylvania field by its hijackers when passengers
rushed the cockpit.
2002 Bojaya massacre 119 Bojayá, Colombia FARC
guerrillas launch an explosive into a church sheltering civilians, killing 119
& wounding 98.
2002 Passover massacre 30 Netanya, Israel Arab suicide
bomber kills civilians. 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 plant
several bombs aboard four commuter trains in Madrid.
2004 Beslan school massacre
344 Beslan, (Russia) 2005 Bali Bombings 23, Indonesia Bombs exploded at two sites
in Jimbaran & Kuta, both in south Bali. Twenty-three people were killed, including
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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.
Labor conflicts 1854 Eureka Stockade
28 Ballarat, Victoria Uprising by miners against repression, & taxes put down
by soldiers.
1885 Rock Springs Massacre 28 Rock Springs, Wyoming Racially
& economically motivated attack by white coal miners on Chinese miners.
1886
Haymarket Riot 12 Chicago, Illinois Bomb tossed amongst police & striking
workers
1892 Homestead lockout/strike 35 Homestead, Pennsylvania Pinkerton
guards against striking US Steel laborers in the US bloodiest labor conflict.
1897 Lattimer massacre 19 Hazleton, Pennsylvania Luzerne County Sheriff's
posse fires on strikers at the request of mining companies
1914 Ludlow massacre
20 Ludlow, Colorado Suppression of a strike by twelve thousand Colorado coal miners.
1928 Massacre of the Bananeras 300-1000 Ciénaga, 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
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