Massacre

A Massacre is a killing of multiple defenseless individuals.

• Example(s):
  • NKVD prisoner massacres.
  • Kent State massacre (1970-05-04).
  • Tiananmen Square massacre (1989-06-04).
  • Bor massacre.
  • Sinjar Massacre.
  • …
• See: Extrajudicial Killing, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes of War, War Crime, Pogrom, Mass Killing, Mass Murder.

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References

2022

• (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/massacre Retrieved:2022-1-5.
  • A massacre is the killing of multiple individuals and is usually considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims. The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage". There is no objective definition of what constitutes a "massacre". Various international organisations have proposed a formal definition of the term crimes against humanity, which would however include incidents of persecution or abuse that do not result in deaths. Conversely, a "massacre" is not necessarily a "crime against humanity". Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial killing.

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