The first wave of massacres Killing in the town began Process_start on 11 or 12 May 1941 , when a band of Ustaše led by Mirko Puk murdered Killing a group of Serb men and boys in a Serbian Orthodox church before setting Placing it on fire Damaging .

The Glina massacres Killing were killings Killing of Serb peasants in the town of Glina in the Independent State of Croatia ( NDH ) that occurred between May and August 1941 , during World War II .

An estimated 2,000–2,400 people were killed Killing in the Glina massacres Killing .

In response Response a group of Irish conspirators launched Process_start the Irish Rebellion of 1641 , which quickly degenerated Change into a series of massacres Killing of English and Scottish Protestant settlers in Ireland .

Finally , during and after the final stages of the war , Yugoslav authorities and Partisan troops carried out reprisals , including the deportation of the Danube Swabian population , forced Causation marches and executions of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians ( predominantly Croats associated Collaboration with the NDH , but also Slovenes and others ) fleeing Escaping their advance ( the Bleiburg repatriations ) , atrocities against the Italian population in Istria ( the Foibe massacres ) and purges against Serbs , Hungarians and Germans associated Collaboration with the fascist forces .

Grant Duff includes Cause_to_be_included an interview Social_event of a survivor of these massacres Killing in his `` History of the Marathas '' and generally corroborates this number .

It incurred Causation the destruction Destroying of virtually all of Korea 's major cities , thousands of massacres by both sides ( including the mass killing Killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by the South Korean government ) , and the torture Bodily_harm and starvation Killing of prisoners of war Hostile_encounter by the North Korean command Control .

They were characterized Justifying by unprecedented ferocity , wholesale destruction Destroying , mass deportations , and immense loss Earnings_and_losses of life due to combat , starvation , exposure , disease , and massacres .

A higher percentage of Moros were killed Killing than in other incidents now considered massacres Killing .

Based on research Research by modern historians , out of the at least 4 million Hui in Shaanxi before the revolt Change_of_leadership , only 20,000 remained in the province while the rest of the Hui were all killed Killing in massacres Killing and reprisals Revenge by government and militia forces Hostile_encounter or deported Removing out of the province .

Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in South Korea 18 years earlier , Mỹ Lai was one of the largest publicized massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century .

According to professor Firuz Kazemzadeh , `` it is impossible to pin the blame for the massacres Killing on either side .

The Armenian–Tatar massacres ( also known as the Armenian-Tartar war , the Armeno-Tartar war and , more recently , the Azeri-Armenian war ) refers Adducing to the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between Armenians and Azerbaijanis ( at the time commonly referred Adducing to as `` Caucasian Tatars '' or `` Tatars of the Caucasus '' ) throughout the Russian Caucasus in 1905–1907 .

the massacres started Process_start during the russian revolution of 1905 , and claimed Statement hundreds of lives .

The Noakhali riots were a series of semiorganized massacres Killing , rapes , abductions and forced conversions of Hindus to Islam and looting Robbery and arson of Hindu properties perpetrated Committing_crime by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal ( now in Bangladesh ) in October–November 1946 , a year before India 's independence from British rule .

After hostilities broke out Process_start , Palestinian groups fired rockets in response Response to what they characterized as `` massacres '' .

Large-scale massacres were perpetrated Committing_crime by members of both ethnic factions .

Despite this , fighting and massacres continued in the countryside .

`` [ L ] ong-dormant '' land disputes between `` Hema herders and Lendu farmers '' were re-ignited in December 2017 resulting in a surge of massacres with entire Hema villages razed Destroying and over a hundred casualties Catastrophe .

While the massacres by Lendu militia ceased Process_end in mid-March 2018 , `` crop destruction , kidnappings , and killings '' continued .

These massacres Killing were often carried out Action upon the initiatives of local politicians and Kurdish tribes .

Stirred largely due Causation to the inaction of the European powers in regard to Hamidian massacres , a series of mass-pogroms and massacres Killing of Armenians instigated by the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II in reaction to a series of rebellions by Armenians against the state Statement .

The Ottoman reaction to the takeover saw Self_motion further massacres Killing and pogroms of 6,000 Armenians living in Constantinople and also Hamid threatening to level the entire building Building itself .

Nevertheless , aside from issuing Creating a note condemning Judgment_communication the pogroms in the city , the European powers did not act on their promises to enforce Action reforms Reforming_a_system in the country as future massacres Killing of Armenians continued to take place Process_start .

Stirred largely due Causation to the inaction of the European powers in regard to Hamidian massacres , a series of mass-pogroms and massacres Killing of Armenians instigated by the Sultan Abdul-Hamid II in reaction to a series of rebellions by Armenians against the state Statement .

The capital Dhaka was the scene of numerous massacres Killing , including Operation Searchlight and the Dhaka University massacre .

For twenty-four years the Indonesian government subjected the people of East Timor to routine and systematic torture , sexual slavery , extrajudicial executions , massacres , and deliberate starvation .

The GIA not only fought Hostile_encounter the AIS but began Process_start a series of massacres Killing targeting Aiming entire neighborhoods or villages—some evidence also suggests Convincing the involvement Participation of government forces—which peaked in 1997 .

The Gukurahundi was a series of massacres Killing of Ndebele civilians carried out Action by the Zimbabwe National Army from early 1983 to late 1987 .

The IAGS has classified Check the massacres as a genocide .

The conflict Hostile_encounter was characterized by summary executions , massacres , purges , kidnapping and other war crimes and crimes against humanity .

The LRA is accused Judgment_communication by the International Criminal Court of widespread Dispersal human rights violations , including mutilation , torture , slavery , rape , the abduction of civilians , the use Using of child soldiers , and a number of massacres .

It was one of the largest prisoner of war Hostile_encounter massacres Killing of the war Hostile_encounter , along with the Katyn massacre , and it was one of many atrocities Violence committed Commitment by the 1st Mountain Division ( ) .

The offensive Military_operation , and in particular the degree of Turkish involvement Participation in it , has been widely attributed Judgment_communication with the deportation Removing of the native ethnic Armenians of the town of Kessab , who make up 70 % of its population , and has been compared Check with the past Turkish killings Killing of Armenians during the Hamidian massacres Killing and Armenian Genocide .

It has been described Statement as one of the most horrific frontier massacres of the war .

Belgian resistance and German fear Change_sentiment of francs-tireurs , led Bringing the Germans to implement Action a policy of terror Terrorism ( ) against Belgian civilians soon after the invasion Military_operation , in which massacres Killing , executions Rewards_and_punishments , hostage Kidnapping taking and the burning Bodily_harm of towns and villages took place Process_start and became Becoming known as the Rape of Belgium .

This pivotal historical event involved Cause_to_be_included a complete breakdown of state control Control resulting in Causation series of riots and massacres Killing in which Catholic mobs killed Killing between 5,000 and 30,000 Protestants over a period of weeks throughout the entire kingdom .

The Markale market shelling Attack or Markale massacres were two separate bombardments carried out Action by the Army of Republika Srpska targeting Aiming civilians during the Siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War .

Pakistan defied Agree_or_refuse_to_act the UN 's ban on supply of arms and airlifted Supply missiles to the Bosnian Muslims , while after the Srebrenica and Markale massacres , NATO intervened Hindering in 1995 with Operation Deliberate Force targeting Aiming the positions of the Army of the Republika Srpska , which proved key in ending Process_end the war .