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Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass murder, especially of noncombatant 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 labelled 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 musn't be seen as definitive nor authoritative. Please see relevant articles for further information.

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Massacres in which 10,000 or more civilians were intentionally killed are listed in bold.

Ancient and Middle Ages

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Date Name Deaths Location Comments
334 BC Destruction of Thebes ~6,000-8,000 Greece Alexander the Great slaughters the population of the city when it revolts. Between 334-324 BC, Alexander will massacre at least a quarter million city dwellers at Sindimana, Gaza, and other locations.
260 BC Battle of Changping 400,000 now Jincheng,Shanxi Army of State of Qin defeated State of Zhao and killed about 400,000 Zhao warriors. This battle was a decisive victory for the unification by Qin.
150 BC Lusitanian Massacres ~8,000 now Spain Roman troops under Galba massacre Lusitani citizens after convincing them to surrender.
71 BC The Spartacus Slave Revolt ~6,000 Roman Republic Surrendering slaves are crucified along the Via Appia.
1 Massacre of the Innocents ? Bethlehem A biblical event in which Herod the Great orders the execution of all young male children in the city. The historicity of this massacre is uncertain.
532 Nika riots ~30,000 Byzantine Empire After a sports rivalry turns to full-scale revolution, Emperor Justinian I locks the rioters in the Hippodrome and has them killed.
Iraq Masacres 10,000 Iraq Arabs conquer Iraq, and kill 10,000 Iraqi Christian, All other convert, pay high taxes, or flee to the mountins of Iraq.
782 Verden's bloody trial 4,500 Verden Killing of non-Christian Saxons by Charlemagne, though the actual scale of the massacre is open to question.
November 13, 1002 St. Brice's Day massacre ~Unknown England Danes ordered slaughtered by Ethelred II of England, unclear how many actually were.
1096 German Crusade, 1096 ~10,000 Along the Rhine River "People's Crusade" prior to the First Crusade killed thousands of Jews along the Rhine; see also Emicho
1098 First Crusade ~20,000 Antioch Almost all Muslim inhabitants slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders. 12,000 Christians are killed two centuries later when the city is retaken by Muslims.
1099 First Crusade ~70,000 Jerusalem Almost all Muslim and Jewish inhabitants slaughtered after the fall of the city to the Crusaders.
March 16, 1190 Clifford's Tower ~150 York, England Mob attacks Jewish residents; many commit suicide.
August 20, 1191 Siege of Acre 2750 Akko Richard the Lionheart slaughters Muslim prisoners taken during the siege.
July 25, 1209 Albigensian Crusade 20,000-100,000 Beziers, France Crusaders slaughter the Cathars, other civilian slaughters occur in Tolouse and St. Nazair.
June 1220 Samarkand Massacre ~75,000 Samarkand, Khwarezm (present day Iran and Iraq) The Mongols under Genghis Khan laid siege to the capital city of Khwarezm and, after the Turkish garrison surrendered the city, drove out the remaining population slaughtering over 75,000 men, women, and children.
June 1221 Herat massacre 600,000 Herat Genghis Khan destroys the city and massacres the population.
May 12 1268 Siege of Antioch 40,000 AntiochSyria Baibars destroys the city and massacres the population.
1282 Sicilian Vespers thousands Italy French citizens of Sicily killed as part of a revolt.
1289 Siege of Tripoli ~10,000 Palestine Muslim conquest of crusader state. Whole population killed.
May 18 1291 Siege of Tyre 10,000 Tyre Palestine Baybars destroys the city and massacres the population.
1358 Jacquerie Revolts 8,000 Meaux, France Peasants massacred after revolt put down.
1348 Black Death Scapegoats 6,000-16,000 Germany Jews blamed for the Black Death, up to 12,000 killed in Mainz, 4,000 in Strasbourg.
1398 Massacre of Delhi 100,000 Delhi Timur Lenk massacres prisoners, total deaths from his conquests will exceed 20 million.
October 25, 1415 Agincourt ~5,000 Agincourt, France Henry V, in order to raise enough soldiers guarding the French Nobles, orders the deaths of 5,000 prisoners of war during the Battle of Agincourt after receiving reports of French forces breaking though the English rear defenses and attacking its supply lines.
1480 Sack of Otranto 12,000 Otranto,Italy sack of Otranto by the Turks, in which 12,000 men are said to have perished

Modern

State-sponsored genocide

Date Name Deaths Location Comments
1822 Chios Massacre ~42,000 Ottoman Empire (Chios and Psara islands, now in Greece) Punitive expedition against the Greek Christian civilian population after a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 Salsipuedes Genocide 40–300 Uruguay President Frutuoso Rivera slaughters Charrua chiefs. Eventually Charruas will be exterminated.
1876 Sv.Nedelya Church Massacre ~5,000 Ottoman Empire (Batak, now in Bulgaria) Bulgarian man, women and children baricaded in the church massacred after five days defence by the irregular Ottoman troops (bashi-bazouks). Punitive action for the April Uprising. More than 7,000 others throughout Bulgaria.
1904 Herero Genocide about 65,000 German South West Africa by German General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha
1905–1917 Armenian Genocide est. 400,000 to 1.5 million Ottoman Empire Forced evacuation and mass murder of 400,000-1.5 million Armenians of Anatolia, during the government of the Young Turks.
1915-1918 Assyrian Genocide est. 275,000 Ottoman Empire Assyrians of northern Mesopotamia was forcibly relocated and massacred by Ottoman and Kurdish forces.
1916-1919 Pontian Greek Genocide est. 353,000 Ottoman Empire Hundrends of thousands of Pontian Greeks perished while doing forced labour in the Ottoman Labour Battalions.
1937-1938 Great Purge 680,000-1.3 million Soviet Union Stalinist purges aimed at perceived dissidents, over 1.3 million will eventually be killed.
1941–1945 The Holocaust est. 9 to 11 million Europe Systematic destruction of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, including the mass deportation of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and homosexuals to Concentration Camps. Some individual incidents of massacres are noted in this table, but camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka accounted for the bulk of the slaughter.
1931–1945 Japanese biological warfare program 3,000 to 200,000 Chinese, Korean, Allied civilians and POWs East Asia Official program of medical human experimentation that resulted in thousands of deaths during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, such as Unit 731.
June 28, 1941 Białystok 2,200 Poland In one of the first massacres of Jews, the German reserve Police Battalion 309 gathered the Jews of Białystok into the central synagogue and set it on fire, shooting people who tried to flee.
July 10, 1941 Massacre in Jedwabne 380–1600 Poland Jewish residents of Jedwabane are marched into the center of the village, where they are beaten and killed by their Polish neighbours, although some historians argue that German police, the SS and military forces were also involved.
September 29–30, 1941 Babi Yar massacre 33,771 Ukraine The Jewish population of Kiev was systematically marched out in small groups to a ditch at Babi Yar and machine-gunned.
July 1941–August 1944 Ponaren ~100,000 Lithuania Jews and Poles of Vilnius marched to Ponary Woods and shot by Lithuanian police units (known as Ponary Rifles) under German supervision. 40,000 were killed in 1941 alone.
October 12 and October 13 1941 Dnepropetrovsk 12,000 Ukraine Einsatzkommando 6 massacres most of the remaining Jews of the town, marching them to a ravine where they were killed.
October 22 and October 23 1941 Odessa massacre 36,000 Ukraine Mass shootings of the Jews of Odessa.
October 28 1941 Ninth Fort 9,000 Lithuania Jews of Kaunas who were not able to work, including women and children, were marched to the Ninth Fort and shot. Over 40,000 Jews will eventually be killed there.
November 30–December 8 1941 Rumbula 25,000 Latvia Jews of Riga are transported to the forest and shot.
December 30 1941 Simferopol 10,000 Crimea Mass killings of Jews, after this massacre, many Jews are transported to death camps and gassed, rather than being shot on site.
1942–1944 Warsaw Concentration Camp 200,000 Warsaw, Poland Gentile population of Warsaw systematically shot or gassed in provisional gas chambers.
October 29 1942 Pinsk 16,000 Belarus Mass executions of Jews
April–July 1994 Rwandan massacre 937,000 Rwanda Hutus massacre Tutsis for 3 months.
July 11, 1995 Srebrenica massacre ~8000 Bosnia and Herzegovina The largest massacre in Europe since World War II.
2003–Present Darfur Genocide ~400,000 Sudan Currently ongoing massacre and forced displacement of the Fur people of Western Sudan by government-sponsored janjaweed militia.

Pogroms and religious massacres

To be in this section, the primary motive for the massacre must have been ethnic or religious hatred.

Date Name Deaths Location Comments
September 12, 1571 Enryakuji set fire ~3,000 Enryakuji , Japan
August 24, 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre 70,000 France A wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots.
March 22, 1622 Jamestown ~347 Jamestown, Virginia [United States] Led by Opechancanough, brother of Powhatan, local Native American tribes attack the Virginia Colony destroying virtualy all the settlements save the heavily fortified Jamestown.
October 23 onwards, 1641 Ulster 1641 4,000 Ulster, Ireland English Protestant Planters killed by dispossed Irish Catholics.
1648-1649 Khmelnytsky Uprising tens of thousands Poland Jews, Polish nobles, and Uniates killed by a Cossack and peasant uprising under Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
September 22, 1711 Tuscarora ~Unknown North Carolina [US] The Tuscarora tribe killed an unknown number of settlers along the Chowan and Roanoke Rivers in northeastern North Carolina as well as abandoning the settlement of New Bern beginning the Tuscarora War lasting from 1711-1713.
April 1715 Yamassee ~Unknown South Carolina [US] With Spanish support the Yamassee kill several hundred South Carolina settlers. This act would begin a violent conflict between South Carolina colonists, allied with the Cherokee, defeating the Yamassee northwest of Port Royal, South Carolina almost a year later in January 1716.
1763 Distribution of blankets exposed to smallpox to American Indians unknown Fort Pitt During Pontiac's Rebellion, in which many white noncombatants (perhaps hundreds) were killed by Native American warriors, British General Jeffrey Amherst wrote a letter suggesting this tactic to stop the assault, but it is uncertain anyone died as a result.
1768 Koliwszczyzna ? Massacre of Poles and Jews in Human, Ukraine.
February 16, 1838 Weenen massacre ~300 South Africa Zulus massacre Voortrekker men, women, and children.
1838 Myall Creek massacre 28 Australia Aboriginal people were murdered by white stockmen taking revenge for lost cattle.
1838 Haun's Mill Massacre 17 Missouri Seventeen Mormon men and boys killed by 200-250 militia.
November 29, 1847 Whitman massacre ? near Walla Walla, Washington Medical mission established by Marcus Whitman attacked by the Cayuse.
1848 Rabacja ? Galicia Massacre of Polish nobles by peasants.
April 23, 1852 Bridge Gulch massacre ~150-300 California, near Hayfork, Trinity Co. Posse from Weaverville kill Wintu people in an undefended Native American village.
October 26, 1853 Gunnison massacre ? Utah territory Exploration party of John Gunnison killed by Pahvant Utes.
September 11, 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre 120 Utah, United States Mormon militia kill an entire wagon train of Arkansas farming families; 120 persons men, women, and children.
November 29, 1864 Sand Creek massacre ~150 Colorado Territory United States cavalry troops kill Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples in an undefended Native American village.
June 1, 1873 Cypress Hills massacre 16–23 Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada 16-22 Nakoda (Assiniboine) killed by American wolfers. 1 American was killed.
1890 Beothuk Indian massacres ? to extinction Newfoundland, now Canada
1903 Kishinev pogrom 45 (Chişinău) - Moldova
January 1923 Rosewood, Florida ~17 Rosewood, Florida, United States Black people were killed by white mobs. Their village was also burnt down.
September 1–8, 1923 Kanto massacre ~2,711–6,415 Kanto region, Japan Korean and Okinawan immigrants blamed for looting and arson.
1929 First Hebron massacre ~67 Palestine Arab mob massacred and "pogromed" at least 67 Jews and wiped out the old Jewish settlement in Hebron.
January 1932 La Matanza ~30,000 El Salvador Massacre of mostly indigenous people, committed by the military government after having crushed a peasants' rebellion.
1938 Kristallnacht 36–200 Germany also called Pogromnacht
September 1939 Bromberg Bloody Sunday up to 8000 Bydgoszcz, Poland Killing of between 358 and 5,000 ethnic Germans during the Polish Defence War of 1939 and subsequent massacre of ~3,000 Polish civilians as a reprisal.
June 271944 - March 1945 Chamerian massacre ~2000 Greece During German occupation, Greek royalist militias battle pro Communist Muslims in northern villages of Epirus, known by Albanians as Chameria. Over 25,000 flee to Albania.
July 31, 1945 Usti massacre ~80 Czechoslovakia Czech soldiers lynch ethnic Germans.
July 5, 1962 Oran massacre ~2000–3500 Algeria Muslims lynch European and Jew civilians.
1969 Killevanamani Massacre ~35 Tamil Nadu, India more than 35 farm labor and their families, mostly women and children, were burnt alive by upper caste landlords.
November 1-3, 1984 Sikh Massacre; also known as Anti-Sikh riots and Black November ~2733–4000 Delhi, India Three days of Sectarian violence following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Local government officials widely believed to be responsible for organizing mobs to massacre Sikhs.
December 28, 2000 Titanic Express massacre 21 Mageyo, Burundi Burundian Hutu-extremists, believed to be members of Palipehutu-FNL, ambush a civilian bus close to the Burundian capital Bujumbura. Hutu passengers are released unharmed. Tutsis and foreigners are shot dead.
January 9–11, 2001 Yakaolang massacre ~300 Yakaolang, Afghanistan Taliban executes civilian members of the Shia Sadat and Hazara clans.
February 2002 2002 Gujarat violence ~800–2000 Gujarat state, India Sectarian violence following a train fire in Godhra.
September 9, 2002 Itaba massacre 173-267 Itaba, Burundi The Burundian army massacres between 173 and 267 Hutu villagers, allegedly in reprisal for rebel attacks.
May 2, 2004 Yelwa massacre ~630 Nigeria Muslim nomads killed by Christians in ongoing violence in Nigeria.
August 13, 2004 Gatumba massacre 152 Burundi Members of the Hutu-extremist group Palipehutu-FNL attack a refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting, hacking and burning to death 152 Congolese Tutsis.
July 12, 2005 Turbi village massacre Kenya ~73 Turbi, (Kenya) Hundreds of armed men said to be from the Borana clan, surrounded Turbi primary school and nearby houses and opened fire as children were making their way to school. Turbi is a Gabra clan village.
June 16, 2005 Muhuta Church massacre 6 Rural Bujumbura, Burundi

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 Comments
[1296], Massacre of Berwick 30,000 Berwick, Scotland (now in England) After the invasion of Scotland by English forces under the command of Edward I of England, around 30,000 people died in the massacre by his forces of the then Scottish town]].[1296.htm]
November 8, 1520 Stockholm Bloodbath ~100 Stockholm, Sweden After the invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under the command of Christian II of Denmark, around 100 people (mostly nobility and clergy) were decapitated.
September 20, 1565 Fort Caroline ~Unknown Fort Caroline, Florida [US] Spanish forces under naval officer Pedro Menendez de Aviles attack and destroy Fort Caroline killing most of the settlers. Renaming the settlement San Mateo the Spanish would use the fort as one of many bases in which Menendez would search for a water passage through Florida.
May 10, 1631 Sack of Magdeburg 20,000 Magdeburg
1644 [] Fall of Aberdeen 118 Scotland Unarmed civilians were killed by the Royalist army.
1644 [] Fall of Bolton 1500 England Unarmed civilians, and soldiers were killed by the Royalist army. [link]
September 11 1649 Fall of Drogheda <1000 Ireland Unarmed civilians were killed by the New Model Army commanded by Oliver Cromwell.[link]
July 3, 1778 Wyoming Valley massacre ~Unknown Pennsylvania Occurred during the American Revolutionary War; labeled a massacre but most deaths were in battle.
11 November 1778 Cherry Valley massacre 33 eastern New York During the American Revolutionary War, Iroquois warriors raid a village, killing and scalping civilians, including women and children.
May 29, 1780 Waxhaw massacre ~113 plus 100+ mortally wounded Buford, South Carolina - the Waxhaws British Col. Banastre Tarleton is alleged to have killed some Americans as they attempted surrender; many of the deaths were in battle.
March 8, 1782 Gnadenhutten massacre 96 Gnadenhutten, Ohio During the American Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania militia execute Christian Lenape non-combatants, mostly women and children.
29th May, 1798 Gibbet Rath massacre 350 Kildare, Ireland British troops massacre surrendering rebels during rebellion of 1798.
April 6-9, 1812 Badajoz ~Unknown Badajoz, Spain After a four week siege British soldiers under the Duke of Wellington seized the Spanish city of Badajoz, a fortress on the Spanish-Portuguese border, from French control. After the battle however British soldiers began looting the city for three days before Wellington could regain control. This was one of the most serious breakdowns of control over British military forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
August 15, 1812 Fort Dearborn massacre ~46 Fort Dearborn (present day Chicago), Illinois Receiving a guarantee of safe passage from British and American Indian allies to evacuate Fort Dearborn, under orders from American General William Hull, the US troop column of 54 soldiers, 12 milita, 9 women, and 18 children, while escorted by Indian guides, joined in an attack by larger Indian force while on route to Detriot with over half of the column killed and the remainder captured several of which were ransomed to Detroit.
January, 1813 River Raisin massacre 30–60 Monroe, Michigan Prisoners scalped during the War of 1812.
August 2, 1832 Bad Axe River ~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.
September 12 1847 San Patricios 50 Chapultepec, Mexico United States Army executes Irish prisoners of war who defended Mexico.
June 27-July 15, 1857 Cawnpore ~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.
August 21, 1863 Lawrence Massacre ~150 Lawrence, Kansas Confederate raiders under William Quantrill loot and burn the town killing over 150 men and boys.
April 12, 1864 Fort Pillow ~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.
March 10, 1873 Canby Massacre ~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.
December 29, 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).
February 19-21, 1937 Addis Ababa 3,000 Ethiopia by Italian soldiers
13 December 1937 - February 1938 Nanjing Massacre (Rape of Nanking) 200,000-300,000 China After the Chinese Nationalist army fled Nanking, the Japanese entered the city virtually resistance free. According the various sources, 200,000-300,000 Chinese civilians were killed, with the most common figure being 300,000, although historical revisionists deny it to have ever happened, or cite hugely deflated figures. The time period of the massacre is not clearly defined, though the period of unruly carnage lasted well into 6 weeks after, until early February 1938.
April 27, 1937 Bombing of Guernica est. 1,650 Spain Bombers of the Condor Legion attack the Basque city of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, killing 1,650 men, women and children.
December 27, 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.
December 1939 - July 1940 Palmiry massacre ~2000 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.
9 September, 1940 Treznea massacre ~93 Treznea, N. Transylvania, Hungary Hungarian army massacred Romanian and Jewish civilians.
14 September, 1940 Ip massacre ~100 Ip, N. Transylvania, Hungary Hungarian massacre of Romanian civilians in Northern Transylvania.
November 14, 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.
April 1, 1941 Fantana Alba massacre ~200 Soviet Union Soviet massacre of Romanian civilians in Northern Bukovina.
April, 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.
April 15, 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).
July 3-4, 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.
October 20 and October 21 1941 Kragujevac 4,000 Serbia Reprisal killings by German forces after the death of 10 soldiers at the hands of partisans.
February - March 1942 Sook Ching massacre ~50,000-100,000 (Singapore only) Malaya & Singapore Japanese troops execute ethnic Chinese Malayans and Singaporeans suspected of being hostile.
22 March, 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.
April 1942 Bataan Death March 5,650 Philippines American and Philippine POWs are marched to prison camps and killed if they fall behind.
February 1943 Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ~100,000 Ukraine By Ukrainian nationalists
June 10, 1942 Lidice 172 this day 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.
July, 1943 Canicatti slaughter 12 Sicily US Troops kill unarmed civilians at a soap factory.
July 14, 1943 Biscari massacre 76 Sicily US Troops massacre German and Italian POWs.
July 27, 1943 Bombing of Hamburg in World War II 35,000 Germany 730 British bombers dropp 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.
September 9, 1943 Foiba massacre 5,000-10,000 Istria and Dalmatia in Italy Communist troops under Tito's command purge Italian fascists and colloborators until 1947.
December 16, 1943 Kalavryta massacre 696 Greece The male residents of the town are slaughtered by German troops in revenge for partisan activities.
February, 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.
January 29, 1944 Koniuchy massacre 38-300 Poland Civilians of Koniuchy murdered by 120-150 members of Soviet partisan groups.
April 2, 1944 Ascq massacre ~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.
May, 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.
June 7, 1944 Abbey Ardenne ~100+ France Canadian POW's 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.
June 9, 1944 Tulle Murders ~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.
June 10, 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.
July 14, 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).
August, 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.
September 15, 1944 Meligala massacre 800-1,500 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).
September 30, 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.
October 15, 1944 Bombing of Braunschweig in World War II ~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.
October 24, 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.
December 17, 1944 Malmédy massacre 80 Belgium Massacre of American POWs.
January-July, 1945 Sandakan Death March 2,431 Malaysia Captured Australian POWs are forced to march great distances, combined with torture and forced labor.
January 1, 1945 Chenogne massacre 60 Belgium In reprisal for the Malmedy massacre sixty German soldiers are executed by a unit of the US 11th Armored Division outside the town of Chenogne.
March 17, 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.
April 29, 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.
May, 1945 Bleiburg massacre 55,000-300,000 Yugoslavia Partisans retaliate against Ustashe, Domobrans, and many Croat civilians.
May 3, 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.
May 8, 1945 Setif Massacre 150 pied-noirs
1,500–45,000 Algerians 		Algeria
August, 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki est. 600,000 Japan The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are razed by the American Atomic bombings. Hundrends of thousands die during and after the bombings from radiation.
February, 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 repellent Allied war crimes. Exact figures are unknown but estimates range between 25,000-400,000 civilians dead and 24,000 buildings destroyed.
February 28, 1947 228 Incident 10,000-30,000 Taiwan Kuomintang government (Chinese) massacred Taiwanese civilians after uprising.
1948 Hadassah medical convoy massacre ~77 Palestine
1948 Deir Yassin massacre 107 Palestine
1950 Capture of Seoul ~100,000 Korea Civillians executed after the communist capture of Seoul.
1953 Qibya massacre ~50 West Bank
1956 Kafr Qasim massacre 49 Israel
February, 1968 Massacre at Hue ~2500 Hue, South Vietnam North Vietnamese Army and National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam executed civilians in the city of Huế.
March 16, 1968 My Lai massacre 347–504 South Vietnam US-American troops kill inhabitants of Vietnamese village suspected of harbouring Viet Cong troops ages between 1 and 81, mostly women and children.
December 14, 1971 1971 East Pakistan Intellectuals massacre ~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 20, 1976 Damour massacre ~330 Damour, Lebanon Islamist Palestinian militants raid the Lebanese Christian town of Damour during the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War.
September, 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre 800–3,000 Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese Christian Militia massacres Palestinian Refugees following Israeli invasion of Beirut.
February 26, 1992 Hocali massacre 613 Karabag, Azerbaijan Right after the Armenian invasion of the region, mostly children and women 613 people killed.
February 5, 1994 First Markale massacre 68 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Serb army shells crowded civilian marketplace in downtown Sarajevo.
August 28, 1995 Second Markale massacre 37 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Serb army shells crowded civilian marketplace in downtown Sarajevo.
April 18, 1996 Qana massacre 102 Qana, South of Lebanon
December, 2001 Dasht-i-Leili massacre 250–3000 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.

State-sponsored massacres or massacres by servants of the state during peacetime

Date Name Deaths Location Comments
1570 Novgorod massacre 10,000-100,000 Novgorod Republic Ivan the Terrible slaughters the population of Novgorod.
February 13, 1692 Massacre of Glencoe 78 Scotland The order was signed by King William II
March 5, 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.
August 16, 1819 Peterloo massacre 11 Manchester, England
July 17, 1918 Romanov massacre ~10 Yekaterinburg, Russia Bolshevik execution of Nicholas II and the Russian royal household.
March 1-April, 1919 March 1st Movement 7509 Korea Japanese troops and police opened fire on Korean protestors marching peacefully on the street calling for the independence of Korea and investigation on the sudden death of Emperor Gojong.
April 13, 1919 Amritsar massacre ~>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.
June 1-June 2, 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.
April 23, 1930 Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre ~200 Peshawar British troops fire on non-violent protesters in Peshawar in there hundreds. October 20, 1944 Gorla Massacre ~232 Childrens Allied bombing in milan hit a primary school and killed hundreds of childrens.
July 28, 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.
March 21, 1960 Sharpeville massacre 69 killed, 180+ injured South Africa Police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters.
April 31948 Jeju massacre 30,000 Korea
1948 Babra Sharif massacre ~100 Pakistan
September 27 1950 Taejon massacre 7,000 Korea
1954-1962 Algerian massacre >500,000 Algeria Killing of Algerian civilians by French Army and the FLN during the Algerian War of Independence.
October 17, 1961 Paris Massacre of 1961 32-200[link] Paris, France Killing of Algerian demonstrators
June 1-3 1962, 1962 Novocherkassk massacre 24 killed, 39 injured Novocherkassk, Soviet Union police opened fire on a crowd of protesters against inflation
December 28, 1962 Palma Sola massacre "thousands" [link] 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
February 8, 1968 Orangeburg massacre 3 South Carolina State University, USA
October 2, 1968 Tlatelolco massacre 200–300 Mexico Mexican soldiers open fire on student demonstrators.
May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre 4 Kent State University, Ohio, USA
1971 Massacre of Bangladesh ~250,000 Bangladesh Pakistani Army killed ~250,000 Bangladeshis.
June 10, 1971 Corpus Christi massacre ~25 Mexico City Special forces open fire on student demonstrators.
January 30, 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.
March, 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.
May 18, 1980 Gwangju massacre 191–250–2000 Gwangju, South Korea Government troops attack protesting students and civilians of Gwangju.
December 11, 1981 El Mozote massacre ~900 El Salvador Government troops torture and kill the residents of El Mozote.
February 2, 1982 Hama massacre 5000-20,000 Syria Syrian government troops attack rebel town of Hama, poison gas was used in some areas.
1983, 1989 The Gukurahundi ~25,000 Zimbabwe Genocide, and supression of dissident tribal areas by Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean Fifth Brigade.
March 16, 1988 Halabja poison gas attack 3,000-5,000 Iraq Gas attack on Kurdish town by Saddam Hussein.
June, 1989 Tiananmen massacre up to 2,600 Beijing, China Chinese PLA troops open fire on students and civilians gathered in Beijing.
January 13, 1991 Vilnius massacre 13 Vilnius, Lithuania Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian independence supporters.
July 31, 1991 Medininkai massacre 7 Medininkai, Lithuania Soviet military troops attacked Lithuanian customs building.
November 12, 1991 Dili massacre 271 Dili, East Timor Timorese protesting Indonesian rule are killed by Indonesian soldiers.
July 13, 1994 13 de Marzo 41 Cuba refugees drown after confrontation with Cuban Navy.
July 23, 1995 Candelaria Church Massacre ~8 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Police retaliate against street children at orphanage, leading to worldwide criticism.
December 22, 1997 Acteal massacre 45 Acteal, Mexico Allegedly government-linked paramilitaries attack a prayer meeting professing support for the goals of EZLN rebels.

Politically-motivated non-governmental massacres

Date Name Deaths Location Comments
May 24–25, 1856 Pottawatomie massacre 5 Franklin County, Kansas Radical abolitionist John Brown murders pro-slavery men with swords in "Bleeding Kansas"
April 13, 1873 Colfax massacre 100 Colfax, Louisiana
May 30, 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.
July 21, 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.
September 5, 1972 Munich Massacre 12 Munich, Germany Palestinian terrorists kidnap and kill Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games.
May 17, 1974 Dublin and Monaghan Bombings 33 Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland. Three bombs planted in the Irish Republic by the Ulster Volunteer Force. Worst number of casualties in any single day of The Troubles.
November 21, 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.
November 3, 1979 Greensboro massacre 5 Greensboro, North Carolina Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration.
April 22, 1995 Atiak massacre 170 – 220 Gulu District, Uganda Civilians killed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
November 8, 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.
October 23, 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.
February 25, 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.
July 13 to 14, 1996 Acholpii massacre ~100 Pader District, Uganda Sudanese refugees in a refugee settlement killed by Lord's Resistance Army .
January 7 to 12, 1997 Lokung/Palabek massacre ~412 Kitgum District, Uganda Civilians bludgeoned or hacked to death by the Lord's Resistance Army.
April 3, 1997 Thalit massacre 52 Thalit, Algeria
April 22, 1997 Haouch Khemisti massacre 93 Haouch Mokhfi Khemisti, Algeria
June 16, 1997 Dairat Labguer massacre ~50 Dairat Labguer, Algeria
August 20, 1997 Souhane massacre 64 Souhane, Algeria
August 28, 1997 Rais massacre ~200 Rais, Algeria
September 22, 1997 Bentalha massacre >200 Bentalha, Algeria
December 30, 1997 Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997 412 4 villages near Souk El Had, Algeria
January, 1998 Wandhama massacre 24 Wandhama, India 24 Kashmiri Pandits are brutually murdered by Pakistani militants .
January 10, 1998 Sidi Hamed massacre 103 Sidi Hamed, Algeria
August 15, 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).
December 9, 1998 Tadjena massacre 42 Algeria
September 11, 2001 September 11, 2001 attacks ~3,000 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.
May 2, 2002 Bojaya massacre 117 Bojayá, Colombia Terrorist organization FARC throw an explosive into a church full of people
March 28, 2002 Passover massacre 30 Netanya, Israel Arab suicide bomber kills civillians.
October 12, 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.
February 21, 2004 Barlonyo massacre >200 Barlonyo, Lira District, Uganda Civilians at an IDP camp are murdered by the Lord's Resistance Army.
October 1, 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.
October 4, 2003 Maxim restaurant massacre 21 Haifa, Israel
March 2, 2004 Ashoura massacre ~170 Karbala, Baghdad, (Iraq)
March 11, 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
September 3, 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis 331 Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia Chechen Islamic Terrorists hold children and teachers hostage, terrorists begin killing hostages leading to botched rescue attempt.
July 7, 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.
July 9, 2006 Hay al Jihad massacre 40 Baghdad, Iraq Shia militants executed Sunni civilians.

Labour conflicts

1919, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, supression of stikers during the Winnipeg General Strike by the "Special Police"

Date Name Deaths Location Comments
September 10,1897 Lattimer massacre 19 Hazleton, Pennsylvania Luzerne County Sheriff's posse fires on strikers at the request of mining companies
May 4, 1886 Haymarket Riot 12 Chicago, Illinois Bomb tossed amongst police and striking workers
April 20, 1914 Ludlow massacre 20 Ludlow, Colorado Suppression of a strike by twelve thousand Colorado coal miners.
December 6,1928 Massacre of the Bananeras 300-1000 Cienaga, Magdalena Oficial militar fire against Colombian strikers, workers of the United Fruit Company.
November 21, 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
May 14, 1931 Ådalen shootings 5 Sweden Swedish military forces open fire against labor demonstrators, killing 5 people

Criminal and non-political massacres

See also school massacres and "going postal".

Date Name Deaths Location Comments
February 14, 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre 7 Chicago, Illinois Members of Bugs Moran's gang are murdered by Al Capone's men
August 1, 1966 University of Texas Tower Shooting 16+2 Austin, Texas Charles Whitman goes on a shooting rampage atop the University of Texas at Austin's observation tower, killing 15 people and injuring 30. Whitman himself was also killed. Two additional deaths in later years are also attributed to this shooting.
November 18, 1978 Jonestown massacre 5+913 Jonestown, Guyana Peoples Temple cult attacks Rep. Leo Ryan and delegation; after 5 killed in shootout, Jim Jones leads mass suicide
February 18, 1983 Wah Mee massacre 13 Seattle, Washington Fourteen shot, 13 killed at a gambling club in Seattle's International District
July 18, 1984 McDonald's massacre 13 San Diego, California Twenty-one killed, 19 injured in a shooting rampage at a McDonalds
August 20, 1986 Edmond Postal massacre 14+1 Edmond, Oklahoma Postman Patrick Sherrill shot and killed fellow employees in the Post Office before committing suicide, bringing the total to 15 dead. Between 1986 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed in more than 20 separate incidents involving the United States Postal Service.
August 8, 1987 Hoddle Street massacre 7 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
August 19, 1987 Hungerford massacre 17 Hungerford, Berkshire, England A loner named Michael Robert Ryan went on the rampage in a small rural town in England, shooting people at random with an array of firearms.
December 8, 1987 Queen Street massacre 8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
February 16, 1988 ESL massacre 7 Sunnyvale, California Richard Farley, former employee of Electromagnetic Systems Labs (ESL), returned to ESL with guns and explosives and killed seven people and injured three others, including Laura Black, a woman he had been stalking for over 3 years.
December 6, 1989 École Polytechnique massacre 14+1 Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Violent misogynist Marc Lépine shoots 14 women an engineering school, shouting "I hate feminists", before killing himself.
November 13, 1990 Aramoana massacre 13 Aramoana, New Zealand Psychotic gunman, David Gray, opens fire on residents in a peaceful coastal settlement.
August 17, 1991 Strathfield massacre 7 Sydney, Australia Wade Frankum opens fire on random people in a shopping mall, and then takes his own life.
July 1, 1993 101 California Street shootings 8 San Francisco, California Gunman uses three handguns to kill 8 people and injure 6 before turning a gun on himself.
March 13, 1996 Dunblane massacre 18 Dunblane, Scotland Murders at a primary school in Scotland.
April 28, 1996 Port Arthur massacre 35 Tasmania, Australia Martin Bryant kills 35 people in the tourist town of Port Arthur
1997 Sanaa massacre 8 Yemen School massacre in Yemen
March 24, 1998 Jonesboro massacre 5 Arkansas, United States Two middle school students attack their school
April 20, 1999 Columbine High School massacre 13+2 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. It is considered to be the worst school shooting in U.S. history.
June 1, 2001 Nepalese royal family massacre 8 Katmandu, Nepal Prince Dipendra shoots his immediate family and himself at a royal dinner
June 8, 2001 Osaka school massacre 8 Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, Japan
September 27, 2001 Zug massacre 14 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.
April 26, 2002 Erfurt massacre 17 Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany Robert Steinhäuser, expelled student, enters his former high school and opens fire on teachers, killing 13 teachers, 2 students and even a police officer before finally turning the gun on himself.
March 21, 2005 Red Lake High School massacre 10 Red Lake, Minnesota, United States Jeff Weise kills 9 people on the Red Lake Chippewa Indian reservation.
January 30, 2006 Goleta Postal massacre 6+1+1 Goleta, California, United States Female former postal worker
March 25, 2006 Capitol Hill massacre 6+1 Seattle, Washington, United States Aaron Kyle Huff entered a house party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and opened fire, shooting eight, and killing six. When confronted by police, Huff killed himself.

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