massacre

A massacre is the deliberate and brutal killing of a large number of defenseless or unresisting people or animals, often carried out in a single event or short period of time.

Observed surface forms (11)

• mass murder ×4
• atrocity ×3
• mass shooting ×3
• pogrom ×3
• mass violence ×2
• Holocaust massacre ×1
• Nazi German extermination campaign ×1
• antisemitic pogrom ×1
• shooting incident ×1
• white supremacist attack ×1

• white supremacist terrorist attack ×1

Instances (54)

• Katyn massacre
• Kanto Massacre of Koreans
• Mystic Massacre
• Miami Showband killings
• Bloody Sunday
  surface form: Bloody Sunday (1972)
• Birmingham pub bombings via concept surface "mass murder"
• Kingsmill massacre
• Omagh bombing via concept surface "mass murder"
• Battle of Bad Axe
• September Massacres
• Bloody Sunday (1905)
• Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919
• St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
• My Lai massacre
• Kristallnacht via concept surface "antisemitic pogrom"
• Hamburg massacre
• Colfax massacre
• Wilmington insurrection of 1898
• Turner's Falls massacre
• Bataan Death March via concept surface "atrocity"
• Battle of Mystic Fort
• Massacre of Vassy
• 2017 Manchester Arena bombing via concept surface "mass murder"
• Murder of Piet Retief
• May 1998 anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia via concept surface "pogrom"
• Hungerford via concept surface "mass shooting"
  surface form: Hungerford massacre
• Nanjing Massacre
• Great Swamp Fight
• Simele massacre
• Chicago Race Riot of 1919 via concept surface "mass violence"
• Wounded Knee Massacre
• Munich massacre
• El Mozote massacre
• Spanish Fury (1576) in Antwerp
• Babi Yar massacre
• William Davis
  surface form: Indian Creek massacre
• Rumbula massacre via concept surface "Holocaust massacre"
• Siege of Drogheda
• Intelligenzaktion via concept surface "Nazi German extermination campaign"
• Dam Square shooting of 7 May 1945 via concept surface "mass shooting"
• September 11 attacks via concept surface "mass murder"
• Champ de Mars Massacre
• Dyer
  surface form: Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• Chios
  surface form: Chios massacre of 1822
• Thomas Smith
  surface form: Jallianwala Bagh massacre
• Boston Massacre
• Indian Creek massacre
• Tulle massacre of June 1944
• Račak massacre
• Bloody Sunday (1920)