List of events named massacres

Painting by François Dubois of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

This is a list of events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word massacre. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers". It also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".

The first recorded use in English of the word massacre in the name of an event is "Marlowe (c. 1600) (title) The massacre at Paris", (a reference to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre). Massacre can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, animals) in numbers, esp. brutally and indiscriminately". The first usage of which was "(c. 1588) Men which make no conscience for gaine sake, to breake the law of the æternall, and massaker soules (...) are dangerous subjects", and this usage is not recorded in this list.

Massacre is also used figuratively and idiomatically for events that do not involve any deaths, such as the Saturday Night Massacre, which refers to the firing and resignations of political appointees during the Watergate scandal. Such events are not listed in the table below.

List of events

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Date	Location	Name	Deaths	Description
61	Anglesey, Britannia	Menai massacre	0,000,001unknown	Gaius Suetonius Paulinus ordered the Roman army to destroy the Celtic Druid stronghold on Anglesey in Britain, sacking Druidic colleges and sacred groves. The massacre helped impose Roman religion on Britain and sent Druidism into a decline from which it never recovered.
390	Thessaloniki, Macedonia	Massacre of Thessaloniki	0,007,0007,000	Emperor Theodosius I of Rome ordered the executions after the citizens of Thessaloniki murdered a top-level military commander during a violent protest against the arrest of a popular charioteer.
627	Fortress of Banu Qurayza, Saudi Arabia	Massacre of Banu Qurayza	0,00600600-900	Muhammad ordered his followers to attack the Banu Qurayza because according to Muslim tradition he had been ordered to do so by the angel Gabriel. Muhammad had a treaty with the tribe which was betrayed. 600-900 members of the Banu Qurayza (all males old enough to have pubic hair, all of whom were non-combatants) were beheaded, while the women and children of the tribe were sold into slavery (Tabari, Ibn Ishaq). Al Waqidi influence is in Ibn Ishaqs biography. Stillman and Watt deny the authenticity of al-Waqidi. Al-Waqidi has been frequently criticized by Muslim Ulama, who claim that he is unreliable. A reliable source says all the warriors were killed based on Sa'd ibn Mu'adh judgement whom was appointed by Banu Qurzaya for arbitration. 2 Muslim's were killed
782	Verden, Lower Saxony, Germany	Massacre of Verden	0,004,5004,500	Charlemagne ordered the massacre of 4,500 imprisoned rebel pagan Saxons in response to losing two envoys, four counts, and twenty nobles in battle with the Saxons during his campaign to conquer and Christianize the Saxons during the Saxon Wars.
November 13, 1002	various cities, England	St. Brice's Day massacre	0,000,001unknown	King Ethelred II of England ordered all Danes living in England killed. The Danes were accused of aiding Viking raiders. The King of Denmark, Swein Forkbeard, invaded England and deposed King Ethelred.
December 30, 1066	Granada, Al-Andalus	Granada massacre	0,004,0004,000	Apparently angered by a rumour that Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela intended to assassinate the king and take the throne for himself, a Muslim mob killed him and hung his body on a cross. The mob went on to kill the Jewish population of the city.
May 1182	Constantinople, Byzantine Empire	Massacre of the Latins	0,060,00060,000–80,000	Wholesale massacre of all Latin (Western European) inhabitants of Constantinople by a mob.
1209	France	Massacre at Béziers	0,060,00015,000+	First major military action of the Albigensian Crusade
1325	Crow Creek Site, Great Plains, North America	Crow Creek massacre	0,000,500500	Native Americans indigenous to the area that is now South Dakota killed Central Plains villagers.
November 8, 1520	Stockholm, Sweden	Stockholm massacre (Stockholm Bloodbath)	0,000,08080–90	Days after his coronation in Stockholm, King Christian II of Denmark – trying to maintain the personal union between Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and thus keep up his claims to the Swedish throne – liquidated nobles and bishops who earlier had opposed him, or who might stir up fresh opposition.
March 1, 1563	Wassy, France	Massacre of Vassy	0,000,06363	The murder of Huguenot worshipers and citizens in an armed action by troops of Francis, Duke of Guise.
1570	Cyprus	Cyprus massacre	0,030,00030,000–50,000	Ottoman forces capturing Cyprus killed mostly Greek and Armenian Christian inhabitants.
August 23, 1572	Paris, France	St. Bartholomew's Day massacre	0,070,0005,000 - 70,000	A wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots.
October 10, 1580	Kerry, Ireland	Smerwick (Dun an Oir) massacre	0,000,600~600	English troops commanded by Grey de Wilton massacre Papal invasion forces at Dun an Oir in West Kerry
March 22, 1622	Jamestown, Virginia	Jamestown massacre	0,000,347347	The Powhatans killed 347 settlers, almost one-third of the English population of the Virginia colony.
May 26, 1637	Mystic, Connecticut	Mystic massacre	0,000,400400-700	English settlers under Captain John Mason and Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to a fortified Pequot village near the Mystic River.
1641	Ulster, Ireland	Ulster massacres	0,000,100~4,000 - ~12,000	The Ulster Massacres were a series of massacres and resulting deaths amongst the ~40,000 Protestant settlers which took place in 1641 during the Irish Rebellion.
November 1641	Portadown, Ireland	Portadown massacre	0,000,100~100	The Portadown massacre took place in November 1641 at what is now Portadown, County Armagh. Up to 100 mostly English Protestants were killed in the River Bann by a group of armed Irishmen. This was the biggest massacre of Protestant colonists during the 1641–42 uprising.
May 28, 1644	Bolton, England	Bolton massacre	0,000,200200–1,600	Royalist forces killed many of the town's defenders and citizens.
1645	Yangzhou, China	Yangzhou massacre	0,800,000Up to 800,000	Qing troops killed residents of Yangzhou as punishment for resistance
February 13, 1692	Scotland	Massacre of Glencoe	0,000,03838	Government soldiers, mainly from Clan Campbell, killed members of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe.
October 16, 1755	Snyder County, Pennsylvania	Penn's Creek massacre	0,000,1414	A group of Indians attacked settlers on Penn's Creek
May 10, 1768	Southwark in South London	Massacre of St George's Fields	0,000,007 7	British troops fired at a mob that was protesting at the imprisonment of John Wilkes, whose crime was criticizing King George III.
March 5, 1770	Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay	Boston Massacre	0,000,0055	British troops fired at a mob of colonists. This helped spark the American Revolution even though an all-colonist jury found the soldiers innocent.
July 17, 1771	Kugluktuk, Nunavut	Bloody Falls massacre	0,000,02020	Chipewyan warriors attacked an Inuit camp, killing men, women and children.
September 28, 1778	River Vale, New Jersey	Baylor Massacre	0,000,01515	British infantry troops attacked sleeping Continental Light Dragoons using bayonets.
May 29, 1780	Lancaster, South Carolina	Waxhaw massacre	0,000,113113	Loyalist troops under the command of British Colonel Banastre Tarleton slashed and bayoneted fallen American troops during the late stages of the Battle of Waxhaws. Conflicting contemporary accounts claim violation of an American white flag by one or the other of the sides involved.
September 11, 1780	Luzerne County, Pennsylvania	Sugarloaf massacre	0,000,1515	A group of loyalists and Indians during the American Revolutionary War led by Roland Montour attacked a group of American soldiers.
February 24, 1781	Alamance County, North Carolina	Pyle's Massacre	0,000,09393	Patriot militia leader Colonel Henry Lee deceived Loyalist militia under Dr. John Pyle into thinking he was British commander Banastre Tarleton sent to meet them. Lee's men then opened fire, surprising and scattering Pyle's force.
March 8, 1782	Gnadenhutten, Ohio	Gnadenhutten massacre (Moravian massacre)	0,000,09696	Pennsylvania militia men attacked a Moravian mission and killed 96 peaceful Christian American Indians there in retaliation for unrelated deaths of several white Pennsylvanians.
1792	France	September Massacres	0,001,440~1440	Popular courts in the French Revolution sentenced prisoners to death, including around 240 priests.
1794	Warsaw, Poland	Massacre of Praga	0,020,00020,000	Inhabitants of the Warsaw district Praga were massacred by pillaging Russian troops following the Battle of Praga.
December 1809	Whangaroa, New Zealand	Boyd massacre	0,000,06666	Whangaroa Māori killed and ate 66 crew and passengers on ship The Boyd.
December 9, 1817	Madulla, Central Province, Sri Lanka	Madulla massacre	0,000,02222	British troops killed 22 unarmed native civilians who were hiding in a cave.
1818	Uva Province, Sri Lanka	Uva-Wellassa Massacre	Male population above the age of 18 in the Uva ProvinceMale population above the age of 18	The 1818 Uva-Wellassa Uprising also known as the Great Rebellion resulted in multiple atrocities against the local Sri Lankans by the British imperialists, including razing and annihilation of villages. The entire Uva region male population above the age of 18 years were killed in revenge for resistance against the British imperialist occupation.
August 16, 1819	Manchester, England	Peterloo Massacre	0,000,01111	Armed cavalry charged a peaceful pro-democracy meeting of 60,000 people.
March 1821	Constantinople	Massacre of Constaninopolitan Greeks	See Constantinople Massacre of 1821	Hundreds of Greeks were massacred by the Ottomans, including the Greek patriarch, bishops and officials.
August 19, 1821	Navarino, Peloponnese, Greece	Navarino massacre	0,003,0003,000	The whole Turkish population of Navarino, which was around 3000, were killed by Greeks.
1822	Chios, Greece	Chios massacre	0,020,000about 52,000	Tens of thousands of Greeks on the island of Chios were slaughtered by Ottoman troops in 1822.
January 1838	Waterloo Creek, Australia	Waterloo Creek massacre	0,000,100100–300	Aboriginal Australians killed by a force of colonial mounted police.
June 10, 1838	Myall Creek, Australia	Myall Creek massacre	0,000,02828	A mainly white posse (one of whom was a black African) killed Aboriginal Australians. The perpetrators were convicted and sentenced to death.
October 5, 1838	Cherokee County, Republic of Texas	Killough massacre	0,000,01818	In the largest attack by Native Americans on white settlers in Texas, a disaffected band of Cherokee, Caddo, Coushatta, and perhaps other ethnicities formed a war party and killed 18 members of the extended Killough family, who had settled in the area after the Senate of the Republic of Texas nullified the (land) treaty which President Sam Houston had negotiated with the Cherokee.
October 30, 1838	Caldwell County, Missouri, United States	Haun's Mill massacre	0,000,01919	About 240 Livingston County Missouri Regulators militiamen and volunteers killed 18 Mormons and one non-Mormon friend.
1840	Gippsland, Australia	Gippsland massacres	0,000,450~450	A series of massacres spanning several years: 1840 – Nuntin, 1840 – Boney Point, 1841 – Butchers Creek – 30–35, 1841 – Maffra, 1842 – Skull Creek, 1842 – Bruthen Creek – "hundreds killed", 1843 – Warrigal Creek – between 60 and 180 shot, 1844 – Maffra, 1846 – South Gippsland – 14 killed, 1846 – Snowy River – 8 killed, 1846–47 – Central Gippsland – 50 or more shot, 1850 – East Gippsland – 15–20 killed, 1850 – Murrindal – 16 poisoned, 1850 – Brodribb River – 15–20 killed. See also Angus McMillan.
January 6, 1842	Afghanistan	Massacre of Elphinstone's Army	0,016,00016,000	Afghan tribes massacred Elphinstone's British army including some 12,000 civilians.
April 8, 1857	Caborca, Sonora, Mexico	Crabb Massacre	0,000,08484	Mexican rebels fight American rebels at Caborca, Sonora. Out of less than ninety Americans, about thirty were killed in battle and the rest were executed by the Mexicans.
September 11, 1857	Mountain Meadows, Utah, United States	Mountain Meadows massacre	0,000,120120–140	Mormon militia, some dressed as Indians, and Paiute tribesmen killed and plundered unarmed members of the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train.
January 18, 1863	Madison County, North Carolina, United States	Shelton Laurel Massacre	0,000,01313	Thirteen boys and men, accused of being Union sympathizers and spies, were summarily executed by members of the 64th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate Army.
January 29, 1863	Washington Territory near present day Preston, Idaho United States	Bear River massacre	0,000,225~225	3rd Regiment California Volunteer Infantry destroyed a village of Shoshone in southeastern Idaho.
August 21, 1863	Lawrence, Kansas, United States	Lawrence massacre	0,000,150~150	Pro-Confederate bushwhackers attacked the town of Lawrence, Kansas during the American Civil War in retaliation for the Union attack on Osceola, Missouri.
April 12, 1864	Henning, Tennessee, United States	Fort Pillow massacre	0,000,350350	After their surrender following the Battle of Fort Pillow, most of the Union garrison – consisting primarily of Black troops – as well as civilians, including women and children, were massacred by Confederate forces under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
November 29, 1864	Kiowa County, Colorado, United States	Sand Creek massacre	0,000,200~200	Colorado Territory 90-day militia destroyed a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho on the eastern plains.
November 27, 1868	Indian Territory, United States	Washita Massacre (Battle of Washita River)	0,000,02929–150	Lt. Col. G.A.Custer's 7th cavalry attacked a village of sleeping Cheyenne led by Black Kettle. Custer reported 103 – later revised to 140 – warriors, "some" women and "few" children killed, and 53 women and children taken hostage. Other casualty estimates by cavalry members, scouts and Indians vary widely, with the number of men killed ranging as low as 11 and the numbers of women and children ranging as high as 75. Before returning to their base, the cavalry killed several hundred Indian ponies and burned the village.
October 24, 1871	Los Angeles California, United States	Chinese massacre of 1871	0,003,00018	A mob of over 500 men entered Chinatown in Los Angeles, rioted, ransacked, then tortured and killed 18 Chinese-Americans, making this the largest mass lynching in American history.
April 30, 1876	Batak Ottoman Empire	Batak massacre	0,003,0003,000–5,000	Ottoman army irregulars killed Bulgarian civilians barricaded in Batak's church.
April 2, 1885	Frog Lake, North-West Territories, Canada	Frog Lake Massacre	0,000,0099	Cree warriors, dissatisfied with the lack of support from the Canadian Government for Treaty Indians, and exacerbated by food shortages resulting from the near-extinction of bison, killed nine white settlers, including Indian agent Thomas Quinn.
September 2, 1885	Rock Springs, Wyoming, United States	Rock Springs massacre	0,000,02828	Rioting white immigrant miners killed 28 Chinese miners, wounded 15, and 75 Chinese homes burned.
December 29, 1890	Wounded Knee, South Dakota, United States	Wounded Knee Massacre	0,000,200200–300	The U.S. 7th Cavalry intercepted a band of Lakota people on their way to the Pine Ridge Reservation for shelter from the winter; as they were disarming them, a gun was fired, and the soldiers turned their artillery on the Lakota, killing men women and children.
1894–1896	Armenian Highlands, Ottoman Empire	Hamidian massacres	0,100,000100,000–300,000	Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered Ottoman forces to kill Armenians across the empire.
September 10, 1897	Pennsylvania, United States	Lattimer massacre	0,000,01919	Unarmed striking miners were shot in the back: many were wounded and 19 were killed.
January 18, 1900	Guaymas, Mexico	Mazocoba massacre	0,000,400~400	Mexican Army troops attack Yaqui hostiles west of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico.
January 31, 1902	Leliefontein, Northern Cape, South Africa	Leliefontein massacre	0,000,03535	During the Second Boer War, Boer forces under Manie Maritz massacred 35 Khoikhoi for being British sympathisers.
March 10, 1906	Bud Dajo, Jolo Island, Philippines	Moro Crater massacre	0,000,800800–1,000	A U.S. Army force of 540 soldiers under the command of Major General Leonard Wood, accompanied by a naval detachment and with a detachment of native constabulary, armed with artillery and small firearms, attacked a Muslim village hidden in the crater of a dormant volcano.
December 21, 1907	Chile	Santa María School massacre	0,002,2002,200–3,600	Was a massacre of striking workers, mostly saltpeter (nitrate) miners, along with wives and children, committed by the Chilean Army in Iquique, Chile. It occurred during the peak of the nitrate mining era, which coincided with the Parliamentary Period in Chilean political history (1891–1925). With the massacre and an ensuing reign of terror, not only was the strike broken, but the workers' movement was thrown into limbo for over a decade.
April–May 1909	Adana Province, Ottoman Empire	Adana massacre	0,015,00015,000–30,000	In April 1909, a religious-ethnic clash in the city of Adana, amidst governmental upheaval, resulted in a series of anti-Armenian pogroms throughout the district, resulting in an estimated 15,000 to 30,000 deaths.
April 20, 1914	Ludlow, Colorado, United States	Ludlow massacre	0,000,02020	Twenty people, 11 of them children, died during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado. The event led to wider conflict quelled only by Federal troops sent in by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
April 13, 1919	Amritsar, India	Jallianwala Bagh massacre	0,000,379379–1526	90 British Indian Army soldiers, led by Brigadier Reginald Dyer, opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The firing lasted for 10 to 15 minutes, until they ran out of ammunition.
November 21, 1920	Dublin, Ireland	Croke Park Massacre	0,000,02323	British Auxiliary police and Black and Tans fired at Gaelic football spectators at Croke Park.
January 1923	Rosewood, Florida, United States	Rosewood Massacre	0,000,0088	Several days of violence by white mobs, ranging in size up to 400 people, resulted in the deaths of six blacks and two whites and the destruction of the town of Rosewood, which was abandoned after the incident.
June 23, 1925	Eastern Jiaochang, China	Shaji Massacre	0,000,50~50	A group of strikers in Canton, China, in support of a workers' strike in Hong Kong, were fired upon by British troops, who claimed to have been provoked by gunfire. Over 200 casualties resulted.
May 18, 1927	Bath Township, Michigan, United States	Bath School massacre (Bath School disaster)	0,000,4545	37 children and a 30-year-old teacher at Bathtown elementary school were killed by a major explosion set off by school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe. About a half hour after the explosion, Kehoe then detonated dynamite in his truck, killing himself and five others, including a fourth grader and four adults. Also, some hours before the event, Kehoe killed his wife at their Bath Township home. This event was the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.
August 14, 1928	Coniston, Northern Territory, Australia	Coniston massacre	0,000,08531–170	The last known officially sanctioned massacre of indigenous Australians which took place in the vicinity of Coniston cattle station in Northern Territory, Australia in revenge for the death of a dingo hunter named Frederick Brooks.
December 6, 1928	Ciénaga, Magdalena, Colombia	Banana massacre	0,000,047Unknown (estimated 47–2,000)	The Banana massacre was a massacre of workers for the United Fruit Company that occurred on December 6, 1928 in the town of Ciénaga near Santa Marta, Colombia. An unknown number of workers died after the Conservative government of Miguel Abadía decided to send the Colombian army to end a month-long strike organized by the workers' union in order to secure better working conditions. The government of the United States of America had threatened to invade with the U.S. Marine Corps if the Colombian government did not act to protect United Fruit’s interests.
February 14, 1929	Chicago, United States	Saint Valentine's Day massacre	0,000,0077	Al Capone's gang shot rival gang members and their associates.
August 1929	Hebron, Mandatory Palestine	1929 Hebron massacre	0,000,06969	Arabs kill 69 Jews after being incited by religious leaders. Survivors were relocated to Jerusalem, "leaving Hebron barren of Jews for the first time in hundreds of years."
August 1929	Safed, Mandatory Palestine	1929 Safed massacre	0,000,01818	Arabs killed 18 Jews, wounded around 40, and some 200 houses were burned and looted.
April 23, 1930	Peshawar, British Raj	Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre	0,000,200200–250	Soldiers of the British Raj fired on unarmed non-violent protestors of the Khudai Khidmatgar with machine guns during the Indian independence movement
July 1930	Van Province, Turkey	Zilan massacre	0,004,5004,500 - 47,000	Turkish troops massacred Kurdish residents during the Ararat rebellion.
August 1933	Iraq	Simele massacre	0,003,0003,000	Iraqi Army killed 3,000 Assyrian men women and children. The massacre amongst other things included rape, cars running over children and bayoneting pregnant women and children.
March 21, 1937	Ponce, Puerto Rico	Ponce massacre	0,000,01919	The Insular Police fired on unarmed Nationalist demonstrators peacefully marching to commemorate the ending of slavery in Puerto Rico. It was the biggest massacre in Puerto Rican history.
1937–1938	Tunceli Province, Turkey	Dersim Massacre	0,013,16013,160-70,000	Turkish troops massacred Alevi residents during the Dersim Rebellion.
December 1937 – January 1938	Nanjing, China	Nanking Massacre	0,260,000as many as if not more than 300,000	The Imperial Japanese Army pillaged and burned Nanking while, at the same time, murdering, enslaving, and torturing prisoners of war and civilians.
April–May 1940	Katyn, Soviet Union	Katyn massacre	0,022,00021,857–25,700	Soviet NKVD executed Polish intelligentsia, POWs and reserve officers.
June–October 1941	Soviet Union, Baltic states	NKVD prisoner massacres	0,09,0009,000–100,000	The Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del, or NKVD) executed thousands of political prisoners in the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa.
September 29, 1941	Ukraine	Babi Yar massacre	0,030,00130,000	Nazi Einsatzgruppen killed the Jewish population of Kiev.
October 20–21, 1941	Serbia	Kragujevac massacre	0,002,7962,796-5,000	Nazi soldiers massacred Serb and Roma hostages in retaliation for attacks on the occupying forces.
October 22–24, 1941	Odessa, Soviet Union	Odessa Massacre	0,025,00025,000–34,000	Romanian and German troops, supported by local authorities, massacred Jews in Odessa and the surrounding towns in Transnistria after a bomb detonated in the Romanian HQ.
November 25 and 29, 1941	Kaunas, Lithuania	Ninth Fort massacres of November 1941	0,025,0004,934	The first systematic mass killings of German Jews during the Holocaust.
February 1942	Laha Airfield, Ambon Island	Laha massacre	0,000,300~300	The Japanese killed surrendered Australian soldiers.
June 10, 1942	Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia	Lidice massacre	0,000,340340	Nazis killed 192 men, and sent the women and children to Nazi concentration camps where many died.
September 21, 1943	Kefalonia, Greece	Massacre of the Acqui Division	0,005,0005,155	Wehrmacht troops executed 5,155 POWs from the Italian 33 Infantry Division Acqui after the latter refused to hand over their weapons and resisted. A further 3,000 Italian POWs drowned at sea on transports that sank after hitting mines.
October 7, 1943	Wake Island	Wake Island massacre	0,000,9898	Japanese forces under Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara massacred the remaining 98 U.S. civilians in fear of the anticipation U.S. invasion of Wake Island two days after a U.S. air raid on the island.
December 13, 1943	Kalavryta, Greece	Massacre of Kalavryta	0,000,511511-1200	The extermination of the male population and the subsequent total destruction of the town of Kalavryta, in Greece, by German occupying forces during World War II on 13 December 1943. It is the most serious case of war crimes committed during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.
January 27, 1944	Chechnya, Soviet Union	Khaibakh massacre	0,000,700700	The Khaibakh massacre refers to a report of mass execution of the ethnically Chechen population of the aul of Khaibakh, in the mountainous part of Chechnya, by Soviet forces under a NKVD colonel Mikhail Gveshiani.
April 1, 1944	Ascq, France	Ascq massacre	0,000,08686	The Waffen-SS killed 86 men after a bomb attack in the gare d'Ascq.
June 10, 1944	Oradour-sur-Glane, France	Oradour-sur-Glane massacre	0,000,642642	The Waffen-SS killed 642 men, women and children without giving any specific reasons for their actions.
June 10, 1944	Distomo, Greece	Distomo massacre	0,000,218218	Nazi war crime perpetrated by members of the Waffen-SS in the village of Distomo, Greece, during the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II.
August 8, 1944	Warsaw, Poland	Wola massacre	0,040,00040,000–100,000	Special groups of SS and German soldiers of the Wehrmacht went from house to house in Warsaw district Wola, rounding-up and shooting all inhabitants.
August 12, 1944	Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy	Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre	0,000,560560	Retreating SS-men of the II Battallion of SS-Panzergrenadier–Regiment 35 of 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, rounded up 560 villagers and refugees — mostly women, children and older men — shot them and then burned their bodies.
August 1944	Warsaw, Poland	Ochota massacre	0,010,00010,000	Mass murders of citizens of Warsaw district Ochota in August 1944, committed by Waffen-SS.
August 26, 1944	Rüsselsheim, Germany	Rüsselsheim massacre	0,000,66	The townspeople of Rüsselsheim killed six American POWs who were walking through the bombed-out town while escorted by two German guards.
October 1944	Italy	Marzabotto massacre	0,000,700700–1,800	The SS killed Italian civilians in reprisal for support given to the resistance movement.
December 1944	Malmedy, Belgium	Malmedy massacre	0,000,08888	Nazi Waffen SS soldiers shot American POWs (43 escaped).
January 1945	Chenogne, Belgium	Chenogne massacre	0,000,06060	German prisoners of war were shot by American soldiers in an unauthorized retaliation for the Malmedy Massacre.
February 1945	Manila, Philippines	Manila massacre	0,100,000100,000	Japanese occupying forces massacred an estimated 100,000 Filipino civilians during the Battle of Manila.
April 10, 1945	Celle, Germany	Celler Hasenjagd	0,000,300300	The Celler Hasenjagd ("hare chase of Celle") was a massacre of concentration camp inmates that took place in Celle at the end of the Second World War.
May 15, 1945	Bleiburg, Austria	Bleiburg massacre	0,050,000tens of thousands	Fleeing Croatian soldiers, members of the Chetnik movement and Slovene Home Guard associated with the fascist Ustaše Regime of Croatia were apprehended by Yugoslav Partisans at the Austrian border. Among those killed were an unknown number of civilians.
May 1945	Sétif, Algeria	Sétif massacre	0,006,0006,000	Muslim villages were bombed by French aircraft and the cruiser Duguay-Trouin standing off the coast, in the Gulf of Bougie, shelled Kerrata. Pied noir vigilantes lynched prisoners taken from local gaols or randomly shot Muslims
July 31, 1945	Ústí nad Labem, today Czech republic	Ústí massacre	0,006,00080-2700	The Ústí massacre (Czech: Ústecký masakr, German: Massaker von Aussig) was a lynching of ethnic Germans in Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig an der Elbe), a largely ethnic German city in northern Bohemia ("Sudetenland") shortly after the end of the World War II, on July 31, 1945.
February 28, 1947	Taiwan	February 28 Incident	0,001,60018,000~28,000	It was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan, and was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang government.
May 1, 1947	Piana degli Albanesi, Italy	Portella della Ginestra massacre	0,001,60011	11 people were killed and 27 wounded during May Day celebrations in Sicily on May 1, 1947, in the municipality of Piana degli Albanesi, by the bandit and separatist leader Salvatore Giuliano and his band.
December 30, 1947	Haifa, Mandatory Palestine	Haifa Oil Refinery massacre	0,001,60045	Zionist group Irgun throws a bomb on a group of 100 Palestinian refinery workers, killing 6 and wounding 42. Palestinian workers then attack Jewish refinery workers in retaliation, resulting in 39 deaths and 49 injuries,
December 31, 1947	Haifa, Mandatory Palestine	Balad al-Shaykh massacre	0,001,60017-71	Haganah attacks residents of Palestinian Balad al-Shaykh village, killing 21 while residents were asleep.
April 3, 1948	Jeju island, South Korea	Jeju massacre	0,014,00014,000-60,000	Brutal suppression of an uprising. Many Communist sympathizer civilians were killed by South Korean troops whilst putting down the rebellion. Between 14,000 to 60,000 people died during the uprising.
April 9, 1948	Deir Yassin, Mandatory Palestine	Deir Yassin massacre	0,000,107107	The Deir Yassin massacre took place when the Irgun and Lehi Zionist terrorist groups attacked the Palestinian Arab village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, population of 750. Villagers had signed an non-aggression pact with Zionist forces and were asleep at the time of the attack. Arab fatalities estimate 107 included civilian men, women, and children.
April 13, 1948	Mount Scopus, Mandatory Palestine	Hadassah medical convoy massacre	0,000,07979	Convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces. 78 Jews, mainly doctors and nurses, were killed in the ambush.
May 13, 1948	Kfar Etzion, Mandatory Palestine	Kfar Etzion massacre	0,000,0157157	Arab armed forces attacked a Jewish kibbutz the day before the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel
July 11, 1948	Lydda, Mandatory Palestine	Lydda massacre (Dahamsh Mosque massacre)	0,000,0250250-426	Over 150 Palestinian civilians had taken shelter in the Dahamsh Mosque during the Israeli conquest of Lydda (today's Lod) when an Israeli soldier dug a hole in the wall of the mosque and shot an anti-tank shell through it. All were crushed against the walls by the pressure from the blast and killed. Also killed were 20 more after cleaning up the scene of the massacre. More civilians were killed as Israeli soldiers of the 89th Brigade, led by Moshe Dayan, throw grenades inside Palestinian houses, and those who fled to the streets were shot at by Zionist militants. Almost the entire population of Lydda, about 50,000 civilians at the time, which included many refugees, were then expelled and hundreds of men, women and children died due to dehydration, exhaustion and disease during a "death march" to the Arab front lines.
November 28, 1948	Al-Dawayima, Mandatory Palestine	Al-Dawayima massacre	0,000,14080 - 200	The killing of civilians by the Israeli army (IDF) that took place in the Palestinian Arab town of al-Dawayima on during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
October 30, 1948	Eilabun, Israel	Eilabun massacre	0,000,01414	Israeli army kills 14 Palestinian Christians from the Eilaboun village, in north Israel, and expels the rest of the residents to Lebanon. Part of the community returns some months thereafter, due to pressure from the United Nations and the Vatican.
October 31 – November 1, 1948	Hula, Lebanon	Hula massacre	0,000,03535-58	The Hula massacre took place October 31 – November 1, 1948. Hula is a Lebanese Shi'a Muslim village near the Lebanese Litani River. It was captured by the Carmeli Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces without any resistance. 35–58 captured men were reportedly shot down in a house which was later blown up on top of them. Two officers were responsible for the massacre; one served a one-year prison sentence and later received presidential amnesty. Shmuel Lahis was later to become Director General of the Jewish Agency.
	Saliha, Mandatory Palestine	Saliha massacre	0,000,09494	94 Palestinian villagers are packed inside an abode, which was then blown up over their heads by the Zionist Seventh Brigade.
December 12, 1948	Batang Kali, Malaya	Batang Kali massacre	0,000,02424	Villagers were purportedly shot by British troops before the village was burnt.
December 24, 1949	Mungyeong, South Korea	Mungyeong massacre	0,000,08686-88	Communist sympathizer civilians were killed by South Korean troops.
June 28, 1950	South Korea	Bodo League massacre	0,004,934 4,934	During the Korean War, communist sympathizer civilians or prisoners were killed by South Korean troops. Some scholars insist that the number of victims is between 100,000 and 200,000, but the confirmed number by Truth and Reconciliation Commission(2005) is 4,934.
June 28, 1950	Seoul, South Korea	Seoul National University Hospital Massacre	0,000,900900	During the Korean War, medical personnels, inpatients and wounded soldiers were killed by North Korean troops. The victims were 900
July 26–29, 1950	No Gun Ri, South Korea	No Gun Ri Massacre	0,000,100163-400	Early in the Korean War, South Korean refugees trying to cross U.S. lines at No Gun Ri were killed by U.S. troops fearing North Korean infiltrators. In 2005, the South Korean government certified the names of 150 dead, 13 missing and 55 wounded, some of whom died of wounds, and said reports on many more victims were not filed. Survivors estimated 400 dead.
August 14, 1950	Waegwan, South Korea	Hill 303 massacre	0,000,04141	During the Korean War, American POWs were massacred by North Korean Army on August 14, 1950.
October 1950 – early 1951	Namyangju, North Korea	Namyangju massacre	0,000,460460	During the Korean War, South Korean citizens were massacred by South Korean police between October 1950 to early 1951.
October 9–31, 1950	Goyang, South Korea	Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre	0,000,153153	During the Korean War, South Korean civilians were massacred by South Korean police between October 9 to October 31, 1950.
October 17 – December 7, 1950	Sinchon, North Korea	Sinchon Massacre	0,030,00030,000	The North Korean government claims that North Korean citizens were massacred by United States forces between October 17 to December 7, 1950. This is widely disputed.
January 6–9, 1951	Ganghwa, South Korea	Ganghwa massacre	0,000,212212-1,300	During the Korean War, Communist collabolator civilians were massacred by South Korean forces, South Korean Police forces and pro-South Korea forces Militia.
February 7, 1951	Sancheong and Hamyang, South Korea	Sancheong and Hamyang massacre	0,000,705705	During the Korean War, Communist sympathizer civilians were massacred by South Korean Army on February 7, 1951.
February 9–11, 1951	Geochang, South Korea	Geochang massacre	0,000,719719	During the Korean War, Communist sympathizer civilians were massacred by South Korean Army between February 9 and February 11, 1951.
March 26, 1953	Lari near Nairobi, Kenya	Lari Massacre	0,000,150~150	About 150 Kikuyu were killed by fellow tribesmen.
October 29, 1956	Kafr Qasim, Israel	Kafr Qasim massacre	0,000,04848-49	Israeli Border Police shoot Israeli Arab farmers returning to their village from work, unaware of a curfew imposed on it. The police command ordered that civilians caught disobeying the curfew be shot. Over half the casualties were women and children.
March 21, 1960	Sharpeville, South Africa	Sharpeville massacre	0,000,07272–90	South African police shot down black protesters.
June 16, 1960	Mueda, Mozambique	Mueda massacre	0,000,200200–325	Makonde nationalists organized a demonstration in front of the Mueda District headquarters on the Mueda town square demanding independence from Portugal, apparently the district administrator had invited them to present their grievances. The administrator ordered the leaders arrested, and the crowd protested. The Portuguese administrator ordered his pre-assembled troops to fire on the crowd, and then many more were thrown to their death into a ravine. The number of dead is in dispute. However, resentment generated by these events led ultimately to independentist guerrilla FRELIMO gaining needed momentum in the outset of the Mozambican War of Independence.
October 17, 1961	Paris, France	Paris massacre of 1961	0,000,200200–325	French police, commanded by Maurice Papon, crushed a pacific demonstration of Algerians independentists.
June 2, 1962	Novocherkassk, Soviet Union	Novocherkassk massacre	0,000,02323–70	The MVD open fire on a crowd of protesters demonstrating against inflation.
July 5, 1962	Oran, Algeria	Oran massacre of 1962	0,000,20095–548	Massacre of European, mostly French—civilians by the Algerian FLN, at the end of the Algerian War (1954–62).
January 18–21, 1964	Zanzibar	Massacres during the Zanzibar Revolution	0,008,0008,000–17,000	Following the overthrow of the Sultan, thousands of Arabs and Indians were massacred by John Okello's forces.
February 12 – March 17, 1966	Tay Vinh massacre village in Tây Sơn District of Bình Định Province, South Vietnam	Tay Vinh massacre	0,001,2001,200	South Korean soldiers killed 1,200 South Vietnamese villagers.
February 26, 1966	Gò Dài hamlet, Binh An village in Tây Sơn District of Bình Định Province, South Vietnam	Gò Dài massacre	0,000,380380	South Korean soldiers killed 380 unarmed South Vietnamese villagers.
August 1, 1966	Austin, Texas, United States	University of Texas massacre	0,000,1616	University of Texas at Austin was the site of a massacre by Charles Whitman, who killed his mother and wife at their homes before killing 15 and wounding 32 others at the University atop the university tower before the police killed him.
October 9, 1966	Binh Tai village in Phước Bình District of Sông Bé Province, South Vietnam	Binh Tai Massacre	0,000,06868	South Korean soldiers killed 68 South Vietnamese villagers.
October 9–10, 1966	Tinh Son village, Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam	Diên Niên - Phước Bình massacre	0,000,280280	South Korean soldiers killed 280 South Vietnamese villagers.
December 3–6, 1966	Binh Hoa village in Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam	Bình Hòa massacre	0,000,422422-430	South Korean soldiers killed South Vietnamese villagers.
January 31 – February 28, 1968	Huế, South Vietnam	Huế massacre	0,002,8002,800–6,000	During the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War, unarmed South Vietnamese civilians were massacred by North Vietnamese Army and Vietcong. Numerous mass graves were discovered in and around Huế after the Offensive. Victims included women, men, children, and infants. Estimated death toll was between 2,800 - 6,000 civilians and POWs. The Republic of Vietnam released a list of 4,062 victims identified as having been either murdered or abducted. Victims were found bound, tortured, and often buried alive. Many victims were also clubbed to death.
1968	Corregidor, Philippines	Jabidah Massacre	11-200
February 12, 1968	Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat hamlets, Dien Ban District of Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam	Phong Nhi and Phong Nhat massacre	0,000,07979	South Korean soldiers killed unarmed South Vietnamese villagers.
February 25, 1968	Hà My village, Quảng Nam Province, South Vietnam	Hà My massacre	0,000,135135	South Korean soldiers killed unarmed South Vietnamese villagers.
March 16, 1968	Mỹ Lai and Mỹ Khê hamlets, Sơn Mỹ, Quảng Ngãi, South Vietnam	My Lai Massacre	0,000,504504	U.S. soldiers murdered, tortured and assaulted 347–504 unarmed South Vietnamese villagers–suspected of aiding Vietcong–ranging in ages from 1 to 81 years, mostly women and children.
October 2, 1968	Mexico City, Mexico	Tlatelolco massacre	0,000,02525–250	Government troops massacred between 25 (officially) and 250 (according to human rights activists, CIA documents and independent investigations) students 10 days before the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the massacre.
May 4, 1970	Kent State University, Ohio, United States	Kent State massacre	0,000,0044	29 members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on the Kent State University college campus, killing 4 and wounding 9, one of whom was permanently paralyzed.
May 15, 1971	Barisal District, East Pakistan	Ketnar Bil massacre	0,000,120More than 500	Massacre of unarmed Bengali Hindus in Ketnar Bil region of Barisal District by the Pakistan Occupation Army.
June 10, 1971	Mexico City, Mexico	Corpus Christi massacre	0,000,120? (officially)-120 (according to independent investigations)	Similar to the Tlatelolco Massacre, the Corpus Christi Massacre took place on Thursday, June 10, 1971 when a student march got brutally attacked by a shock group called Los Halcones.
January 30, 1972	Derry, Northern Ireland	Bogside Massacre (Bloody Sunday)	0,000,01414	British paratroopers fired on unarmed civil rights protesters, killing 14. The government sponsored Saville Report, released in June 2010, found all those killed were innocent civil rights demonstrators, prompting an apology by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. As of that time, no one had been prosecuted for the killings.
May 30, 1972	Lod, Israel	Lod Airport massacre	0,000,02626	Three members of the Japanese Red Army, on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, killed 26 people and injured 80 others at Tel Aviv's Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport).
September 5, 1972	Munich, Germany	Munich Massacre	0,000,01212	Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and killed by the Palestinian Black September group. A West German police officer was also killed.
May 25, 1973	Ezeiza, Argentina	Ezeiza Massacre	0,000,01313	Members of the right wing of the Peronist party shot and killed at least 13 after Peron's return to Argentina.
May 15, 1974	Ma'alot, Israel	Ma'alot massacre	0,000,02929	Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine infiltrate Israel from Lebanon, shoot and kill a Christian Arab woman and a Jewish couple and their 4-year-old son, and then take hostage and kill 22 high school students and three of their adult escorts.
August 14, 1974	Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda, Cyprus	Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre	0,000,126126	EOKA-B gunmen massacred the Turkish Cypriot inhabitants of the villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda.
July 31, 1975	Northern Ireland	Miami Showband massacre	0,000,0055	Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) killed three members of pop group the Miami Showband in a gun and bomb attack. Two UVF members also died when the bomb exploded prematurely.
January 5, 1976	Northern Ireland	Kingsmill massacre	0,000,01010	Irish republicans shot ten Protestant workers dead outside the village of Kingsmill in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
January 18, 1976	Lebanon	Karantina massacre	0,001,5001,500	Lebanese Christian militias overrun the Karantina district in East Beirut and kill up to 1,500 Palestinians and Muslims during the Lebanese Civil War.
January 20, 1976	Lebanon	Damour massacre	0,000,582582	Palestinian militia aligned with the Lebanese National Movement kill 150 to 582 Christian civilians in the village of Damour during the Lebanese Civil War, in retaliation for the Karantina massacre.
August 12, 1976	Lebanon	Tel al-Zaatar massacre	0,001,5001,500 to 3000	Lebanese Christian militias enter the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp and kill up to 3,000 people during the Lebanese Civil War.
March 11, 1978	Israel	Coastal Road massacre	0,000,03535	Palestinian Fatah members based in Lebanon land on a beach north of Tel Aviv, kill an American photographer, and hijack an inter-city bus driving along Israel's Coastal Highway. 35 civilians are killed and 80 wounded.
January 31, 1979	Marichjhapi, West Bengal, India	Marichjhapi massacre	0,015,00050-1000	Marichjhapi massacre refers to the forcible eviction of Bangladeshi refugees and their subsequent death by starvation, exhaustion and police firing in the period between January to June, 1979.
May 18, 1980	South Korea	Gwangju massacre	0,002,000165	An escalated popular uprising in the city of Gwangju, South Korea during which some of the civilian protesters armed themselves by raiding police stations and military depots led to the South Korean army violently ending the protests, causing 165(maximum estimated)of deaths(including 24 soldiers, 4 policemen).
June 27, 1980	Palmyra, Syria	Tadmor Prison massacre	0,001,000about 1,000	The massacre occurred the day after a failed attempt to assassinate Syrian president Hafez el-Assad. Members of the units of the Defence Brigades, under the command of Rifaat El Assad, brother of the president, entered in Tadmor Prison and assassinated about a thousand prisoners in the cells and the dormitories.
December 11, 1981	El Salvador	El Mozote Massacre	0,001,0011,000	The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces trained by the United States military killed at least 1000 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
January 14, 1982	Mexico	Tula Massacre	0,000,01313	13 tortured bodies were found at Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico at the time of Arturo Durazo Moreno Administration
February 2, 1982	Syria	Hama massacre	0,007,0007,000–35,000	The Syrian Army killed an estimated 30,000 people in the city of Hama. Instances of mass execution and torture by the Syrian military were documented during the attacks.
September 16–18, 1982	Lebanon	Sabra and Shatila massacre	0,000,700700–3,500	Residents of Sabra and Shatila, mostly Palestinian refugees and Lebanese Shia, are killed by the Christian Lebanese Forces militia in the refugee camps, with the help of Israeli forces that encircled the area. The United Nations General Assembly condemned the massacre and declared it to be an act of genocide.
April 3, 1983	Peru	Lucanamarca massacre	0,000,06969	Maoist Shining Path guerrillas massacre 69 men, women and children with axes, machetes and guns in and around the town of Lucanamarca, Peru.
July 24, 1983	Sri Lanka	Black July	0,00,0693000	Sri Lankan mobs and armed gangs supported partially by the Government of Sri Lanka massacre thousands of Tamils all over the country.
February 10, 1984	Kenya	Wagalla massacre	0,005,000~5000	a massacre of ethnic Somalis by Kenyan security forces who first gathered them at the Wagalla Airstrip, Wajir County, Kenya.
July 18, 1984	San Diego, United States	San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre	0,000,02121	Gunman James Oliver Huberty killed 21 people in a McDonald's restaurant before being fatally shot by a SWAT team sniper.
October 31–November 3, 1984	India	1984 Sikh Massacre	0,000,0212,700–20,000	Mobs composed primarily of Indian National Congress workers and local hoodlums chase down and lynch Sikhs in northern India following the assassination of India PM, Indira Gandhi, at the hands of her Sikh guards.
March 23, 1985	Iraq	Dujail Massacre	0,000,129129 (33 died in detention before trial)	Dujail was the site of an unsuccessful assassination attempt against then Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein by the Shiite Dawa Party, on July 8, 1982. Saddam Hussein ordered his special security and military forces to arrest all Dawa members and their families, imprisoning 787 men, women and children. In March 1985, 96 of the 148 who had confessed to having taken part in the assassination attempt were executed.
May 14, 1985	Sri Lanka	Anuradhapura massacre	0,000,047146	Tamil Tiger gunmen shoot dead 146 Sinhalese civilians including Buddhist nuns and monks and injure 85 others as they were praying at Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, a sacred Buddhist shrine in Anuradhapura.
August 14, 1985	Peru	Accomarca massacre	0,000,04747–74	An army massacre of campesinos (including six children) in Accomarca, Ayacucho.
March 7, 1987	Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen, Fujian, China	Lieyu Massacre (Donggang Incident)	0,000,04719 or more	Republic of China Army executed all the unarmed Vietnamese refugees in a disoriented fishing boat seeking for political asylum at Donggang beach of Lieyu, Kinmen on March 7–8, 1987.
June 2, 1987	Sri Lanka	Aranthalawa Massacre	0,000,04732	Tamil Tigers stop a bus carrying Buddhist monks in Arantalawa and massacre all except of one monk. Killed in the massacre are Chief Priest Ven. Hegoda Indrasara and several novice monks (under the age of 18)
August 9, 1987	Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia	Hoddle Street massacre	0,000,077	The Hoddle Street massacre of 9 August 1987 was a killing spree which claimed the lives of 7 people and wounded 19 others at Hoddle Street in Clifton Hill in north-eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
August 19, 1987	Hungerford, England	Hungerford massacre	0,000,01616	A gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles and a handgun killed 16 people before committing suicide.
November 8, 1987	Enniskillen, Northern Ireland	Remembrance Day bombing (Poppy Day Massacre)	0,000,01212	Provisional IRA bombing at the town's cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
December 8, 1987	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	Queen Street massacre	0,000,088	The Queen Street massacre of 8 December 1987 was a killing spree which claimed the lives of 8 people and wounded 5 others in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
March 16, 1988	Belfast, Northern Ireland	Milltown massacre	0,000,0033	Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member Michael Stone kills three people and injures 60 others in a gun and grenade attack at the funeral of three IRA members being held in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast.
June 4, 1989	Beijing, China	Tiananmen Square Massacre	0,000,400400–3,000	The mourning of Hu Yaobang eventually evolved into a large-scale anti-corruption and democratic demonstration, which was ended in a violent suppression by state-controlled army. The actual number of deaths is still unknown. The massacre did not occur within Tiananmen Square, but in the surrounding areas of the square.
December 6, 1989	École Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada	École Polytechnique massacre	0,000,01414	Marc Lépine, a misogynist and anti-feminist, shot and killed 14 female students of the École Polytechnique de Montréal and wounded 14 other people before turning his gun on himself. The event led to stricter gun control laws and changes in police tactical response to shootings in Canada.
September 5, 1990	Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka	Eastern University massacre,	0,000,158158	Eastern University massacre is the massacre of 158 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka.
January 20, 1990	Srinagar, Kashmir	Gawkadal massacre,	0,000,050>50	Indian paramilitary troops of the Central Reserve Police Force opened fire on Kashmiri protesters
September 9, 1990	Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka	Sathurukondan massacre	0,000,184184	Sathurukondan massacre, also known as the 1990 Batticaloa massacre is the massacre of 184 minority Sri Lankan Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka.
November 13, 1990	Aramoana, New Zealand	Aramoana massacre	0,000,01313	Lone gunman David Malcolm Gray began shooting indiscriminately at people, killing 13 people before being killed by police himself, allegedly after a dispute with his next door neighbor. It remains New Zealand's deadliest criminal shooting.
October 16, 1991	Killeen, Texas, United States	Luby's shooting	0,000,02222	George Jo Hennard drove his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and shot and killed 22 people, wounded another 20 and then committed suicide by shooting himself.
November 3, 1991	Lima, Peru	Barrios Altos massacre	0,000,02222	Fifteen people were killed and four injured when Grupo Colina, the anticommunist paramilitary squad, opened fire on a neighborhood barbecue which they had mistaken for a gathering of Maoist Shining Path rebels.
November 18–21, 1991	Vukovar, Croatia	Vukovar massacre	0,000,264264	Members of the Serb militias, aided by the Yugoslav People's Army, killed Croat civilians and POWs.
February 26, 1992	Khojaly, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan	Khojaly Massacre	0,000,613613	Armenian armed forces, reportedly with help of the Russian 366th Motor Rifle Regiment, raided the town of Khojaly and massacred its Muslim civilian population. The death toll according to the Government of Azerbaijan was 613 civilians, of whom 106 were women and 83 were children.
June 17, 1992	Boipatong, South Africa	Boipatong massacre	0,000,04545	45 African National Congress (ANC) supporters were killed by members of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
July 18, 1992	Lima, Peru	La Cantuta massacre	0,000,04545	9 students and a professor on La Cantuta University were kidnapped and killed by Grupo Colina, an anticommunist paramilitary group.
September 7, 1992	Bisho, Ciskei/South Africa	Bisho massacre	0,000,02929	28 African National Congress (ANC) supporters and one soldier were shot dead by the Ciskei Defence Force during a protest march.
October 2, 1992	São Paulo, Brazil	Carandiru massacre	0,000,111111	The massacre was triggered by a prisoner revolt within the prison. The police made little if any effort to negotiate with the prisoners before the military police stormed the building, as the prison riot became more difficult for prison guards to control. The resulting casualties were of 111 prisoners killed.
January 8, 1993	Palatine, Illinois, United States	Brown's Chicken massacre	0,000,0077	Seven people were murdered at the Brown's Chicken and Pasta in Palatine
1992-1993	Autonomous republic of Abkhazia, Georgia	Ethnic cleansing of Georgians	0,000,11117,000-22,000	The ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia', also known as the "massacres of Georgians in Abkhazia" and "genocide of Georgians in Abkhazia" — refers to ethnic cleansing, massacres and forced mass expulsion of thousands of ethnic Georgians.
April 19, 1993	Waco, Texas, United States	Waco massacre	0,000,08282	Seventy-six members of the Branch Davidian church died after a 51 day siege in a fire started either accidentally or by church members after a Federal Bureau of Investigation tank attack upon the main building. Earlier, on February 28, 1993, six others died by gunfire after the original Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raid.
June – July 1993	Brazil	Yanomami or Haximu massacre	0,000,01616–73	Garimpeiros (illegal gold miners) killed Yanomami people.
July 2, 1993	Sivas, Turkey	Sivas massacre	0,000,03333	33 Alevi intellectuals were killed when a mob of radical Islamists set fire to the hotel where the group had assembled.
July 25, 1993	Cape Town, South Africa	St James Church massacre	0,000,01111	11 People were killed during a church service by Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) armed with assault rifles and grenades.
October 30, 1993	Greysteel, Northern Ireland	Greysteel massacre	0,000,0088	Ulster Defence Association (UDA) opened fire in a crowded bar using an AK-47 and automatic pistol. Eight civilians were killed and thirteen wounded.
February 25, 1994	West Bank	Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (Ibrahimi Mosque massacre)	0,000,02929	Israeli settler Baruch Goldstein opens fire with an assault rifle against Palestinian Muslims, killing 29 and wounding 150 at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.
1994 et seq.	Algeria	Algerian Village Massacres of the 1990s	0,010,00110,000	During the 1990s, many large-scale massacres of villagers in Algeria were perpetrated by groups attacking villages at night and cutting the throats of the inhabitants. The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) has avowed its responsibility for many of them. The massacres peaked in 1997 (with a smaller peak in 1994). According to a few reports former Algerian army officer, Habib Souaidia testified to his government's involvement in the massacres. The differing accounts are not yet reconciled. The academic consensus is that at least the majority of the massacres were carried out by Islamist radicals, however, the government notably failed to intervene in a number of these massacres.
March 28, 1994	Johannesburg, South Africa	Shell House massacre	0,000,01919	Security guards of the African National Congress (ANC) fired on 20,000 Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) marchers.
June 18, 1994	Loughinisland, Northern Ireland	Loughinisland massacre	0,000,0066	Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) opened fire in a crowded bar using assault rifles, killing six civilians and wounding five.
January 22, 1995	Israel	Beit Lid massacre	0,000,02222	First suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, killing 22 and wounding 69. Carried out by two bombers; the second waited until emergency crews arrived to assist the wounded and dying before detonating his bomb.
July 1995	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Srebrenica massacre	8,372	The Srebrenica massacre involved the genocidal killing, in July 1995, of 8,372 Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.
March 13, 1996	Scotland	Dunblane massacre	0,000,01717	A gunman opened fire in a primary school, killing sixteen children and one teacher before killing himself.
April 29, 1996	Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia	Port Arthur massacre	0,000,03535	The Port Arthur massacre of 28 April 1996 was a killing spree which claimed the lives of 35 people and wounded 21 others mainly at the historic tourist site Port Arthur in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. It later emerged that the gunman had severe intellectual disability. The massacre remains Australia's deadliest mass killing spree and remains one of the deadliest such incidents worldwide in recent times.
April 18, 1996	Lebanon	First Qana massacre	0,000,106106	Israeli artillery struck the Unifil Headquarters in Qana which was providing shelter to approximately two hundred Lebanese civilians. The Israeli military said the strike was in error and that they were not targeting the UN shelter. An amateur film was released showing that, contrary to Israeli assertions, an Israeli drone was spying on the UN compound just before it was shelling. The UN concluded that the attack was intentional. Amnesty International also concluded, "the IDF intentionally attacked the UN compound.
February 5, 1997	Ghulja, China	Ghulja Incident	0,000,0099	After two days of protests during which the protesters had marched shouting "God is great" and "independence for Xinjiang" the demonstrations were crushed by the People's Liberation Army. Official reports put the death toll at 9 while dissident reports estimated the number killed at more than 100.
November 17, 1997	Luxor, Egypt	Luxor massacre	0,000,06464	Massacre carried out by Egyptian Islamist militants, in which 64 people (including 59 visiting tourists) were killed using automatic weapons and machetes.
December 22, 1997	Acteal, Mexico	Acteal massacre	0,000,04545	Massacre carried out by paramilitary forces of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of indigenous townspeople, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the village of Acteal, municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
August 15, 1998	Omagh, Northern Ireland	Omagh bombing	0,000,02929	The Omagh bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army, a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement. Twenty-nine people died and approximately 220 people were injured.The attack was described by the BBC as "Northern Ireland's worst single terrorist atrocity".
April 20, 1999	Littleton, Colorado, United States	Columbine High School massacre	0,000,01515	Two teenagers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fire on their classmates on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher and injuring 21 others before committing suicide in the schools library.
July 27, 2000	West Bengal, India	Nanoor massacre	0,000,01111	Killing of 11 landless labourers allegedly by activists of Communist Party of India (Marxist), a political party in India, in Suchpur, near Nanoor and under Nanoor police station, in Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
January 17, 2002	Hadera, Israel	Bat Mitzvah massacre	0,000,0066	An attack carried out in January 2002 by al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in which a Palestinian gunman hurling grenades killed six and wounded 33 in a Bat Mitzvah celebration, a traditional Jewish celebration held for a 12-year-old girl.
March 27, 2002	Netanya, Israel	Passover massacre	0,000,03030	Killing of 30 guests at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel, sitting down to the traditional Passover Seder meal. Another 143 were injured. Hamas claimed responsibility.
February 28, 2002	Ahmedabad, India	Gulbarg Society massacre	0,000,06969	During the 2002 Gujarat riots, a mob attacked the Gulbarg Society, a lower middle-class Muslim neighbourhood in Chamanpura, Ahmedabad. Most of the houses were burnt, and at least 35 victims including a former Congress, Member of Parliament, Ehsan Jafri, were burnt alive, while 31 others went missing after the incident, later presumed dead, bringing the total of the dead to 69.
September 1, 2004	Beslan, Russian Federation	Beslan school hostage crisis	0,000,334334	Armed Chechen separatists took more than 1,200 people hostage at a school. 334 civilians were killed, including 186 school children, and hundreds wounded.
March 5, 2005	near Rehoboth, Namibia	Kareeboomvloer massacre	0,000,0088	Brothers Sylvester and Gavin Beukes murder the owners' couple of farm Kareeboomvloer and execute all witnesses, including two children. The motive was revenge for a previous theft charge laid by the farm owner.
May 13, 2005	Andijan, Uzbekistan	Andijan massacre	0,003,000187–1,500	Uzbek Interior Ministry and National Security Service troops fired into a crowd of protesters.
August 4, 2005	Shefa-Amr, Israel	Shefa-Amr massacre	0,000,0044	In protest of Ariel Sharon's government evacuation of Gaza colonies, Jewish IDF soldier Eden Natan-Zada travels to Israeli Arab city Shefa-Amr and unloads his gun against residents of a Druze neighborhood.
November 19, 2005	Haditha, Iraq	Haditha massacre	0,000,00624	US Marines slaughter 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians, among whom numerous children and the elderly. Though the unit's commander, Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich, claimed his forces came under attack just before the rampage, no weapons were found in the area.
March 25, 2006	Seattle, Washington, United States	Capitol Hill massacre	0,000,0066	28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff entered a rave afterparty in the southeast part of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and opened fire, killing six and wounding two, before committing suicide.
July 30, 2006	Lebanon	Qana airstrike	0,000,02828	Airstrike by the Israeli Air Forces on three-storey kill 28 civilians, including 16 children. The Israeli military alleged the compound was used by Hezbollah to store weapons but international observers and journalists denied military equipment was found on the rubble of the building from where the bodies of the victims, civilians in their pajamas were taken.
April 16, 2007	Blacksburg, Virginia, United States	Virginia Tech massacre	0,000,03233	Gunman Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people and wounded many others before committing suicide. The massacre is the deadliest peacetime shooting incident by a single gunman in United States history, on or off a school campus.
April 30, 2009	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	2009 attack on the Dutch Royal Family	0,000,0068	38-year-old Karst Tates drove his car at high speed into a parade including members of the Dutch Royal Family, killing 7 people lining the street watching the parade, as well as himself.
September 28, 2009	Conakry, Guinea	28 September massacre	0,000,157157	Guinean uniformed security forces opened fire on a political rally trapped in the 28 September Stadium.
November 5, 2009	Ft. Hood, Texas, United States	Fort Hood shooting	0,000,01313	Gunman Malik Nadal Hasan, a Major in the U.S. Army, killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded at least 30 on the base at Ft. Hood. Initial reports indicate Hassan was upset at being deployed to Iraq.
November 23, 2009	Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Philippines	Maguindanao massacre	0,000,05757	A group of 100 armed men, alleged to include police and private militia led by Andal Ampatuan, Jr., stopped a convoy of five cars transporting Genalyn Tiamzon-Mangudadatu, the wife of Esmael Mangudadatu, who is running for provincial governor in the 2010 Philippine elections. She was en route to the town of Shariff Aguak to file a certificate of candidacy for her husband, accompanied by his sisters, other supporters, and members of the press. The attackers kidnapped and later killed all members of the Mangudadatu group; reports state that women in the group were raped before being killed. Five other people not part of the group, in a car behind the convoy, were also kidnapped and killed.
January 8, 2011	Tucson, Arizona, United States	2011 Tucson shooting	0,000,0066	One man, Jared Lee Loughner, attacked a group of people outside a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. His intent was to kill U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords only, but he ended up killing 6 and wounding 19 – though grievously wounded (and despite initial reports to the contrary), Giffords herself survived. Those killed in the incident included United States District Court for the District of Arizona Chief Judge John Roll and one of Gifford's staffers.
April 9, 2011	Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands	Alphen aan den Rijn shopping mall shooting	0,000,0067	24-year-old Tristan van der Vlis entered a shopping mall and opened fire, killing six and wounding 17, before committing suicide.
July 22, 2011	Utøya, Buskerud, Norway	2011 Utøya shooting	0,000,06969	One man, Anders Behring Breivik, went to the island of Utøya on July 22, 2011, right after the devastating bomb in Oslo. Wearing a fake police uniform, he shot and killed 69 youths at the annual labour youth party, and injured several more. It is still unknown how long the massacre lasted. According to police logs, it took an hour from the first calls until the response team arrested him. The defenseless people had nowhere to run. Many tried to swim away from the island to shore, some made it, and some did not.
October 5, 2011	Chiang Khong, Chiang Rai, Thailand	Mekong River massacre	0,000,01313	Two Chinese cargo ships were attacked on a stretch of the Mekong River in the Golden Triangle area. All 13 crew members were killed and dumped in the river. It is the deadliest assault on Chinese nationals abroad in modern times.
March 11, 2012	Kandahar, Afghanistan	Kandahar massacre	0,000,01617	17 Afghan civilians were killed by U.S. Army Soldier Robert Bales. Some witnesses have indicated more than one person was involved.
May 25, 2012	Houla, Syria	Houla massacre	0,000,108108	Approximately 108 people were killed with knives in the Syrian town of Houla. Approximately 25 men, 49 children and 34 women were among the victims.
December 14, 2012	Newtown, Connecticut, United States	Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting	0,000,02828	On December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members.
December 16, 2014	Peshawar, Pakistan	Army Public School	141	Seven gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School killing more than 150 people, including 134 schoolchildren, ranging between eight and eighteen years of age.
April 2, 2015	Garissa, Kenya	Garissa University College attack	147	On 2 April 2015, Al-Shabaab gunmen killed 147 people and injured 79 or more in the Garissa University College in Garissa, Kenya.
June 17, 2015	Charleston, South Carolina, United States	Charleston Church Shooting	,0,000,0289	On June 17, 2015, 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot 10 people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, with 9 fatally dead with 1 injured.
July 23, 2015	Lafayette, Louisiana, United States	2015 Lafayette shooting	,0,000,0283	On July 23, 2015, a shooting occurred at the Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. John Russell Houser, age 59, opened fire during a showing of the film Trainwreck, killing two people and injuring nine others before he committed suicide.

See also

• List of events named pogrom
• List of genocides
• List of battles and other violent events by death toll
• List of mass car bombings
• List of massacres at sea
• List of murderers by number of victims
• List of postal killings
• List of rampage killers
• List of school-related attacks
• Mass murder
• School shooting
• Spree killer
• List of Algerian massacres of the 1990s
• List of massacres in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of massacres in India
• List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
• List of massacres in the Kosovo War
• List of massacres in Sri Lanka
• Category:Lists of massacres by country
• Category:World War I massacres
• Category:World War II massacres