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- Dictionarymassacre/ˈmasəkə/
noun
- 1. an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people: "the attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre" Similar
verb
- 1. deliberately and brutally kill (many people): "thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers" Similar
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Peterloo Massacre, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819.
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2 days ago · Reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life (sometimes described as an "abandoned and malignant heart"), or. Intent to commit a dangerous felony (the "felony murder" doctrine). Under state of mind (i), intent to kill, the deadly weapon rule applies.
1 day ago · The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the gr...
2 days ago · Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. [ 1] The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel ). [ 2]
4 days ago · Rosewood massacre of 1923, an incident of racial violence that lasted several days in January 1923 in the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. Although some have estimated as many as 200 people were killed, an official study placed the death toll at eight.
4 days ago · The Vietnam War (1954–75) was a conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It was part of a larger regional conflict as well as a manifestation of the Cold War.
18 hours ago · “The definition of a massacre is a deliberate brutal barbaric attack on a large group of people. Typically a massacre provokes or prompts a widespread condemnation and action,” he said.
