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| 1 AD | Massacre of the Innocents | 8-30 | Bethlehem, Judea | (according to the Gospel of Matthew)
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| 9 | Teutoburg Massacre | ~30,000 | Teutoburg Forest, Germany | Roman60 and 400 with major cities. During this time only Dacia and Mesopotamia were added to the Empire but were lost before 300. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman state in the centuries following its reorganization under t legions under VarusPublius Quinctilius Varus ca. 46 BC- 9 AD) was a Roman politician and general under Augustus Caesar, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (in ambushed by Germanic tribeIntroduction The term Germanic peoples or Germanic tribes applies to the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. The Germanic tribes spoke mutually intelligible dialects and shared a common mythology (see Norse Mythology) and story telling as testified by fors
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| 1096Events Bernhard becomes Bishop of Brandenburg First documented teaching at the University of Oxford Beginning of the People's Crusade and the First Crusade Vital I Michele is Doge of Venice Peter I, King of Aragon, conquers Huesca Phayao, now a province o | Part of the First CrusadeThe First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II at Clermont, France with the objective of regaining control of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims, and also of giving military assistance to the Byzantine Empire against the Seljuk Turks. | Thousands | Along the RhineAt 1,320 km (820 miles), the Rhine River ( German Rhein French Rhin Dutch Rijn is one of the longest rivers in Europe. Its name is derived from the Celtic word renos (meaning "raging flow"). Together with the Danube it formed most of the northern frontier | "People's Crusade" prior to the First Crusade killed thousands of Jews along the Rhine; see Emich of LeiningenCount Emich of Leiningen (also spelled Leningen (d. 1117) was a count in the Rhineland in the late 11th century. The original idea for the First Crusade that had been preached by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 had already turned into a m
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| March 16March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining. Events 1190 Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York, England. 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. 1621 Samoset, a Mohegan,, 1190 | Massacre at Clifford's Tower | ~150 | York, England | Mob attacks Jewish residents; many commit suicide
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| 1282 | Sicilian Vespers | ? | Italy |
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| 1284 | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | 130 | Hamelin | Children supposedly lured away and killed. Legend, not clear what really happened.
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| August 24, 1572 | St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | 70,000 | France | A wave of Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots
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| May 10, 1631 | Massacre of Magdeburg | 20,000 | Germany |
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| 1648- 1649 | ? | 100,000 | | Jews and Poles killed by Cossacks under Bohdan Chmielnicki
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| 1689 | Massacre of Palatinate | ? | Germany |
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| February 13, 1692 | Massacre of Glencoe | 78 | Scotland |
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| 1768 | Koliwszczyzna | ? | | massacre of Poles and Jews in Human, Ukraine
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| March 5, 1770 | Boston Massacre | 5 | British colony, now US state of Massachusetts |
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| 1778 | Cherry Valley Massacre | eastern New York | | during the American Revolution
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| 1794 | ? | ? | Praga, Poland | Raze of Praga - Poland
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| January, 1813 | River Raisin massacre | 30-60 | Monroe, Michigan | prisoners scalped during the War of 1812
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| August 16, 1819 | Peterloo massacre | 11 | United Kingdom |
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| 1836 | Goliad massacre | 342 | Goliad, Texas | Mexican army executes American prisoners of war
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| November 29, 1847 | Whitman massacre | ? | near Walla Walla, Washington | Medical mission established by Marcus Whitman attacked by the Cayuse
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| 1848 | Rabacja | ? | Galicia | massacre of Polish nobles by peasants
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| October 26, 1853 | Gunnison Massacre | ? | Utah territory | Exploration party of John Gunnison killed by Pahvant Utes
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| May 24– 25, 1856 | Pottawatomie Massacre | 5 | Franklin County, Kansas | Radical abolitionist John Brown murders pro- slavery men with swords in " Bleeding Kansas"
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| September 11, 1857 | Mountain Meadows Massacre | 120 | Utah, United States |
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| November 29, 1864 | Sand Creek Massacre | ~150 | Colorado Territory | United States cavalry troops kill Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples in an undefended Native American village.
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| April 13, 1873 | Colfax Massacre | 100 | Colfax, Louisiana |
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| June 1, 1873 | Cypress Hills Massacre | 16-23 | Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, Canada | 16-22 Nakoda (Assiniboine) killed by American wolfers. 1 American was killed. |
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| May 4, 1886 | Haymarket Riot | 12 | Chicago | Bomb tossed amongst police and striking workers
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| December 29, 1890 | Wounded Knee Massacre | 153-300 | Wounded Knee, South Dakota | Last confrontation of US troops and the Great Sioux Nation
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| 1894 | First Armenian Massacre | ? | Ottoman Empire |
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| 1903 | Kishinev pogrom | ? | ( Chisinau) - Moldova |
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| April 20, 1914 | Ludlow Massacre | 20 | Ludlow, Colorado | Suppression of a strike by twelve thousand Colorado coal miners.
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| 1915 | Second Armenian Massacre | 0.2–1.8 million | Anatolia | Deportation of ethnic Armenians by the Young Turks.
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| July 17, 1918 | Romanov massacre | ~10 | Yekaterinburg, Russia | Bolshevik execution of Nicholas II and the Russian royal household
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| April 13, 1919 | Amritsar Massacre | 379 | India |
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| September 1– 8, 1923 | Kanto massacre | ~4,000–10,000 | Kanto region, Japan | Korean and Okinawan immigrants blamed for looting and arson
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| 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
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| February 14, 1929 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre | 7 | Chicago | Bugs Moran's gang is murdered by Al Capone's men
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| 1929 | Hebron massacre | ? | Palestine |
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| 1937 | Nanjing Massacre | 200,000- 300,000 | China | by Imperial Japanese Soldiers, also called Rape of Nanking
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| 1938 | Kristallnacht | 36-200 | Germany | also called Pogromnacht
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| 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.
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| 1939 | Polish victims of Nazi initial occupation of Poland | all of Poland | Poland | Imprisonment and execution of Polish citizens and soldiers immediately after German invasion.
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| December 27, 1939 | Wawer | 107 | Poland | 120 men caught in a lapanka shot as a reprisal for death of two German soldiers, 13 of them survived the massacre under the pile of bodies.
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| December 1939 - July 1940 | Palmiry | ~2000 | Poland | Gestapo murder systematically members of Polish intelligentsia, sportsmen, politicians and common people.
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| 1940 | Katyn Massacre | 25,700 | Soviet Union | massacre of Polish Intelligentsia, POW reserve officers
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| July 1941 | Massacre of Lwów professors | 45 | Lwów, Poland | Part of the AB Action
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| 1941 | Massacre in Jedwabne | 380-1600 | Poland |
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| September 29- 30, 1941 | Babi Yar massacre | 33,771 | Ukraine |
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| July 1941- August 1944 | Ponary | ~100,000 | Lithuania |
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| May 29, 1942 | Lidice Massacre | 250 | Czechoslovakia | Massacre of an entire village as a reprisal for the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague
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| 1943 | Massacres of Poles in Volhynia | ~100,000 | Ukraine |
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| July 14, 1943 | Biscari Massacre | 73 | Sicily | US Troops kill German and Italian POWs.
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| 1944 | Massacre in Koniuchy | ~300 | Poland |
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| June 10, 1944 | Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre | 642 | France |
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| August 1944 | Wola Massacre | up to 50,000 | Warsaw | German troops slaughter most of civilians in the borough of Wola during the early stage of the Warsaw Uprising
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| December 17, 1944 | Malmédy massacre | 80 | Belgium | Massacre of American POWs
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| May 8, 1945 | Setif Massacre | 150 pied-noirs
1,500-45,000 Algerians | Algeria |
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| August 6, 1945 | Hiroshima | 140,000 | Japan |
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| August 9, 1945 | Nagasaki | 100,000 | Japan |
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| 1948 | Hadassah medical convoy massacre | ~77 | Palestine |
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| 1948 | Deir Yassin massacre | 107 | Palestine |
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| 1948 | Arab al-Mawasi massacre | 14 | Palestine |
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| April 3 1948 | Jeju_Massacre | 30,000 | Korea |
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| July 26- 29, 1950 | Nogun-ri massacre | 121-? | Korea |
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| 1953 | Qibya massacre | ~50 | West Bank |
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| 1956 | Kafr Qasim massacre | 49 | Israel |
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| March 21, 1960 | Sharpeville Massacre | 69 killed, 180+ injured | South Africa | police opened fire on a crowd of black protesters
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| October 17, 1961 | Paris Massacre of 1961 | 32-200[1] | Paris, France | Killing of Algerian demonstrators
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| 1968 | Tlatelolco massacre | 200-300 | Mexico | Mexican soldiers open fire on student demonstrators.
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| 1968 | My Lai massacre | 347-504 | Vietnam |
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| February 8, 1968 | Orangeburg Massacre | ? | South Carolina State University, USA |
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| January, 1969 | Massacre at Hue | ~2500 | Hue, Vietnam |
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| May 4, 1970 | Kent State massacre | 4 | Kent State University, Ohio, USA |
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| September 5, 1972 | Munich Massacre | 12 | Munich, Germany | Palestinian terrorists kidnap and kill Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games
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| November 18, 1978 | Jonestown massacre | 5+913 | Jonestown, Guyana | People's Temple cult attacks Rep. Leo Ryan and delegation; after 5 killed in shootout, Jim Jones leads mass suicide
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| November 3, 1979 | Greensboro massacre | 5 | Greensboro, North Carolina | Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an anti-Klan demonstration.
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| May 1980 | Gwangju Massacre | 191-250-2000 | Gwangju, South Korea | Jeon-nam University
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| December 11, 1981 | El Mozote massacre | ~900 | El Salvador |
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| February 2, 1982 | Hama Massacre | ~20,000 | Syria |
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| September, 1982 | Sabra and Shatila massacre | 300-3,000 | Beirut, Lebanon |
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| August 8, 1987 | Hoddle_Street_massacre | 7 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| August 19, 1987 | Hungerford massacre | 17 | Hungerford, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom |
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| December 8, 1987 | Queen_Street_massacre | 8 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| December 6, 1989 | École Polytechnique Massacre | 15 | University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | also called Montreal Massacre
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| 1989 | Tiananmen Massacre | up to 2,600 | Beijing, China |
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| November 13, 1990 | Aramoana Massacre | 13 | Aramoana , New Zealand |
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| November 12, 1991 | Dili Massacre | 271 | Dili, East Timor | Timorese protesting Indonesian rule are killed by Indonesian soldiers.
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| July 11, 1995 | Srebrenica Massacre | ~8000 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Considered the largest massacre in Europe since World War II
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| 1994 | Rwandan Massacre | 800,000 | Rwanda | Hutus massacre Tutsis for 3 months
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| March 13, 1996 | Dunblane massacre | 18 | Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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| April 18, 1996 | Qana Massacre | 102 | Qana , South of Lebanon |
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| April 29, 1996 | Port Arthur massacre | 35 | Tasmania, Australia |
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| 1997 | Sanaa massacre | 8 | Yemen |
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| August 28, 1997 | Sidi Rais massacre | ~200 | Sidi Rais , Algeria |
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| September 22, 1997 | Bentalha massacre | >200 | Bentalha , Algeria |
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| December 22, 1997 | Acteal massacre | 45 | Acteal , Mexico | Allegedly government-linked paramilitaries attack a prayer meeting professing support for the goals of EZLN rebels
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| January 10, 1998 | Sidi Hamed massacre | 103 | Sidi Hamed , Algeria |
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| March 24, 1998 | Jonesboro massacre | 5 | Arkansas, United States |
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| December 9, 1998 | Tadjena massacre | 42 | Algeria |
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| April 20, 1999 | Columbine High School massacre | 15 | Littleton, Colorado, United States |
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| January 9– 11, 2001 | Yakaolang massacre | ~300 | Yakaolang, Afghanistan | Taliban executes civilian members of the Shia Sadat and Hazara clans
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| June 1, 2001 | Nepalese royal family massacre | 8 | Katmandu, Nepal | Prince Dipendra shoots his immediate family and himself at a royal dinner
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| June 8, 2001 | Osaka School Massacre | 8 | Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, Japan |
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| September 11, 2001 | September 11, 2001 attacks | ~3,000 | New York, Washington DC, Pennsylvania ( United States) | Al-Qaida hijacks 4 U.S. commercial airliners for use in a suicide bombing attack on major American targets. Two planes struck the World Trade Center towers in New York, causing the majority of the deaths; one plane hit the Pentagon; one plane was downed in a Pennsylvania field by its passengers (all of whom were killed.)
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| 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.
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| February 2002 | 2002 Gujarat violence | ~800-2000 | Gujarat state, India | Sectarian violence following a train fire in Godhra
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| April 26, 2002 | Erfurt massacre | 17 | Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany |
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| March 28, 2002 | Passover massacre | 30 | Netanya, Israel |
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| October 4, 2003 | Maxim restaurant massacre | 21 | Haifa, Israel |
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| March 2, 2004 | Ashoura Massacre | ~170 | Karbala, Baghdad, ( Iraq) |
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| May 2, 2004 | Yelwa massacre | ~630 | Nigeria |
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| May 19, 2004 | Mukaradeeb | 42 | Iraq | Bombing of a wedding party; described by US forces as a mistake provoked by its celebratory gunfire
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| September 3, 2004 | Beslan school hostage crisis | 331 | Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia |
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