Hungerford – 1987

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In America, it is called a ‘spree killing’. In the UK, nothing like it had ever happened before, so it…

Sabra and Shatila – 1982

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The history of the Middle East’s only democracy is soaked in the blood of Arabs who tried to destroy the…

The Jonestown Massacre – 1978

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On November 18 1978 the news from Guyana that 914 people had been found dead in an apparent suicide pact…

Kingsmill Mass Murder – 1976

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If ever the phrase ‘cycle of sectarian violence’ had deadly meaning it was during Northern Ireland’s ‘Troubles’, especially in the…

Bloody Sunday – 1972

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In the late 1960s Northern Ireland was torn by factional violence between Catholic Nationalists and protestant Unionists. After two rioters…

Kent State Shooting – 1970

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In May 1970, soldiers of the Ohio National Guard fired 67 live rounds at a group of unarmed students at…

Tlatelolco Massacre – 1968

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In Mexico the coalition PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) government had begun to confront the problems of the poor but when…

My Lai Massacre – 1968

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America was bogged down in its anti-communist war against North Vietnam when in January 1968 Viet Cong guerrillas joined the…

The Sharpeville Massacre – 1960

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Apartheid in South Africa became institutionalized in the 1940s and by 1960, under the government of the ultra-right National Party…

228 Incident – 1947

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The Republic of China (ROC) sounds impressive, but now consists only of Taiwan (formerly the island of Formosa) off the…