The Solar Temple Killings – 1994

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Later, when the authorities pieced it together, it became obvious that the three mass killings were planned as one. The…

Waco Siege – 1993

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In 1990, when he took control of the Branch Davidians religious cult, David Koresh believed he was an angel with…

National Bosses Day at Luby’s – 1991

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Luby’s Cafeteria was a popular restaurant on US Highway 190 at Killeen, Texas, right next to America’s biggest military base,…

Batticaloa – 1990

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The uneasy relationship between Tamils and Sinhala has persisted for centuries, with cyclical exchanges of political power effected by means…

Tiananmen Square – 1989

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Truthfully, what the world remembers best about Tiananmen Square in 1989 is one of the 20th century’s defining images: ‘Tankman’.…

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…