Thousands were killed and thousands of others wounded. Tiananmen Square, meaning “Gate of Heavenly Peace” refers to a cluster of ancient buildings plus a massive square in the heart of Beijing. The former is a museum dealing with events...
Massacres Archive
Rwanda Genocide – April 6, 1994
A long-standing hatred of Tutsis by the Hutus exploded in extreme violence, killing more than half of the Tutsis. When a radical group took power on April 6, 1994, the Hutu controlled government of Rwanda launched an extermination campaign...
Srebrenica Genocide – Bosnia-Herzegovina – July 15, 1995
Srebrenica was placed under UN protection but the number of soldiers guarding the city was small and the Serbian Army easily captured it and arrested the 7,500 Muslim men. During the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s, the community...
Nanking Massacre – December 13, 1937
In violation of international agreements that Japan had signed Japanese soldiers assaulted China. Nanking, the capital of China at that time, was the scene of their greatest and most brutal actions. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese Army, as...
Fort Hood – 2009
Despite the 9/11 catastrophe, the USA’s much-hyped intelligence community yet again failed to head off a preventable disaster. Major Nisal Malik Hassan’s attempts to contact al-Qaeda and radical Muslim clerics were closely monitored, but the decision was taken to...
Virginia Tech Massacre – 2007
The massacre at the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was the deadliest peacetime shooting by an individual in US history. What Seung-Hui Cho demanded was a blood sacrifice from the world. His choice of...