Massacres

Thousands were killed and thousands of others wounded. Tiananmen Square, meaning “Gate of Heavenly Peace”

A long-standing hatred of Tutsis by the Hutus exploded in extreme violence, killing more than

Srebrenica was placed under UN protection but the number of soldiers guarding the city was

In violation of international agreements that Japan had signed Japanese soldiers assaulted China. Nanking, the

Despite the 9/11 catastrophe, the USA’s much-hyped intelligence community yet again failed to head off

The massacre at the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was

September 1 was the first, day of school in the sleepy North Ossetian town of

As the millennium loomed, Christianity in Africa blossomed to equal or surpass the number of

The Columbine massacre was one of the deadliest school shootings in US history, its circumstances

In March 1997 in a house in California police found 39 bodies lying neatly in

There were 29 small children in the gymnasium of Dunblane Primary School when Thomas Hamilton

The euphoria of independence didn’t last long in most Balkan countries. As the former Yugoslavia

Later, when the authorities pieced it together, it became obvious that the three mass killings

In 1990, when he took control of the Branch Davidians religious cult, David Koresh believed

Luby’s Cafeteria was a popular restaurant on US Highway 190 at Killeen, Texas, right next

The uneasy relationship between Tamils and Sinhala has persisted for centuries, with cyclical exchanges of

In America, it is called a ‘spree killing’. In the UK, nothing like it had

The history of the Middle East’s only democracy is soaked in the blood of Arabs