Massacres

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

On November 18 1978 the news from Guyana that 914 people had been found dead

If ever the phrase ‘cycle of sectarian violence’ had deadly meaning it was during Northern

In the late 1960s Northern Ireland was torn by factional violence between Catholic Nationalists and

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

In Mexico the coalition PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) government had begun to confront the problems

America was bogged down in its anti-communist war against North Vietnam when in January 1968

Apartheid in South Africa became institutionalized in the 1940s and by 1960, under the government

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

In 1939 Poland was a rabbit torn apart by wolves as Nazi Germany invaded from