Massacre

For other uses, see Massacre (disambiguation).

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Le Massacre de Scio ("The Chios massacre") a painting (1824) by Eugène Delacroix depicting the massacre of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822.

A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.[1] It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person.

The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage".[2][3] Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial killing.

  1. ^ "Definition of a Massacre". Cambridge Dictionary.
  2. ^ "the definition of massacre". Dictionary.com. Retrieved November 24, 2017.
  3. ^ Gallant, Thomas W. (2001). "Levene (Mark) and Roberts (Penny), (Eds.), The Massacre in History". Crime, History & Societies. 5 (1): 146–148. doi:10.4000/chs.800. ISBN 1-57181934-7. ISSN 1422-0857. Retrieved September 1, 2023.