Massacres

A massacre is a killing, typically of multiple victims, considered morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims. The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage".There is no objective definition of what constitutes a "massacre". Various international organisations have proposed a formal definition of the term crimes against humanity, which would however include incidents of persecution or abuse that do not result in deaths. Conversely, a "massacre" is not necessarily a "crime against humanity". Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial …

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PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 19 April 2024 English

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review Commentaire and Knight of the Legion of Honor. [...] Under the direct supervision of Professor Abdelaziz Aitali, the …

Damascas, this time with real arms. Large-scale massacres that might have been avoided were perpetrated


ICG: International Crisis Group · 18 April 2024 English

16 “Memorandum Order 32: Reinforcing the Guidelines for the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in the Implementation of Measures to Suppress and Prevent Lawless Violence”, …

benefitted from the repression of the Marcos years. Massacres, corruption and everyday violence drove more people


PCNS: Policy Center for the New South · 18 April 2024

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the French Review Commentaire and Knight of the Legion of Honor. [...] Under the direct supervision of Professor Abdelaziz Aitali, the …

Damascas, this time with real arms. Large-scale massacres that might have been avoided were perpetrated


Amnesty International · 12 April 2024 English

African and global human rights bodies must urgently investigate killings of civilians by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in Merawi town, Amhara region, after fighting with Fano militias on …

investigate criminals instead of resorting to massacres. The law must guide all actions. Why do they massacre investigate criminals instead of resorting to massacres. The law must guide all actions. Why do they massacre


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 12 April 2024 French

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des manifestations d'octobre 2022, a parlé de « massacres annonce-une-traque_a123367.html. ciblés de populations


Amnesty International · 11 April 2024 English

Amnesty International submits the following information to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ahead of the 88th session and the review of Brazil’s 8-9th combined periodic …

marked by “intense violence, summary executions, massacres, hundreds of murders and a number of disappearances nity-marks-15-years-since-one-of-the-biggest-massacres- in-sao-paulo/ 52 The massacre of Curió, in the


AIR Center: Center of Analysis of International Relations · 8 April 2024 English

The President emphasized the significant contributions One of the central themes of the forum was the of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC) aftermath of COP28 and the preparations for …

Caspian Sea other regions fell victim to brutal massacres, while and transmission lines to Europe under The atrocities committed against Azerbaijanis massacres and the destruction of settlements and extend fostering a culture of reconciliation and tolerance. massacres. At the current post-conflict juncture, there


ActionAid International · 8 April 2024 English

These services and facilities, together with the imposition of severe restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid, has The displacement of Palestinians from their homes and include the Convention Relating …

crisis. The international of Israel in 1948, massacres and targeted killings were and practices in the


HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies · 4 April 2024 English

In the same year, the Horn of Africa after China, the Türkiye pumped in significant humanitarian aid to European Union, the United States, Somalia in terms of relief food, healthcare …

Among the violations it investigated included massacres, Tanzanian President) and Graca Machel (the former


Yoorrook Justice Commission · 1 April 2024 English

20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …

evidence yesterday from Dr Bill Pascoe that these massacres peaked in the 1840s, and he said these were some was Dr Pascoe's evidence yesterday that those massacres that they're aware of peaked in Victoria in the most of the people that was left after all the massacres was moved from one 25 mission to another. Fram documentary on the Hentys' involvement in the massacres down in the Western District. And the young lass a book about his family. Pioneers. About the massacres they were involved in. Yeah. And the Frontier


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