Massacres attending the partition of India and the establishment of the State of Israel are simply recent grim evidences of the hostility such divisions can engender.

With disagreements over such items as the necessity of the September Massacres, the Convention was a scene of large-scale political infighting between different factions.

* Septembriseurs — The Mountain and others ( such as Georges Danton ) who were on the rise in the period of the September Massacres

In Communist Poland, all Kresy-related topics, such as Polish heritage in the East, or Massacres of Poles in Volhynia were banned for propaganda reasons, because these lands belonged to the Soviet Union.

Aivazovsky was deeply affected by the Hamidian massacres of Armenians in Asia Minor in 1895, painting a number of works on the subject such as " The Expulsion of the Turkish Ship ," and " The Armenian Massacres at Trevizond.

" Although the massacres were aimed mainly at the Armenians, they turned into indiscriminate anti-Christian pogroms in some cases such as in the Massacres of Diyarbakir.

Massacres of each other's supporters include the Shell House massacre and the Boipatong massacre.

* Massacres during the Wars of Religion: The St. Bartholomew ’ s Day massacre: a foundational event

As the Revolution developed, the Girondists often found themselves opposing its results ; the overthrow of the monarchy on 10 August 1792 and the September Massacres of 1792 occurred while they still nominally controlled the government, but the Girondists tried to distance themselves from the results of the September massacre.

In Egypt, 21 Coptic Christians were killed by a Muslim mob in the Kosheh Massacres in 2000, and 11 were killed in the Nag Hammadi massacre by Muslim gunmen.

Many Assyrians were subjected to Kurdish brigandage and even outright massacre and forced conversion to Islam, as was the case of the Assyrians of Hakkari during the massacres of Badr Khan in the 1840s and the Massacres of Diyarbakir during the 1895-96 Hamidian Massacres.

* " A Narrative of the Late Massacres ...", Benjamin Franklin's account of the massacre and criticism of the Paxton Boys

Though the painting was quickly purchased by the State, Delacroix was disappointed when it was sent to the Lille Musée des Beaux-Arts ; he had intended for it to hang at the Luxembourg, where it would have joined The Barque of Dante and Scenes from the Massacres of Chios.

On 10 August ( the effective fall of the Monarchy ), Louvet became editor of the Journal des Débats, and, both as a journalist and deputy in the National Convention, made himself conspicuous by his attacks on Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat and the other Montagnards, whom he later claimed he would have succeeded in bringing to justice in after the September Massacres were it not for the poor support he received from the Girondist leaders.

Benjamin Franklin's " Narrative of the Late Massacres " concluded with noting that the Conestoga would have been safe among any other people on earth, no matter how primitive, except "' white savages ' from Peckstang and Donegall!

It is the tenth anniversary of the Valentine Massacres and the murders have begun once more.

He was accused later of having taken part in the September Massacres, but proved that at that time he had been sent by the provisional executive council to Normandy to oversee a requisition of 60, 000 men.

** Massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place, with more than 450 killed in a few days.

Massacres of Albanians took place throughout Kosovo and Northern Macedonia, just as massacres took place of ethnic groups not belonging to the " liberating " armies elsewhere in the conflict areas

Massacres against the Christian population took place in Chania and Rethimno.

Massacres of the Christian population took place in Chania and Rethimno.

During 1943 – 1944 ethnic cleansing operations took place in Ukraine ( commonly known as the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ) which brought about an estimated 100, 000 deaths and an exodus of ethnic Poles from this territory.

Massacres of loyalist prisoners took place at the Vinegar Hill camp and in Wexford.

His involvement in the September Massacres secured his place as a soldier in the Parisian National Guard, gradually rising up to the rank of captain.

During the French Revolution, the red flag was adopted by the Jacobin Club, whose members controlled the insurrectionary Paris Commune during the assault on the Tuileries, the September Massacres, and throughout the Reign of Terror.

In An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres ( a book arguing that the GIA had become a tool of the state ) two survivors are quoted as reporting that the killers were dressed like " Afghans ", with turbans, covered faces, beards ( some false ), and uniforms, that the attackers were also cursing God throughout, and that among them were a few women, wearing hijab over a uniform.

Category: Massacres in Ukraine

The Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (, literally: Volhynian slaughter ;-Volyn tragedy ) were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( UPA ) North in the Nazi-occupied regions of Volhynia ( Reichskommissariat Ukraine ) and UPA-South in Eastern Galicia ( General Government ) beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of 1944.

Category: Massacres in Ukraine

The number of Poles in Ukraine gradually increased over the centuries, but after World War II it drastically decreased as a result of Soviet mass deportation of the Poles in Ukraine to Siberia and other eastern regions of the USSR as well as a campaign of ethnic cleansing, carried out in the early 1940s by Ukrainian nationalists in western part of the country ( see: Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ).

* 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.

At Versailles, they learned of the September Massacres in Paris.

With the Prussian army entering France, more doubts were raised against the aristocracy, and these tensions climaxed during the September Massacres.

Possibly the two most significant factors in the quarrel and consequential split between the Montagnards and the Girondins include the September Massacres and the trial of Louis XVI, both in 1792.

The second key factor in the split between the Montagnards and the Girondins was the September Massacres of 1792.

* Sandag, Shagdariin ; Kendall, Harry H .; Wakeman, Frederic E. Poisoned Arrows: The Stalin-Choibalsan Mongolian Massacres, 1921 – 1941.

* 1943 – Massacres of Poles in Volhynia.

After the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres of Huguenots in France in 1572, Pope Gregory celebrated a Te Deum mass.

* 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

As the story goes, back in the late 18th century when General John Sullivan was avenging the Wyoming and Cherry-Valley Massacres, he chased a group of renegade Native Americans, up from present day Athens, Pennsylvania ( then known as Tioga Point ) through the valley, to a point somewhere along the cliffs.

* September 2 – During what becomes known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than 200 priests.

In 1896, responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres, Barton sailed to Constantinople and after long negotiations with Abdul Hamid II, opened the first American International Red Cross headquarters in the heart of Turkey.

Transferred to the La Force prison, the princesse de Lamballe was one of the victims of the September Massacres, killed on 3 September.

The Polish-Ukrainian animosity grew into Massacres of Poles in Volhynia | ethnic massacres of 1943-44 in which up to 100, 000 Poles died.

This became known as the September Massacres.

It decreased in popularity in Gothic art, but revived in the larger works of the Renaissance, when artists took inspiration for their " Massacres " from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs to the extent that they showed the figures heroically nude.

September Massacres of 1792, in which Parisian mobs killed hundreds of royalist prisoners.

* Selected Death Tolls for Wars, Massacres and Atrocities Before the 20th Century.

Massacres, ethnic cleansing, and harassment has increased since the U. S .- led invasion in 2003.