Accusations of mass killings by a government are relatively common.

Freedom House states that, " North Korea does not have an independent judiciary and does not acknowledge individual rights ... reports of arbitrary detentions, ' disappearances ,' and extrajudicial killings are common ; torture is widespread and severe "

In Colombian history and culture, the killings are known as La Violencia ( The Violence, 1948 – 58 ); most of the people killed were peasants and laborers in rural Colombia.

Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24, 000 Jews were executed.

While he justifies the murders by claiming they are a Masonic warning to an apparent Illuminati threat to the throne, the killings are, in Gull's mind, part of an elaborate mystical ritual to ensure male societal dominance over women ( see " Interpretations " below ).

Retaliatory killings do occur ; but typically a consensus establishes which party was in the right, and there are no long-standing feuds.

We are against all those killings, but we support his ideology.

In the early 21st century Uganda has experienced a revival of child sacrifice and in spite of government attempts to downplay the issue an investigation by the BBC into human sacrifice in Uganda found that ritual killings of children are more common than Ugandan authorities admit.

They are also differentiated from other kinds of school violence, such as the mass killings of the Bath School disaster ( which involved a homemade bomb rather than shooting ), the Cologne school massacre ( which involved a flamethrower ); or terror attacks involving multiple kinds of weapons, such as the Ma ' alot massacre or the Beslan school hostage crisis.

Inhabiting an ancient theater, Armand and his vampire coven disguise themselves as humans and feed on live, terrified humans in mock-plays before a live human audience ( who think the killings are merely a very realistic performance ).

Ritual killings perpetrated by individuals or small groups within a society that denounces them as simple murder are difficult to classify as either " human sacrifice " or mere pathological homicide because they lack the societal integration of sacrifice proper.

These killings are known as the December murders.

These killings are often conducted in ways meant to ensure the secrecy of the killers ' identities, so as to avoid accountability.

" Extrajudicial killings " are the illegal killing of leading political, trades union, dissidents, and social figures by either the state government, state authorities like the armed forces and police ( as in Liberia under Charles G. Taylor ), or criminal outfits such as the Italian Mafia.

Extrajudicial killings and death squads are most historically prevalent in the Middle East ( mostly in Iraq ), El Salvador, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, several nations or regions in Equatorial Africa, Jamaica, Kosovo, many parts of South America, Uzbekistan, parts of Thailand and in the Philippines.

According to the report, throughout the 1980s political killings rose to a peak of 3, 500 in 1988, averaging some 1, 500 victims per year since then, and " over 1, 500 civilians are also believed to have “ disappeared ” since 1978.

The killings are too late to save the Pope, however.

But he investigates and discovers that the killings the young man spoke of are taking place.

Giant killings are less well remembered in the League Cup than the FA Cup due to the absence of non-league sides and the fact that many big clubs have fielded very under-strength sides when knocked out.

These honour killings are generally seen in the West as a way of men using the culture of honour to control female sexuality.

" The original was a great psychological thriller, and we are going to bastardize and exploit it, ramping up the body counts and killings ," said Roth.

The Mexican government estimates that 90 % of the killings are drug-related.

Cases involving torture, killings and mistreatment of animals are some examples of cases handled by the ASPCA.

In Bangladesh, dowry killings are more frequently done by stabbing or poison rather than burning.

The Army did not usually participate directly in these mass killings, although officers of Reichenau's 6th Army took part in organising the massacre at Babi Yar.

These killings, are usually done by helicopter gunships, where both IAF commanders and Shabak agents sit together in the command center monitoring the operation.

* Apeshit-Spree killings, when someone flies off the handle and kills multiple people ( usually it must be more than 2 or 3, although wounding enough people with intent to kill may lower the required number of deaths ) in a short span of time ( minutes or hours ).

However, unrest continued, sparked in part by large-scale killings of civilians in southern Chad.

Militias and Heer units also took part in these killings.

* 1976 – The Reavey and O ' Dowd killings take place ( part of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom )

Katanga became part of the Congo Free State, which was annexed by Belgium in 1908 after an international outcry over the killings, brutality and slavery by Leopold's regime.

The brigade formed part of the Glenanne gang, a loose alliance of loyalist assassins which the Pat Finucane Centre has linked to 87 killings in the 1970s.

Ian Gibson suggests that García Lorca's assassination was part of a campaign of mass killings intended to eliminate supporters of the Marxist Popular Front.

A death squad is an armed military, police, insurgent, or terrorist squad that conducts extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a war, insurgency or terror campaign.

Hudson suspects that further details on the killings of Kenneth II could be found in lost works, part of an early Scottish literal tradition.

King Manuel severely punished those who took part in the killings.

Beyond this the UVF has largely avoided violent internal strife, with only two killings that can be described as being part of an internal feud taking place on Belfast's Shankill Road in late November 1975, with Archibald Waller and Noel Shaw being the two men killed.

Poirot explains to the Legion that the real ABC is not a homicidal maniac, but a sane man trying to pass a murder as a part of several serial killings.

Franklin, decided to make it look like a part of serial killings to throw any suspicions off him.

While the colonists called the Indian killings " massacres ", they considered their own forces ' widespread destruction of Indian villages and populations simply as part of the partisan war, but the Iroquois equally grieved their losses.

A great part of them were sent to concentration camps or to forced labor in Albania in the service of the German army, while there were also mass killings of Italian officers, mostly from the Perugia Division centered in Gjirokastër.

On May 19, 2011, the FBI requested DNA samples from Ted Kaczynski, known as the " Unabomber ", as part of its investigation into the killings.

In addition to Tabbert, the Arājs commando of native Latvians was responsible for a major part of these killings.

The killings occurred at a winter village of the natives, now thought to be part of present-day Pound Ridge or Bedford, N. Y.

Mass killings of Tasmanian Aborigines were reported as having occurred as part of the Black War in Van Diemen's Land.

As Kasabian had not played a direct part in any of the murders and never entered either residence, and by several accounts had challenged Manson over the killings, the offer of immunity to her was less bitterly contested, particularly by the prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi, who commented that he was relieved the offer was withdrawn from Atkins.

The two men were part of the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) gang that had carried out the Miami Showband killings and were accidentally blown up when the bomb they had planted in the band's minibus went off prematurely, killing them instantly.

Although some claimed the sepoys took no actual part in the killings themselves, they did not act to stop it and this was acknowledged by Captain Thompson after the British departed Cawnpore for a second time.

The killings were perceived as part of a large-scale purge of a whole social stratum, including anyone friendly to American forces in the region.

Alongside the military, primary responsibility for the killings themselves rests with two Hutu militias that had been organized for this purpose by political parties: the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi, although once the genocide was underway a great number of Hutu civilians took part in the murders.