The original date was set for April 1970, but changed soon after to May 8th, 9th and 10th, to coincide with protests in the USA, just days after the killings of four students at Kent State.

The killings were planned to coincide with the Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary, because the large crowds around Dublin would provide easier movement and less chance of detection for the members of Collins ' Squad carrying out the assassinations.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

The area had a Protestant and Unionist majority and IRA actions were responded to with reprisals against the Catholic population, including killings ( such as the McMahon Murders ) and the burning of many homes – as on Belfast's Bloody Sunday.

* 1944 – 1945 The killings of several suspected collaborators with the Haganah and the British mandate government during the Hunting Season.

" The British killed over 4000, and the Mau Mau many more, as the assassinations and killings on all sides reflecting the ferocity of the movement and the ruthlessness with which the British suppressed it.

Violent reactions to karaoke singing have made headlines in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, with reports of killings by listeners disturbed by the singing.

An article on California street gang violence states that " killings and drive-by shootings have evolved as the most frequent violent crimes committed by gang members since the early 1980s ..., with an abundance of large-caliber handguns, shotguns, and automatic and semi-automatic weapons -- including AK-47s, Mac-10s, and Uzi submachine guns ".

Many of the killings in the Rwandan Genocide were performed with machetes, and they were the primary weapon used by the Interahamwe militias there.

Rival gangs, such as the Gennas and the Aiellos, started wars with Capone, eventually leading to an epidemic of killings of epic proportions.

He was the founding head of the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ), an intelligence organisation tasked with seeking out and neutralising resistance to the Nazi Party via arrests, deportations, and killings.

Of course there was a wave of Trinity-inspired films with quick and strong heroes, the former kind often called Trinity or perhaps coming from " a place called Trinity ", and with no ( or few ) killings.

* April 17 – The Stevens Report concludes that members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and British Army cooperated with the Ulster Defence Association in the killings of Catholics in Northern Ireland.

As of February 17, 1972, when Shakur was identified as one of four BLA members on a short trip to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Shakur was wanted for questioning ( along with Robert Vickers, Twyman Meyers, Samuel Cooper, and Paul Stewart ) in relation to police killings, a Queens bank robbery, and the grenade attack.

The period of the killings coincides with the conception of Adolf Hitler and the final scene alludes to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Their support and involvement with a series of killings of famous scholars, Imams and other noble personalities has given them title of one of the very first terrorist organizations in the world.

He's been suspected of being involved with the vigilante outfit Davao Death Squad and has been criticized by human rights groups and by Amnesty International for tolerating extrajudicial killings of alleged criminals.

The INLA retaliated with several killings of their own.

This led to a series of further killings and retributions, with federal and county lawmen supporting different sides of the conflict, which became known as the Earp Vendetta Ride.

In 1968, Karloff starred in Targets, a film directed by Peter Bogdanovich about a young man who embarks on a spree of killings carried out with handguns and high powered rifles.

According to the Northern Ireland security forces, he directed up to 20 sectarian killings, although he was never convicted in connection with any killing.

Wright's sister Angela told Dillon that her brother's decision to join the UVF had in fact had nothing to do with the Miami Showband killings and Dillon then concluded that Wright had encouraged this version of events as he felt linking his won UVF membership to the activities of his heroes Boyle and Sommerville added an origin myth to his own life as a loyalist killer.

These killings were ordered by the officers from Sondergruppe R. Regarding the Femegerichte murders, Ossietzky wrote: " Lieutenant Schulz ( charged with the murder of informers against the Black Reichswehr ) did nothing but carry out the orders given him, and that certainly Colonel von Bock, and probably Colonel von Schleicher and General Seeckt, should be sitting in the dock beside him ".

On September 3, 1939, two days after the beginning of the German invasion of Poland, highly controversial killings occurred in and around Bydgoszcz (), a Polish city with a sizable German minority.

Henry's attempts at reconciliation between the factions divided by the killings at St Albans reached their climax with the Loveday on 24 March 1458.

This resulted in a lethal upsweep of sectarian killings and internecine feuding with both the UDA and within the UVF itself.

" There may well have been a sexual motive to some of the developments he introduced to the killings, including the proposal that young male and female prisoners be tied together naked before the drownings, a method which was called a " Republican marriage ".

Her advisers suggest she marry Hizdahr zo Loraq to bring peace, and she agrees to the marriage if he can stop the killings for ninety days.

As depicted in these books, Theophano was indeed guilty of all the killings attributed to her in her lifetime, and the heritage of a mother who killed both his father and his stepfather caused her son Basil to distrust women and avoid marriage himself.

Tigers and wild dogs may be capable of killing a calf, but calves stay close to their mothers, and the frequency of such killings is unknown.

In 2000, the United Nations opened an investigation into vigilante killings of migrants crossing Mexico's border with the USA, dispatching a senior UN investigator to the border country close to where Sam Blackwood, a 74-year-old rancher, was charged with killing Eusebio de Haro, an unarmed Mexican he tried to subdue for the border patrol and fatally shot in the back of the thigh after pursuing him a quarter mile down the road in his truck.

Nor was there any direction set out for carrying out mass killings ", and " there was always close consideration of the people's well-being.

Arguably the film's most graphic scene is the " Disco Boy Scene ", in which special effects man Tom Savini, playing a small role and dressed in full 1970s disco regalia, has his head blasted off with a double-barreled 12-gauge shotgun while making out with a woman in the front seat of a vintage car fired by the killer through the car windshield at close range ( loosely inspired by the real life Son of Sam killings of serial killer David Berkowitz who shot people in parked cars with a. 44 Magnum revolver ).

Even the Viscount of Queluz, a medic and intimate friend of the Miguel, was exiled to Alfeite for joining the chorus of those who challenged the reprisal killings.

Guitar, Milkman's erstwhile best friend, tries to kill Milkman more than once after incorrectly suspecting that Milkman has cheated him out of hidden gold, a fortune he planned to use to help his Seven Days group fund their revenge killings in response to killings of blacks.

Edith McAlinden ( b. 1968 ) is a British murderess who, along with her teenage son John McAlinden and his friend Jamie Gray, was involved in a triple murder dubbed " The House Of Blood " killings in Glasgow, Scotland on 17 October 2004.

She also had a best friend Laura ( which in " Willows in the Wind " is revealed to be the person behind all the killings ) whom she met up with in the episode, " Zippered ".

Dr. Jekyll abhors this, but Sister Hyde relishes the killings as she begins to take control, even killing Jekyll's friend Professor Robertson when he attempts to question Hyde about the murders.

Some of the famous killings and events in those dark centuries by Assassins included the following ;

Buchalter was responsible for contract killings throughout the country, including that of famous Mob hitman and bootlegger Dutch Schultz.

This film is loosely based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and the famous legend around the Beast of Gévaudan.

The novel was later retitled And Then There Were None ( 1939 ), and remains one of her most famous works, about ten killings on a remote island.

The couple was famous for carrying out contract killings without failure.

His team starts to investigate and finds important people involved in the killings and a famous novelist is also involved.

It is perhaps most famous as the site of some of the killings in the Caledon Bay crisis, which marked a turning point in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.