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.

The killings were widely seen as a deliberate massacre of civilians perpetrated by Serbian security forces.

The United Nations also condemned the killings, with the Security Council and Secretary General describing them on January 31 as a massacre perpetrated by Yugoslav security forces.

* Living briefly in Weyauwega in 1957, Robert Bloch, most famously known as the author of the novel Psycho, quickly learned of the serial killings perpetrated by Ed Gein in nearby Plainfield, Wisconsin.

The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed under the so-called Femegerichte ( secret court ) system in which alleged traitors were killed after being " convicted " in secret " trials " that the victim was unaware of.

Buchrucker ′ s so-called " Black Reichswehr " became infamous for its practice of murdering all those Germans who were suspected of working as informers for the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany was in compliance with Part V. The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed under the so-called Femegerichte ( secret court ) system.

On July 25, 1996 with strong support and backup from the army, Buyoya returned to power in a military coup, ousting interim President Ntibantunganya who had been contested by the population due to his failure to stop killings perpetrated by rebels.

The Huế Massacre ( or ) is the name given to the summary executions and mass killings perpetrated by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army during their capture, occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

In October 1973, the Chilean song-writer Víctor Jara, and 70 other political killings were perpetrated by the death squad, Caravan of Death ( Caravana de la Muerte ).

Buchrucker's so-called " Black Reichswehr " became infamous for its practice of murdering all those Germans whom it was suspected were working as informers for the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany was in compliance with Part V. The killings perpetrated by the " Black Reichswehr were justifed by the revival of the Femegerichte ( secret court ) system.

Mayor Alioto announced the news of the raids and announced that the killings were perpetrated by the Death Angels.

They protested killings and abuses perpetrated by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department at the station in the barrio.

* 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

** Bloody Sunday Inquiry ( 1998 ), an inquiry commissioned by Tony Blair to investigate the killings of 1972

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

It has been strongly criticised by human rights organisations due to its terror, including killings, torture and sexual violence.

Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult ; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life.

Lenin himself seemed unfazed by the killings.

As a consequence of oppression, forced labor, hunger, disease, and mass killings, by 1535, only 60, 000 were still alive.

Accusations of mass killings by a government are relatively common.

The initial, formal killings of the Final Solution were undertaken by the SS Einsatzgruppen ( Task Forces ) death squads who followed the Wehrmacht during the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the USSR in June 1941.

The operation included a CIA-backed campaign of extrajudicial killings by government-backed units, most notably Battalion 316.

In August 2007, the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity produced a letter signed by 53 Nobel Laureates re-affirming the Genocide Scholars ' conclusion that the 1915 killings of Armenians constituted genocide.

In the history of the European colonization of North America, the term " Indian massacre " was often used to describe either mass killings of Europeans by indigenous people of the North American continent ( Indians ) or mass killings of indigenous people by the Europeans and by Americans of European origin.

However, when several protesters were shot and killed by police in Mitchelstown in 1887, the findings of a common inquest were quashed because the killings had taken place at different times and in different places.

Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were overshadowed by political killings on both sides.

This incident spurred reprisal killings and sabotage across the Rhineland, and when Krupp held a large, public funeral for the workers, he was fined and jailed by the French.

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.

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 ".

Nevertheless, due to the PFLP's spectacular successes, including the Dawson's Field hijackings ( September 1970 ), Lod Airport Massacre ( 1971 ), and coordination with the Fatah-backed Black September group in the Munich Olympic killings ( September 5 – 6, 1972 ), Habash continued to be the first among equals among the Rejectionist Front, the groups that refused any permanent settlement in a framework other than military victory.

As a show of support of women solidarity, Brand has participated in many anthologies and writing opposing the violent killings of Black men and women and specifically pointing out the massacre of fourteen women in Montreal and the racism and inequality experienced by Aboriginal women of Canada, particularly Helen Betty Osborne's death in the Pas.

The military conflict produced only a handful of killings in 1919, but steadily escalated from the summer of 1920 onwards with the introduction of the paramilitary police forces, the Black and Tans and Auxiliary Division into Ireland.

Despite occasional spontaneous episodes of pogroms and killings, as during the Black Death, Poland was a relatively tolerant home for the Jews in the medieval period.

These killings were ordered by the officers from Sondergruppe R. Regarding the Femegerichte murders, Carl von 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 ".

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

These killings were ordered by the officers from Sondergruppe R. Regarding the Femegerichte murders, Carl von 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 ".

Events that occurred during his tenure as mayor included strife in the Haight-Ashbury with the drug culture, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, Black Panther marches, The Zebra murders and Zodiac killings.

" Glenn Erickson, aka " DVD Savant ", noted " Bava probably didn't mean to invent a subgenre with Blood and Black Lace, a murder story which forgoes the slow buildups and character development of previous thrillers to concentrate almost exclusively on the killings themselves.

Along with Ferdinand Koenig, Goldman is tried by the USA for crimes against humanity and executed-it being judged that systematically instilling racist hatred of blacks in the Confederacy's population makes him a full accomplice in the Black Holocaust, even though he was not directly involved in the killings themselves.

In response to the killings, the Black and Tans retaliated by shooting up a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary at Croke Park, killing 14 civilians including one of the players, Michael Hogan, and wounding 68.