Parker could weep -- and he wept astonishingly often and on the slightest provocation -- but the psychology of those tears was entirely compatible with a remorseless readiness to massacre his opponents.

Theodosius was threatened with excommunication by Ambrose for the massacre of 7, 000 persons at Thessalonica in 390, after the murder of the Roman governor there by rioters.

His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80, 000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop.

Andronikos Komnenos ' arrival was soon followed by a massacre of the Latin inhabitants of the city, who virtually controlled the economy of the city, with the massacre resulting in the deaths of 80, 000 " Latins ", i. e. Westerners.

The city of Assur was still occupied by Assyrians during the Islamic period until the 14th century when Tamurlane conducted a massacre of indigenous Assyrian Christians.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

Only a little over 2 weeks later, the Columbine High School massacre postponed a home game with the Montreal Expos ( it was made up as part of a doubleheader in August ).

Cuitláhuac was made tlatoani of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico ; After Pedro de Alvarado had ordered the massacre in the Main Temple, the Aztecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.

After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of the Crusader army.

But in spite of the wholesale massacre of Cathars during the war, Catharism was not yet extinguished.

The Ma ' alot massacre of 1974, an attack on Israeli school in which 27 people were killed, was the group's largest attack.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

Yaqub Khan, suspected of complicity in the massacre of Cavagnari and his staff, was obliged to abdicate.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Since he was Eleanor's vassal, many believed that it was she who had been ultimately responsible for the change in plan, and thus the massacre.

Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard de Launay was beaten, stabbed and decapitated ; his head was placed on a pike and paraded about the city.

The relentless work of Albornoz ushered in a decade of warfare and atrocity culminating in the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause who's entire population was executed by the Papal forces while paving the way of Urban V to Rome ( 1367 ).

Public concern with the goth subculture reached a high point in the fallout of the Columbine High School massacre that was carried out by two students, incorrectly associated with the goth subculture.

Further instability ensued, with several massacres, including the St Jean Bosco massacre in which the church of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was attacked and burned down.

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.

After the massacre, members of the utra-right Kach movement adopted " Barukh HaGever ", a song often played at Jewish weddings with its own line dance, because the Hebrew title can be interpreted as " Blessed be the Man " or " Baruch the Hero.

In 1970, claiming to act in retribution for the June 1956 León Suárez massacre and Juan José Valle's execution, the Montoneros kidnapped and executed former dictator Pedro Eugenio Aramburu ( 1955 – 1958 ) and others who they said were his collaborators, such as unionists, politicians, diplomats, and businessmen.

* May 7 – May 9 – Bava-Beccaris massacre: Hundreds of demonstrators are killed when General Fiorenzo Bava-Beccaris orders troops to fire on a rally in Milan, Italy ( in 1900, King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an act of vengeance for his praise of the shooting ).

May 13-Kfar Etzion massacre was an act committed by Arab forces, after the surrender of the Jewish village to Arab Legion.

The Bath School Disaster is the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in United States history, claiming more than three times as many victims as the Columbine High School massacre, and half-again as many victims as the Virginia Tech shootings.

* On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planned to use two car bombs as the last act of the Columbine High School massacre, apparently to murder police and first responders.

Many Americans felt the U. S. Army actions were harsh ; some related the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek to the " ungentlemanly act of kicking a man when he is already down.

The Iraqi High Criminal Court recognized the Halabja massacre as an act of genocide on March 1, 2010, a decision welcomed by the Kurdistan Regional Government.

On September 1, 1983, the Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 with 269 people aboard, including sitting Congressman Larry McDonald, when it violated Soviet airspace just past the west coast of Sakhalin Island near Moneron Island — an act which Reagan characterized as a " massacre ".

At one point during his campaign for the presidency, Echeverría called for a moment of silence to remember the victims of the Tlatelolco massacre, an act which enraged President Díaz Ordaz and almost prompted him to call for Echeverría's resignation.

The massacre is believed to be an act of retaliation for earlier alleged murders by Ukrainian Insurgent Army of 9 ( or 11 ) Poles in Pawłokoma and unspecified number of Poles killed by UPA in neighbouring villages.

This act arose from Da Veiga's disagreement with the legalisation of the Communist Party of Spain ( PCE ) on 9 April 1977, following the Atocha massacre by neo-fascists ( Spanish: ' ultras ').

As an act of revenge to the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, in April 1994, Hamas launched suicide bomber attacks targeting Israeli civilian population in many locations throughout Israel, however, once the Hamas started to the use these means it became a regular pattern of action against Israel.

The act of scalping featured prominently in some Westerns such as the 1966 Burt Reynolds spaghetti western Navajo Joe which opens with an Indian massacre in which a white profiteer scalps an Indian woman, and the 1990 film Dances with Wolves which shows Pawnee Indians with scalps hanging from their bow or lance and Timmons, the teamster is scalped after being ambushed by the Pawnee.

In the wake of the FBI's consistent performance in handling red flags of possible terrorist threats after the Fort Hood shooting case, Clarice Feldman of The American Thinker asked " Aside from racing to the scene of the massacre and declaring that this was not an act of terrorism, what is the FBI's role in counter-intelligence?

Evans continues to be strongly criticised by many commentators – most prominently Noam Chomsky and John Pilger – for supporting Australia ’ s recognition of Indonesian sovereignty over East Timor following its military invasion in 1975, negotiating ( and celebrating ‘ replete with champagne ’) with then Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas the Timor Gap Treaty, and describing the 1991 Dili massacre as ' an aberration, not an act of state policy '.

He grieves the loss of the dog, then proceeds to massacre the remaining British pilots in an act of bloody revenge.

This act marked the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, while in Burundi, the death of Ntaryamira exacerbated the violence and unrest, although there was no general massacre.

The commission in the epilogue to its report called the massacre " a base and murderous act, in which innocent people bending in prayer to their maker were killed ".

The resolution co-sponsored by four Georgia state legislators stated that Armenia continues to formally deny any responsibility for the tragedy while President Serzh Sargsyan depicted the massacre as an act of revenge to " break stereotypes ".

The resolution co-sponsored by four Georgia state legislators stated that Armenia continues to formally deny any responsibility for the tragedy while President Serzh Sargsyan depicted the massacre as an act of revenge to " break stereotypes ".

He knew that Philippine troops and recognized guerrillas would have killed the pilot themselves, and the Japanese reprisal for that act would have been a merciless burning of the poblacion and a massacre of innocent civilians.

This bit of Beamer's family history helps explain why he was such a powerful voice in Blacksburg after the Virginia Tech massacre, after which he said the important thing was not to allow the act of violence to define the university.

In 1892, he entered the Giovanni Giolitti cabinet as Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanying, in that capacity, King Umberto I and Queen Margherita to Potsdam, but chose not to act against France on the occasion of the massacre of Italian workmen at Aigues-Mortes.