In Asia, Japan committed large massacres of Chinese civilians.

According to a 55-page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

After Germany's withdrawal from Kosovo in late 1944, Yugoslavia's communist partisans took possession of the province and committed retaliatory massacres against Albanians.

( see video ) According to a 55-page report by the United Nations, the Taliban, while trying to consolidate control over northern and western Afghanistan, committed systematic massacres against civilians.

The historian Kenneth Scott Latourette said that " the Portuguese had chiefly themselves to thank " for the massacres the Chinese committed against them.

Cuska massacre, Podujevo massacre, were some of the massacres committed by the Serbian police and paramilitaries during the war.

The Taliban and their allies committed massacres against Afghan civilians, denied UN food supplies to 160, 000 starving civilians and conducted a policy of scorched earth burning vast areas of fertile land and destroying tens of thousands of homes during their rule from 1996-2001.

* October 5 – Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.

The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913 was still ready to endorse a version of this view, describing the massacres as " an entirely political act committed in the name of the immoral principles of Machiavellianism " and blaming " the pagan theories of a certain raison d ' état according to which the end justified the means ".

* List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

* List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

Two Truth Commissions, the REMHI report, sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, and the CEH report, conducted by the United Nations as part of the 1996 Accords of Firm and Durable Peace, documented widespread human rights abuses committed by Ríos Montt's military regime, including widespread massacres, rape, torture, and acts of genocide against the indigenous population.

In the western region of Oran, Sultan Abderrahmane of Morocco, the Commander of the Believers, could not remain indifferent to the massacres committed by the French Christian troops and to belligerent calls to enter jihad from the marabouts.

: vengeance for the crimes committed by the Ustaše was executed immediately after the war, with the terrible massacres at Bleiburg in Austria and during the so-called Way of the Cross ( Death Marches ), when many innocent opponents of the Communist regime were also killed.

In May 2012, Lauder condemned as " despicable " remarks made by the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung who had " revived anti-Semitic canards such as Jewish control of the media " and suggested that Israel ’ s Mossad could have been behind the 2011 " massacres in Norway committed by Anders Breivik " in which 77 people died.

* List of massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

However, on 12 November 1944 General Vladislav Petrovich Vinogradov of the Soviet Red Army expulsed the returning Romanian authorities from Northern Transylvania with reference to the massacres committed by members of Iuliu Maniu's so-called Maniu Guard, and the Romanian authorities were not allowed to return until the government of Petru Groza was formed on 6 March 1945.

A series of massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars were committed by the Serbian and Montenegrin Army.

Goldhagen said that “ Mayer ’ s enormous intellectual error ” is in ascribing the cause of the Holocaust to anti-Communism, rather than to anti-Semitism, and criticized Prof. Mayer ’ s saying that most massacres of Jews in the USSR, during the first weeks of Operation Barbarossa ( 1941 ) in the summer of 1941, were committed by local peoples, with little Wehrmacht participation, and accused him of traducing the facts about the Wannsee Conference ( 1942 ), which was meant for plotting the genocide of European Jews, not ( as Mayer said ) merely the resettlement of the Jews.

Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovač, and Zoran Vuković were convicted of crimes against humanity for rape, torture, and enslavement committed during the Foča massacres.

It is considered a prelude to the massacres, and is recognized as the first mass murder committed by the UPA in the area.

The massacres committed in Poland in 1939 caused tension with the German Army, who, while having no moral objections to the massacres of Poles, felt these killings were injurious to military discipline.

Between June 23 – 27, 1941, 4, 000 Jews were killed on the streets of Kaunas by local people, and saw the first massacres of Jews in open pits committed by Lithuanian anti-Semites.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

The massacres by Tamurlane massively reduced the Assyrian population throughout Mesopotamia.

Following the capture of Kilkis, the Greek army's pace was not quick enough to prevent the destruction of Nigrita, Serres, and Doxato and massacres of non-combatant Greek inhabitants at Demir Hisar and Doxato by the Bulgarian army.

Rebel commando groups ( Codos ) in southern Chad were broken up by government massacres in 1984.

Clergyman Bartolomé de Las Casas observed a number of massacres initiated by the invaders as the Spanish swept over the island, notably the massacre near Camagüey of the inhabitants of Caonao.

The imperial army also actively perpetrated massacres until the ousting of the Emperor by the Derg in 1974.

This conflict was accompanied by large-scale massacres of both Romans and Jews.

His conscription policies led to a popular Arab revolt in 1834, resulting in major casualties for the local Arab peasants and massacres of Christian and Jewish communities by the rebels.

The 1941 pro-Axis coup in Iraq was accompanied by massacres of Jews.

Hezbollah also denounced the massacres in Algeria by Armed Islamic Group, Al-Gama ’ a al-Islamiyya attacks on tourists in Egypt, and the murder of Nick Berg.

In particular, refugees from the massacres conducted by the Korean forces in what is termed the Jeju Uprising, were treated as " smugglers " and frequently forcibly returned to Korea.

As part of this conflict one of the most remembered massacres of Maronite Christians by Druze forces occurred, forces that were aligned with the wali of Damascus.

The progression towards violence in anarchism stemmed, in part, from the massacres of some of the communes inspired by the ideas of Proudhon and others.

Macao was first settled by Portuguese survivors of the massacres of the Portuguese at Ningbo and at Quanzhou by Chinese government soldiers.

The massacres resulted in the Portuguese survivors fleeing to Macao, where they were allowed by China to start a colony to build sheds for drying goods in 1557.

According to the Sri Lankan Military these militias were formed after " massacres done by the LTTE " and in the early 1990s they were reformed as the Sri Lankan Home Guard.

The mass burial place of the victims of the massacres carried out in the fort is a grass field, marked by a simple yet frankly worded memorial written in several languages.

Some of the worst massacres against civilian Albanians by Serbian forces occurred after NATO started its bombing of Yugoslavia.

The conflict has been described by Mukesh Kapila, UN coordinator for Sudan, as ethnic cleansing, as Black Arab militias carry out systematic massacres of tribespeople in the Darfur region.

Additional massacres by the Shining Path occurred, such as the one in Marcas on August 29, 1985.