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

Abancourt and his fellow-prisoners were murdered in cold blood in massacres on 9 September 1792 at Versailles, and Fournier was unjustly charged with complicity in the crime.

Although until the 13th century religious minorities ( Jews and Muslims ) had enjoyed considerable tolerance in Castilla and Aragon – the only Christian kingdoms where Jews were not restricted from any professional occupation – the situation of the Jews collapsed over the 14th century, reaching a climax in 1391 with large scale massacres in every major city except Ávila.

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.

Jumblatt declared a rebellion, and between 1821 and 1825 there were massacres and battles, with the Maronites attempting to gain control of the Mt.

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.

With the start of the German war against Poland in 1939, the German minority in the parts of Masuria attached to Poland after World War I, organised in paramilitary formation called Selbstschutz begun to engage in massacres of local Polish population ; Poles were imprisoned, tortured and murdered while Masurians were sometimes forcefully placed on Volksliste

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.

Among the points of contention are whether the victims of massacres such as the Račak massacre and Srebrenica massacre were unarmed civilians or armed resistance fighters, whether death and rape tolls were inflated, and whether prison camps such as Sremska Mitrovica camp were sites of mass war crimes.

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

His intentional misinformation, that the " film you are about to see is true ", was a response to being " lied to by the government about things that were going on all over the world ", including Watergate, the 1973 oil crisis, and " the massacres and atrocities in the Vietnam War ".

William Rubinstein wrote that " Pre-literate societies, even those organised in a relatively advanced way, were renowned for their studied cruelty ... ' archaeology yields evidence of prehistoric massacres more severe than any recounted in ethnography after the coming of the Europeans '.

The assassinations were against those whose elimination would most greatly reduce aggression against the Ismailis and, in particular, against those who had perpetrated massacres against the community.

During this time, encroachment on their land and a series of massacres had reduced Awá numbers to about 300, of whom only about 60 were still living their traditional, isolated, hunter-gatherer way of life.

Its leader Paul Kagame directed RPF forces in neighboring countries such as Uganda and Tanzania to invade the country, but here, Paul Kagame did not direct RPF Forces from neighbouring countries because RPF was already in Rwanda for three years and half battling the Hutu forces and Interahamwe militias who were committing the massacres.

Those who escaped massacres were many times unable to survive without access to their food-gathering areas, and they starved to death.

Nazi propaganda had openly, and proudly, announced the events in Lidice, unlike other massacres in occupied Europe which were kept secret.

Alleged massacres of Germans, such as Bloody Sunday were used in such propaganda, and the film Heimkehr drew on such attempts although allowing the Volksdeutsche depicted to survive, saved by the arrival of German tanks.

The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29 – 30, 1941, wherein 33, 771 Jews were killed in a single operation.

His government also oversaw several massacres, including the Jeju massacre on Jeju island, where up to 60, 000 rebels and civilians were killed by the Army.

These figures are inclusive of massacres as well as deaths not attributed to necklacing.

He claims ‘ Yussuf-Joseph ’, a career secret agent in Algeria ’ s sécurité militaire for 14 years, defected to Britain in 1997 and told the Guardian that civilian massacres in Algeria, blamed on the GIA, were ‘ the work of secret police and army death squads … not Islamic extremists ’.

The GIA has been completely turned by the Government … In 1992 Smain created a special group, L ’ Escadron de la Mort ( the Squadron of Death )… The death squads organize the massacres … The FIS aren ’ t doing the massacres .’

The massacres were blamed on Islamist groups such as the GIA.

Over the next few years, the GIA began a series of massacres targeting entire neighborhoods or villages ; some evidence also suggests the involvement of government forces.

A splinter group of the GIA, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ( GSPC ), initially based on the fringes of Kabylie, formed in 1998 to dissociate itself from the massacres.

UN officials stated that there had been " 15 massacres " between 1996 and 2001.

U. N. officials stated that there had been " 15 massacres " between 1996 and 2001.

A slave revolution in Saint-Domingue ( present-day Republic of Haiti ) over previous years had resulted in massacres of the planter class.

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

The book also contains a secondhand description of the killing of German prisoners of war by British troops ; although Graves had not witnessed any incidents himself and knew of no large-scale massacres, he had been told about a number of incidents in which prisoners had been killed individually or in small groups ; consequently he was prepared to believe that a proportion of Germans who surrendered never made it to prisoner-of-war camps.

Franklin used the massacres to illustrate his point that no race had a monopoly on virtue, likening Paxton Men to " Christian White Savages '".

When he was informed of the massacres of Italian prisoners, Omar Bradley told Patton that U. S. troops had murdered some 50 – 70 prisoners in cold blood.

In November 1991, after the massacres at Santa Cruz ( near Dili, East Timor ), Kelly had supported Indonesian President Suharto and declared him to be a moderate with no alternative to his rule.

When questioned by Maxwell Fyfe about the Libau massacres, Raeder claimed that he no idea about what had happened, and maintained that he would have stopped the massacres had he known.

The RPF renewed its civil war against the Rwanda Hutu government when it received word that the genocidal massacres had begun.

This system was modified to try lower-level génocidaires, those who had killed or stolen but did not organize massacres.

Kagame also desired this, both to increase the resources of Rwanda by adding those of the Kivu region, and also to add the Tutsi population, which the Banyamulenge represented, back into Rwanda, thereby reinforcing his political base and protecting the indigenous Tutsis living there, who had also suffered massacres from the Interhamwe.

Over the centuries, the House of Savoy had its share of controversies ( including massacres of unarmed civilians including children and the elderly ) on more than one occasion.

We read of multitudes who, after they had been stripped of all their arms, put themselves to death because of the dishonour ; of extensive massacres of surrendered victims, and the frequent execution of harsh plunders.

Relations between settlers and indigenous peoples in the Verde Valley were essentially peaceful from that point on and with the rapid increase in settlers along Oak Creek, although there were " Indian scares " into the 1880s mostly in connection with conflicts elsewhere: In the words of settler W. A. Jordan, in about 1880 " The settlers were in no danger from this band of hunters he had just met between Clarkdale and Cornville, but they were so wrought up over the stories of massacres and murders that the Indians themselves were in the greatest danger.

The Ostrogoth invasion of 386, the revolt of Maximus in 387, the Antioch revolt of 387, the invasion of Gaul in 388, the massacres at Thessalonika and the rebellion of Argobastes and Eugenius in 393 had severely weakened the Roman Empire.