Massacre
incident where some group is killed by another
A massacre is the killing of multiple individuals and is usually considered to be morally unacceptable, especially when perpetrated by a group of political actors against defenseless victims. The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage".
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- I know of no word in the English language other than massacre which better describes the wanton slaughter of thousands of defenseless men, women and children.
- Kenneth Keating, quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
