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Massacre
Incident of killing civilians / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Massacre (disambiguation).
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.[1] It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person.
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The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage".[2][3] Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial killing.