1. The Act of Killing
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2012
   A film is about the individuals who participated in the Indonesian killings of 1965–66.
2. Bolivians Demand Justice for 2003 Gas War Massacre
   Thousands March in El Alto
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Thousands of people marched in El Alto, Bolivia on October 17th, 2014 to demand justice for the 2003 massacre of over 60 people during the country’s Gas War under the Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (Goni) administration. Sanchez de Lozada is currently living freely in the US, and marchers demanded he and others in his government be brought to Bolivia to be tried for ordering the violence.
3. Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2010
   We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
4. Charleston Massacre Media Coverage: Recognizing the Crime, Downplaying the Causes
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Dylann Roof is a white male who killed nine people; targeting African Americans. Elliot Rodger was a white male who killed six people; targeting women. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (The Boston Bomber) is a non-white male who killed three people; targeting Americans. According to the media, only one is a terrorist. Can you guess which? Why is that that the media is so hesitant to call some people terrorists when they clearly are?
5. The Christmas Eve Calumet massacre, 1913
   Resource Type: Article
   A short history of the biggest mass murder in Michigan history: the massacre of 73 people, mostly the children of striking miners at a Christmas party on Christmas Eve in 1913.
6. Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza
7. Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2018
   Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
8. Don't Blame the Media for the Charleston Murders
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Featherstone argues that blaming the media for the Charleston Murders is an easy way to avoid doing any real thinking.
9. The Elaine Massacre, 1919
   Resource Type: Article
   One of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces after black farm workers tried to organise for better pay.
10. Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only a little more than two months before being ruthlessly crushed. A new book by Yale Professor John Merriman, "Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune," provides a remarkably detailed account of an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
11. False Prophets of Peace
    Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Honig-Parnass unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession.
12. 58 dead, 5 years, 0 justice in The Philippines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is joining its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) as they launch their week-long campaign to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre in Maguindanao, in the Philippines and calls on journalists and the media to join in the campaign for justice against the single biggest massacre of journalists in history.
13. 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by British Empire, after 'historical amnesia' claims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A YouGov poll found 43 per cent of Brits thought the British Empire was a good thing, while 44 per cent were proud of Britain's history of colonialism. The Independent looks at five of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire.
14. The Forgotten Massacres
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Fifty years ago, in 1965, hundreds of thousands of Indonesian communists were slaughtered -- all with the support of the US. For decades, this version of the mass killings of 1965–66 has been reinforced by state propaganda and parroted by Western experts who saw the "spontaneous" eruption in murderous violence as confirmation of pre-existing racist ideas about fanatical and irrational "orientals."
15. Four Hours in My Lai
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
16. Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
17. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
18. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Review of a book of the Indonesian massacres contains lengthy excerpts and summary of the history.
19. Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
20. Kill Anything That Moves
    The Real American War in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Turse demonstrates that violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the American war against Vietnam. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of orders to "kill anything that moves."
21. Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
22. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66,
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    
23. A Letter to CBC: Your Biased Coverage of the Land Day Massacre
    The following letter was sent yesterday to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding their biased coverage of the Land Day massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Chairperson of the Canada Palestine Association, Hanna Kawas, presents a letter to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, alleging editorial interference by pro-Israel lobbying group 'Honest Reporting Canada' in their coverage of the land day killings of unarmed civilians by Israeli government forces.
24. Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
25. The Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1982
    All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
26. The Massacre of Withdrawing Soldiers on "The Highway of Death"
    Excerpted from the book War Crimes: A report on United States war crimes against Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    I want to give testimony on what are called the "highways of death." These are the two Kuwaiti roadways, littered with remains of 2,000 mangled Iraqi military vehicles, and the charred and dismembered bodies of tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers, who were withdrawing from Kuwait on February 26th and 27th 1991 in compliance with UN resolutions. U.S. planes trapped the long convoys by disabling vehicles in the front, and at the rear, and then pounded the resulting traffic jams for hours. "It was like shooting fish in a barrel," said one U.S. pilot. The horror is still there to see.
27. Massacres - List of events named massacres - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
28. Massacres and Morality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
29. Massacres Under the Looking Glass
    The ICC and Colombia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
30. Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
31. Nanking Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A summary of the massacre at Nanking (Nanjing) , which occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937. During this period soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army perpetrated horrific atrocities, and murdered Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000.
32. NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
33. 100th Anniversary of 1918 Australian & New Zealand Surafend Massacre Of Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look back at the premeditated massacre of male Palestinian villagers by Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the village of Surafend and a nearby Bedouin camp, which took place on December 10, 1918. The massacre has been largely ignored but serves as an allegory of settler colonialism.
34. The Other 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
35. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
    Massacres and Morality
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
36. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
37. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
38. Remembering the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A look back at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of April 13, 1919, where British colonial forces opened fire on peaceful Indian protesters. The massacre stands as a pivotal moment in Indian history that laid bare the true face of British Imperialism.
39. Review: Nick Turse, Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam (2013)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Review of Nick Turse's book Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam.
40. St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants).
41. Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
42. The "Snipers' Massacre" on the Maidan in Ukraine
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2015
    On the mass killing of the "Euromaidan" protesters and police in the Maidan area of Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2014.
43. Socialist Register 1992
    Volume 28: New World Order?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
44. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
45. The Thiaroye massacre, 1944
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A short history of the mass killing of black soldiers in the Free French Forces who were protesting against non-payment of wages towards the end of World War II.
46. The time has come for France to own up to the massacre of its own troops in Senegal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The truth about a massacre of sub-Saharans who fought on the French side in World War II must be acknowledged.
47. The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    
48. 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
49. Turkey's Tiananmen in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    At 9:30 Saturday morning Turkish citizens opposed to their government’s war policies gathered at the Ankara Train Station for a demonstration organized by a broad alliance of organizations.
50. Two years since Rabaa massacre, impunity still reigns in Egypt
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On this day two years ago, the Egyptian army and riot police launched a deadly onslaught on supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured.
51. Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
52. West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
53. Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
54. Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?
    Letter to the Editor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2108
    Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condemnation of Israel's latest massacre in Gaza?

Experts on Massacres in the Sources Directory

1. United Nations