Massacre
A massacre is an event in which large numbers of people, often, but not necessarily civilians, are indiscriminately killed by another or others. The word is also used to describe a scene of carnage, or in competitive activities, a comprehensive and disproportionate victory of one side over another. In warfare it is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person.
The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage". Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial killing.
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