Massacres are individual acts of mass killing of civilians or noncombatants, almost always characterised as having distinct political significance in shaping subsequent events.
Below is a list of incidents that are commonly referred to as massacres, though other incidents may also qualify yet not be called massacres.
... origin a Charles de Gaulle’s Appeal of June 18 in BBC where he proclaimed that the war was not over. Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain had already signed the armistice treaty ...