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.
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After the war practically every Frenchman claimed to have had connections to resistance. Some – like Maurice Papon – even manufactured a false resistance past ...