el mozote massacre - el salvador - 12/11/1981 - salvadorian army killed 800-1200 civilians during the salvadorian civil war

amritsar massacre - punjab, british india - 4/13/1919 - british army opened fire on indian civilians, killing 400, injuring 1,000

nanking massacre - nanking, china - Dec 1937 to Jan 1938 - imperial japanese troops committed mass murder and mass rapes against chinese residents, killing 40,000-300,000

my lai massacre - Son Tinh, South Vietnam - 3/16/1968 - mass murder of south vietnamese civilians by US troops during the Vietnam war, killing 347-504

srebrenica genocide - Srebrenica, Bosnia & Herzegovina - 7/11/1995 - genocide of Bosniak men and young boys perpetrated by the army of serb secessionist proto-state republika srpska and the scorpions, a serbian paramilitary group. deaths 8,372

bentalha massacre - bentalha village, south of algiers, algeria - 9/22/1997 - 85 to 400 deaths caused by armed guerrillas, the Armed islamic group claimed responsibility

wounded knee massacre - wounded knee, south dakota - 12/29/1890 - 250-300 Lakota indians massacred, half of them women and children, by the US Army attempting to disarm them

sabra & shatila massacre - West Beirut, Lebanon - 9/16/1982 - the killing of 460 to 3500 palestinian and lebanese civilians by a militia associated with a right-wing christian lebanese political party

tiananmen square incident - Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China - 6/4/1989 - chinese government declared martial law during the 1989 beijing protests, chinese troops occupied parts of beijing, and forcibly suppressed the protests. several thousand dead.

east timor genocide - East Timor under Indonesian occupation - 1975 thru 1999 - forced capitulation of East timorese residents to the US-backed Indonesian New Order government through genocidal massacres and forced disappearances. estimates 100k-300k dead.

warsaw uprising - Warsaw, Poland - aug 1944 thru oct 1944 - operation to liberate Warsaw from German occupation by the Polish underground resistance. timed to coincide with german retreat and soviet advances toward warsaw, the red army ceased combat operations temporarily, letting the germans regroup and defeat the resistance and destroy 85% of the city and caused 200,000 polish civilian deaths and 15,000 polish troops KIA

darfur genocide - Darfur, Sudan - 2/23/2003, ongoing - civil war between Khartoum national governments and rebel groups Justice and Equality Movement and Sudan Liberation Army. civil war between christians, animist black southerners, and arab-dominated government since Sudans independence. death toll 100,000-400,000. 3 million people victims of conflict.

guernica bombing - Guernica, Spain - 4/26/1937 - aerial bombing of civilians during Spanish Civil War, carried out by Nationalist Spain allied with Nazi Germany and Fascist italy. 150-1650 killed.

halabja chemical attack (bloody friday) - Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan - 3/16/1988 - massacre against kurdish people by Iraq conducted by Saddam Hussein after the town fell to Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. 5000 civilians killed. 10,000 injured