Man's cruelty had been manifested many times in history through indiscriminate killings of human beings. This horrible act of men is called massacre. Here are 12 of the most tragic incidents of slaughter of people in history.
1. The Nanking Massacre
The massacre of Nanking according to reliable sources had estimated 200,000 - 300,000 victims, mostly civilians. This infamous tragedy is one of the most tragic in Chinese history. This incident is popularly called the Rape of Nanking, an act of violence committed by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army upon its occupation of China in December, 1937 and lasted until early February 1938. The Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. Hundreds of women and children were also killed.
2. The Babi Yar Massacre
Babi Yar is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. On September 29 and 30, 1941, a special team of German SS troops supported by other German units, local collaborators and Ukranian police murdered 33,771 Jewish civilians. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust". In the months that followed, thousands more were seized and taken to Babi Yar where they were shot. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians, of whom a significant number were Jews, were murdered by the Nazis there during World War
3. The Massacre of Prisoners
A tragic massacre committed by the Russians is the Massacre of Prisoners. The overall death toll in the Massacre of Prisoners is estimated at around 100,000, including more than 10,000 in Western Ukraine. It was a series of mass executions committed by the Soviet NKVD against prisoners in Poland, the Baltic States, and parts of the Soviet Union from which the Red Army was withdrawing after the German invasion in 1941.
4. The Katyn Massacre
The Katyn Massacre is an incident that occurred in Russia with a number of victims estimated at about 22,000. The victims were murdered in the Katyn forest, the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere. This massacre is also known as the Katyn Forest massacre. It was a mass execution of Polish military officers, policemen and civilian prisoners of war ordered by Soviet authorities on March 5, 1940.
5. The Massacre of Elphinstone's Army
The total incompetence of a commanding officer led to the massacre of Elphinstone's Army in January 1842. This incident was named after Major-General William Elphinstone. It was a victory of Afghan forces, led by Akbar Khan against a combined British and Indian force led by Ephinstone. After the British and Indian troops captured Kabul in 1839, an Afghan uprising forced the occupying garrison out of the city. The British army, consisting of 4,500 troops
and 12,000 working personnel left Kabul on January 6, 1842. They attempted to reach the British garrison at Jalalabad, 90 miles away, but were immediately harassed by Afghan forces. The remaining forces were killed near Gandamak on the 13th of January. Only William Brydon, the assistant surgeon, survived and managed to reach Jalalabad.
6. The Batak Massacre
Batak massacre occurred on April 30, 1876. It is referred to the massacre of Bulgarians in Batak by 8,000 Ottoman troops at the beginning of the April Uprising. There were an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 number of victims according to different sources. According to other sources, 5,000 people were massacred in Batak alone. The number of victims in the district of Philippopolis estimated at 15,000. Most of the victims were beheaded.
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