1972 mass murders

1972 terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, Israel

1972 airliner bombing

bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast on 21 July 1972

failed coup d'état against Moroccan king Hassan II

1972 airliner bombing

The ' (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the (Killings'), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country. Conservative estimates place the death toll of the event between 100,000 and 150,000 killed, while some estimates of the death toll go as high as 300,000.