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1994 Genocide against Tutsi
1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in which 800,000 were killed
Katyn massacre
Soviet mass murder of ca. 22,000 Poles in several parts of European Russia, including in the Katyn forest, which became a pars pro toto name for the whole massacre
Beslan school siege
2004 terrorist attack in North Ossetia, Russian Federation
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
flight shot down by Iranian armed forces
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash
1983 shoot-down of a civilian airliner over the then–Soviet Union
Operation Gladio
military operation
Gaza flotilla raid
2010 Israeli military operation against a activist ship convoy
friendly fire
attack on friendly forces misidentified as hostile ones
Lavon Affair
1954 Israeli false flag operation in Egypt
Itavia Flight 870
Aviation accident in Italy, 1980
dedovshchina
Dedovshchina (, ) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian Armed Forces, internal troops, and to a lesser extent FSB, Border Guards, as well as in other armed forces and special services of former Soviet Republics. It consists of brutalization by more senior conscripts, NCOs, and officers. It is a form of non-statutory dominant-status relations between military personnel; the most common form of non-statutory relations, which is a violation of the statutory rules of relations between conscripts, based on
Battle of Buda
1686 battle of the Great Turkish War
Russian submarine Kursk explosion
accidental wrecking of a Russian nuclear submarine in 2000
Pat Tillman
American football player and soldier (1976-2004)
Japanese embassy hostage crisis
hostage crisis that began on 17 December 1996 in Lima, Peru
Lillehammer affair
failed but fatal assassination attempt carried out by Mossad agents in Lillehammer, Norway
Bodo League massacre
massacre during the Korean War
Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación
Spanish government death squads created to fight ETA
Assassination of the monks of Tibhirine
Algerian Civil War massacre
El Mozote massacre
1981 mass casualty event perpetrated by the Salvadoran army
Hill 303 massacre
incident in the Korean War on 17 Aug. 1950, in which 41 US prisoners of war were executed by North Korean troops in Waegwan-eup, Chigok-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
Thielbek
ship built in 1940
Tunam massacre
War crime during the Korean War
Ballymurphy massacre
1971 massacre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, by the British Army
false positives in Colombia
series of murders in Colombia by Colombian military and law enforcement between 2002-2008
Ådalen shootings
riot
Killing of Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim, and Samer Talalka
2023 killings of hostages by the Israeli military
K5 Plan
vast defensive belt along the Cambodian-Thai border
Dahyan airstrike
airstrike on 9 August 2018 in Dahyan, Yemen
2015 Zaria Massacre
armed attack by the Nigerian military on the Shi'a community of Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Trelew massacre
1972 massacre in Argentina
Brereton Report
Australian war crimes investigation and report
SS Deutschland
German ocean liner steamship (1923-45)
Dutchbat
Dutchbat (short for "Dutch Battalion") was a Dutch battalion under the command of the United Nations in operation UNPROFOR. It was hastily formed out of the emerging 11th Airmobile Brigade between February 1994 and November 1995 to participate in peacekeeping operations. It was tasked to execute United Nations Security Council Resolution 819 in the Bosnian Muslim enclaves and the designated UN "safe havens" of Srebrenica and Žepa during the Bosnian War.
Bus 300 affair
1984 summary execution by Israeli forces
Agusta scandal
Belgian corruption scandal
Ganghwa massacre
Korean massacre (1951)
Tak Bai incident
Part of the South Thailand insurgency
Battle of Stavishche
1664 battle
Russell Williams
Canadian convicted murderer and former colonel of the Canadian Armed Forces
Tamil genocide
characterization of violence by the Sri Lankan government against Tamils from 1956–2009
National Defense Corps Incident
incident that occurred in the winter of 1951 during the Korean War (death of retreating troops due to corruption)
Miami Showband killings
1975 mass murder in Northern Ireland
Tudun Biri drone strike
2023 bombing by the Nigerian army
Rais massacre
1997 mass killing by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
1986 Egyptian Conscription Riot
1986 mutiny in Cairo, Egypt
Battle of El Adde
2016 battle between Kenyan soldiers and Al-Shabaab militants
Geochang massacre
Konarak incident
2020 friendly fire maritime incident in Iran
Genocost
The term Genocost means genocide for economic gains. "A regime of destruction of a population through the systemic economic exploitation of its vital resources, the disintegration of its socioeconomic structures, and durable harms to its environment, when such effects are willed, known, or accepted as a necessary cost of profit or geoeconomic domination". The expression, referring to the human, social, and economic cost of armed conflicts linked to the exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has been incorporated into the national legal framework. Law No. 22/
Bloody Gulch massacre
War crime of the Korean War
Goyang Geumjeong Cave Massacre
war crime that committed in Korea
Piotr Soprunenko
Soviet (Ukrainian) Major-General who carried out the Katyn Massacre in World War 2.
Projekt 26
Projekt-26, best known as P-26, was a stay-behind army in Switzerland charged with countering a possible invasion of the country. The existence of P-26 (along with P-27) as secret intelligence agencies dissimulated in the military intelligence agency (UNA) was revealed in November 1990 by the PUK EMD Parliamentary Commission headed by senator Carlo Schmid. The commission, whose initial aim was to investigate the alleged presence of secret files on citizens constituted in the Swiss Ministry of Defence, was created in March 1990 in the wake of the Fichenaffäre or Secret Files Scandal, during whi