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Mass Murder
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Mass Murder
The systematic killing of a population, either entirely or the majority thereof. A mass murder may be perpetrated with the tacit or active support of a community or a group in the society in which it occurred, and usually is a single event. History’s largest mass murders have been attempts to exterminate an ethnic and other group—i.e., genocide


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In the King's Cross train, only the front carriage - where the mass murderer detonated his rucksack bomb - is being scrapped.
1922: French mass murderer, Henri "Bluebeard" Landru, was guillotined for the murder of at least 10 women whose bodies were never found.
MASS murderer Harold Shipman killed up to 15 patients while working as a junior doctor more than 30 years ago.
 
 
 
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