Mass Murder


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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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It is hard to understand how any right-thinking person could fail to call slaughtering unthreatened Japanese mass murder.
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Strict classification is -- perhaps because of its inherent artificiality -- almost always a prime begetter of problems and headaches, and the defining line between mass murder and serial killing does seem occasionally blurred.
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He Shaw was astonishing.
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