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==Origin==
Middle French, French ''massacre'' massacre, butchery
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1578]
the first usage of which was "1588 J. PENRY Viewe Publ. Wants Wales 65 Men which make no [[conscience]] for gaine sake, to break the [[law]] of the æternall, and massaker soules...are dangerous subjects".
==Definitions==
*1: the [[act]] or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting [[human being]]s under circumstances of atrocity or [[cruelty]]
*2: a cruel or wanton [[murder]]
*3: a wholesale slaughter of [[animals]]
*4: an act of complete [[destruction]] <the author's massacre of traditional federalist presuppositions
==Description==
A '''massacre''' is an [[incident]] where some [[group]] is killed by another, and the perpetrating party are [[perceived]] to be in total [[control]] of [[force]] while the [[victimized]] party is perceived to be helpless and/or [[innocent]] with regard to any legitimate [[offense]]. There is no clear-cut [[definition]] for when killings are referred to as massacres or not, rather, this choice is a result of an [[individual]] or [[collective]] assessment, depending e.g. on how the circumstances of the killing align with given [[ideas]] of acceptable use of [[force]] and on the desired status of an event in collective [[memory]].
The term massacre derives from the Latin term for mass sacrifice. The first recorded use in English of the word massacre in the name of an event is "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe Marlowe] (c1600), The massacre at Paris" (a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]). Massacre can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, [[animals]]) in numbers, esp. brutally and indiscriminately".
[[Category: Law]]
==Origin==
Middle French, French ''massacre'' massacre, butchery
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1578]
the first usage of which was "1588 J. PENRY Viewe Publ. Wants Wales 65 Men which make no [[conscience]] for gaine sake, to break the [[law]] of the æternall, and massaker soules...are dangerous subjects".
==Definitions==
*1: the [[act]] or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting [[human being]]s under circumstances of atrocity or [[cruelty]]
*2: a cruel or wanton [[murder]]
*3: a wholesale slaughter of [[animals]]
*4: an act of complete [[destruction]] <the author's massacre of traditional federalist presuppositions
==Description==
A '''massacre''' is an [[incident]] where some [[group]] is killed by another, and the perpetrating party are [[perceived]] to be in total [[control]] of [[force]] while the [[victimized]] party is perceived to be helpless and/or [[innocent]] with regard to any legitimate [[offense]]. There is no clear-cut [[definition]] for when killings are referred to as massacres or not, rather, this choice is a result of an [[individual]] or [[collective]] assessment, depending e.g. on how the circumstances of the killing align with given [[ideas]] of acceptable use of [[force]] and on the desired status of an event in collective [[memory]].
The term massacre derives from the Latin term for mass sacrifice. The first recorded use in English of the word massacre in the name of an event is "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe Marlowe] (c1600), The massacre at Paris" (a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]). Massacre can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, [[animals]]) in numbers, esp. brutally and indiscriminately".
[[Category: Law]]