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The Killing Fields ( Khmer: វាលពិឃាត, Khmer pronunciation: [ʋiəl pikʰiət]) are sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1.3 million people were killed and buried by the Communist Party of Kampuchea during Khmer Rouge rule from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–75). The mass ...
Norris shortly before his arrest in 1979. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (September 27, 1940 – December 13, 2019) and Roy Lewis Norris (February 5, 1948 – February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers and rapists who committed the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in southern ...
t. e. Mass killings under communist regimes occurred through a variety of means during the 20th century, including executions, famine, deaths through forced labour, deportation, starvation, and imprisonment. Some of these events have been classified as genocides or crimes against humanity. Other terms have been used to describe these events ...
Uvalde school shooting. / 29.19944°N 99.78833°W / 29.19944; -99.78833. The Uvalde school shooting[ 11][ 12][ 13] was a mass shooting on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and 2 teachers, while injuring 17 ...
The 2011 San Fernando massacre, also known as the second massacre of San Fernando, [ 1] was the mass murder of 193 people by Los Zetas drug cartel at La Joya ranch in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in March 2011. [ 2] Authorities investigating the massacre reported numerous hijackings of passenger buses on Mexican Federal ...
On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada from his 32nd-floor suites in the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 people [ a] and wounding at least 413.
April 5, 2018. ^ Four dead in China kindergarten attack, CNN (August 4, 2010) – China school attack kills at least three children, BBC News (August 4, 2010) – 4 Believed Dead in China School Attack, The New York Times (August 4, 2010) – At least three dead in knife attack on China school, AFP (August 4, 2010)
List of murderers by number of victims. For serial killers see: List of serial killers by number of victims. For mass murderers and spree killers see: List of rampage killers. For dictators see: List of dictators by death toll.