Massacres Collection

Jain monks arriving in New Delhi after fleeing Western Punja
Victims of the violence sweeping through India following Partition in 1947 - Jain monks arrive at Willingdon airport, New Delhi from the Gujranwala district north of Lahore in Western Punjab

Communal violence at its worst, Partition 1947
Communal violence at its worst: massacres in a divided Punjab. Page from the Illustrated London News, 6th September 1947 reporting on the Partition of India. Date: 1947

CIVIL WAR/CHINA/MASSACRE
Massacres take place in China. The rebels employ anti-Qing and anti-foreign slogans and attack foreign churches. Date: 1891

First-aid post near the Jami Masjid Mosque in Old Delhi
Wounds being dressed at the post before the people were sent on to refugee camps which have had to be established on the outskirts of the city since the outbreak of communcal massacres

Adana, Turkey - following the Armenian Massacre of 1909
Adana, Turkey - following the Armenian Massacre of April 1909. A religious-ethnic clash in the city of Adana amidst governmental upheaval

Massacre / Kanpur / 1857
Nana Sahib massacres those leaving Kanpur (Cawnpore). Date: 27th June 1857

Syria / Damascus 1860
General view of the city at the time of the massacres of the Maronite Christians by the Druses Date: 1860

Christian Damascus
The ruins of the Maronite Christian quarter of Damascus, consequent upon continual attacks and massacres by the Druses and the indifference of the Turkish government Date: February 1861

Prisoners Massacred
53 prisoners from Orleans are massacred at Versailles by a mob from Paris, along with 20 incarcerated in the prisons of Versailles. Date: 9 September 1792

Maillards Tribunal
Stanislas-Marie Maillard heads a tribunal which will decide who should be guillotined as enemies of the Revolution : this leads to the Massacres de septembre. Date: September 1792

Ethelfrid massacres monks
Ethelfrid, King of Bernicia (a region covering south east Scotland and north-east England), has the monks of Bangor-Is-Coed massacred for the reason that they offered prayers in support of the army

September Massacres
Stanislas-Marie Maillard heads a tribunal which decides which of the prisoners detained in the prisons shall be guillotined as enemies of the Revolution. Date: 2-3 September 1792

Armenian Refugees in open railway carriages, surrounded by Turkish troops

Street fighting in the Rue de Rivoli; Paris Commune, 1871
Illustration showing street fighting, in the Rue de Rivoli, between French Government troops and Paris Communards, 1871. Barricades can be seen at each end of the street

Massacres at Lyon
Six thousand people are slaughtered by revolutionary forces when they finally take Lyon, which has resisted the extremist activities of the Paris authorities

Payment to Massacrers
A record of the payments given to those who carried out the September Massacres at Paris and Versailles

Ethelfrith / Massacre / Monk
AEthelfrith (Ethelfrid) massacres the monks of Bangor

Massacre in Paris
Massacres in Paris, which lasted six days and resulted in over 1, 368 deaths

Ambrose and Theodosius
SAINT AMBROSE, bishop of Milan, is disapproving when emperor Theodosius massacres 7000 people of Thessalonica, and orders him to do public penance - which he does

Massacres of Royalists
MASSACRES OF ROYALISTS In Paris and throughout France, not only aristocrats but priests and wealthy merchants were assassinated by the revolutionary mobs

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