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Below is a list of incidents that are commonly labeled as massacres. They are typically, but not exclusively, single events that resulted in large numbers of deliberate and direct civilian deaths.

Generally, the list includes individual events only, but where such an event includes too many individual massacres to list separately (e.g., the Holocaust, the Great Purge), the wider event may be listed as well as some of the more prominent individual massacres. Note that the figure for deaths is usually an estimate, and is frequently contested. See the individual article on each massacre for more information. Furthermore, the distinction between a genocide and a massacre may be difficult and controversial, so this categorization should be seen as neither definitive nor authoritative. Please see relevant articles for further information.

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Pogroms and religious massacres
To be in this section, the primary motive for the massacre must have been ethnic or religious hatred.

Aerial bombardments

 * There is considerable dispute over whether bombing of civilian targets during wartime is appropriately called a massacre.

Criminal and non-political massacres

 * See also school massacres and "going postal".