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The killing of Safa's family was part of what became known as the Haditha massacre, when US marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians, including four women and six children.

In what Mr. Hoyos calls “an amoral act of public policy,” Scipio massacred the townspeople of Ilugo for killing survivors of his father’s and uncle’s defeats who had sought refuge there five years earlier.

Only a small fraction of the population has managed to flee el-Fasher, where massacres are said to have take taken place.

And while rights groups labelled it a "massacre" and questioned its effectiveness, Rio de Janeiro State Governor Claudio Castro has announced that more operations against organised crime will follow.

So too, do the massacres carried out in the early years of colonisation between 1830 and 1880 that are little known in France.