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  Mass murder
A mass murder (massacre) involves the murder of large numbers of people either by a state or an individual.
In recent years, terrorists have performed acts of mass murder as acts of intimidation, and to draw attention to their causes.
The wrongful killing of large numbers of civilians or prisoners during war is called a war crime although it may also be genocide if the proper ethnic motivation is present as in the killings which occurred in the breakaway republics of the former Yugoslavia or in the killing of the Pequot in colonial America.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Mass_murderer.html   (379 words)

  
 Mass crimes against humanity and genocide
Mass murder and genocide of an identifiable group for a variety of reasons.
The persecution and mass murder of European Jews by Christians from 306 to 1945 CE was the longest lasting mass crime against humanity.
The mass murder by the communist government of the USSR of 20 or more million of its citizens (1917 to 1987), and by the communist government of China of about 35 million of its citizens (1949 to 1987) probably involved the greatest loss of life.
www.religioustolerance.org /genocide0.htm   (571 words)

  
  Mass Killers - Mass murder defined, Historical overview, Psychological profiles of mass murderers
Murder is the killing of one person by another person with "malice aforethought"; there may or may not be premeditation.
Mass killers differ from serial killers in that serial killers murder their victims separately and over a period of time, with a cooling-off period between murders.
One of the difficulties in gathering data on the mass murderer is that he or she often commits suicide.
www.deathreference.com /Ke-Ma/Mass-Killers.html   (3315 words)

  
 USSR--Genocide and Mass Murder
Initially, the result was to be a chapter in a monograph on 20th century genocide and mass killing.
To murder someone means to unlawfully and purposely kill him, or to be responsible for his death through reckless and depraved indifference to his life (as in Soviet deportations or the labor camps).
murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connexion with any crime against peace or any war crime.
www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/NOTE4.HTM   (2112 words)

  
 Mass Murder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mass murder should also be distinguished from spree murder, which involves several victims but not all in one place.
Little is known about it, however, since in comparison to serial killers who are usually apprehended, sent to prison, and can be interviewed, the mass murderer usually ends up taking their own life or is killed by police ("suicide by cop").
About the only way to study mass murder is by conducting "psychological autopsies" or speculating about similarities between cases.
faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/428/428lect21.htm   (972 words)

  
 David Gelernter on mass murder on National Review Online
We needn't and shouldn't wait for the investigation of the September 11 massacres to finish.
We know what bin Laden is — and if he didn't mastermind this mass murder, we want him anyway, because we don't play games with terrorists anymore.
The president and secretary of state said that the massacres were an attack on freedom and democracy.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-gelernter091401.shtml   (845 words)

  
 Unabomber/Zodiac: Mass Murder and Modus Operandi
The murders are acts of desperation, serving as vehicles for bringing the perpetrator into the public eye and drawing attention to his sense of impotence, his frustration, his anger and hostility.
Second, unlike the mass murderer, the serial killer comes to enjoy the continuing sense of power that his crimes afford him, and he seeks to conceal the evidence of his crimes in order to continue in their enjoyment for the longest possible period of time.
The key difference between the mass murderer and the mad bomber seems to repose in the willingness of the former to commit suicide, and in the unwillingness of the latter to expose himself to risk.
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  Mass murderers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
And, say the experts, these lethal criminals are increasingly common: Mass murder is not strictly a 20th-century phenomenon, but theorists believe that a breakdown in social controls during the past three or four decades has undermined the inhibitions that ordinarily keep a person from acting on the impulse to kill.
Mass murder so grossly violates social and moral norms that is seems those who commit it must be insane.
But the very fact that mass murders only occur rouses in many the dreadful suspicion that life is a crapshoot: Any one of us can run fatally afoul of a man who is consumed with rage and compelled to act it out.
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  Mass murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time.
In recent years, terrorists have performed acts of mass murder as acts of intimidation, and to draw attention to their causes.
His racism escalates as the story progresses, culminating in his decision to commit mass murder at a university campus during a ceremony where a new center for studies in multiculturalism is announced.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mass_murder   (1588 words)

  
 Murder information - Search.com
In criminal law, murder is the crime of causing the death of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm, which is traditionally termed "malice aforethought".
Murder rates of Japan and Iceland are among the lowest in the world, around 0.5; rate of United States is highest among all developed countries, at 5.5 (2004, [9]).
Murder demographics are affected by increasing medical technology: victims that might once have died are now able to be saved, leading to a lower murder rate but not affecting the overall rate of violent assault.
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 American Thinker: Mentors to Mass Murderers
Consider, by contrast, the ordinariness of mass murders against Israelis, and in particular, a few of many murderous events surrounding the Hebrew University massacre of July 31.
June 18, a mass murderer detonated a bomb on an Egged Bus traveling from Gilo to the center of Jerusalem, killing 19 people and injuring 74 others.
These acts of mass murder, along with at least a dozen and a half others, all occurred in a single summer.
www.americanthinker.com /2007/04/mentors_to_mass_murderers.html   (851 words)

  
 Add an automatic weapon, and it's four easy steps to mass murder - Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mass murder certainly wasn't invented with the 1966 Texas Tower shootings.
Mass murders (and, especially, mass shootings) became increasingly common and the body counts began to grow as well.
The murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech this week may have been the worst, but it was only one of about 20 mass shootings each year in the US, a subset of the two dozen or so mass murders.
www.smh.com.au /news/opinion/add-an-automatic-weapon-and-its-four-easy-steps-to-mass-murder/2007/04/18/1176696913343.html   (865 words)

  
 Untitled Document
For our purposes, mass murder is defined as the killing of three or more people in one place, at one time.
Additionally, mass murders may also be classified as occurring out of a warped sense of love — as would be the case with some family massacres, or oriented toward profit — as with felony murder, or result from acts of terrorism.
The principal motivation is instrumental, although the murders themselves usually result from either a perceived need to eliminate witnesses, or as a consequence of the offender losing control of the situation.
www.auburn.edu /~peteeta/massmurder1.htm   (2522 words)

  
 Female mass murderers, major cases and motives --- the Crime Library - The Crime library
Mass killers are generally profiled as white, middle-aged males who have lost their jobs or have some other anger-related issues or revenge fantasies.
Mass murderers are sometimes confused with spree killers, and some serial or spree killers having also committed mass murder.
Generally speaking, the psychology of a mass murderer is quite distinct from that of a serial killer, especially a predatory one who is not guided by delusions.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/mass/female_mass_murderer/3.html   (848 words)

  
 Criminal Justice Resources : Serial or Mass Murder
Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time.
The crime of mass murder is surrounded by myth, false assumptions, and misinformation.
The mass murderer is rarely a crazed killer who lashes out against his victims in a mindless frenzy of violence.
www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/crimjust/serial.htm   (3710 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When the body count was tallied, it became the third largest mass murder by a lone gunman in United States history.
These practices were unquestionably a major cause of the murder of seven people in 1989, and [M]ay have played a role in the murders of others in recent years.
Contrary to postal propaganda, the killers are not drug-crazed psychotics, but hard-working, caring employees who, under what the Postal Service considers its "right to mismanage," had their work ethic used against them by a top heavy bureaucracy that feeds unappreciatively off the fruits of labor.
www.lycos.com /info/mass-murder.html?page=3   (480 words)

  
 Mass Murder and Pornography on the University of Florida Campus
Recent acts of extreme violence surrounding the campus, which have involved at least 5 victims of murder within a 48 hour period, should cause people to wonder if the violence and pornography are related.
University of Florida President John Lombardi called the murders "random and horrific" and said that the university's first day of school was filled with sudden horror.
Only time will tell whether or not the murderer was motivated by the same sickness that plagued the minds of Bishop and Bundy, however, the availability of pornography in our society is an indictment against us.
www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0393_Murder__Pornography_.html   (1436 words)

  
 Compare Prices: The Encyclopedia of Mass Murder: A Chillling Collection of Mass Murder Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Encyclopedia of Mass Murder: A Chillling Collection of Mass Murder Cases Encyclopedia of Mass Murder: A Chillling Collection of Mass Murder Cases by: Brian Lane.
The Encyclopedia of Mass Murder: A Chillling Collection of Mass Murder Cases By Brian Lane, Wilfred Gregg The Encyclopedia of Mass Murder is a remarkable, revelatory exploration of the world's worst.
Encyclopedia of Mass Murder: A Chillling Collection of Mass Murder Cases by Brian Lane (Editor), Wilfred Gregg (Editor) Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Carroll and Graf Publishers (May 1, 2004) ISBN.
www.21planet.info /the-encyclopedia-of-mass-murde.1459664.html   (440 words)

  
 POWER, GENOCIDE, AND MASS MURDER
This is a report of research that began in 1986 on genocide and mass murder (called democide) in this century.
I am using this term descriptively in a well defined sense, as the intentional killing of an unarmed and nonphysically threatening person, or the responsibility for a person's death such that it is as though intended (as deaths from overwork and deprivation in forced labor camps or on plantations).
This democide by the post-World War II Polish government was in the former Eastern German territories seized by Poland, and primarily involved the outright murder of ethnic and Reich Germans living there or their death by starvation and deprivation before or after their expulsion from the territories.
www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/POWER.ART.HTM   (2269 words)

  
 Australian Memories Of The Holocaust
One of the central questions in any Holocaust study is 'When did the Nazis actually take the decision to kill all the Jews?' Many historians argue that the plan for murder was central to Nazi ideology from the beginning.
Later they were transported to specially-built killing centres where they were gassed in chambers and their bodies burned in crematoria.
Their murderers were doctors: physicians and psychiatrists, many of whom went on to run the killing centres for Jews at the concentration camps.
www.holocaust.com.au /mm/finalsolution.htm   (1329 words)

  
 MHL: Mass Murder
Still suspect by the police of her ex-husband’s murder, Elizabeth Halperin becomes involved with a real estate developer and several other odd characters intent on recovering millions of dollars of stolen investment money.
Retired physicist Gloria Lamerino, an advisor to the police on science matters, investigates the hit-and-run murder of a congresswoman involved in the disposition of America’s helium supplies.
Cook-housekeeper Blanche White investigates several murders and becomes involved in scandals in her employer’s household, as well as her own community.
www.mhl.org /read/lists/massmurder.htm   (741 words)

  
 The Mass Murderer Hit List
There are three types of mass murderers, the family annihilators, the paramilitary enthusiasts, and the disgruntled workers.
All mass murderers are listed according to the number of hits tallied in their fifteen minutes of homicidal fame.
Following their murderous outbreak schools throughout the nation have experience a rash of copycat threats leading to the closing of entire districts.
www.mayhem.net /Crime/murder1.html   (9876 words)

  
 Mass Murder in Aceh; A Call for Action
The military commander has called on the local population to take part in a mass murder campaign.
The bodies of people not known locally have been found in plantations and by rivers; villagers working on a river bank found eight bodies tied together, weighted down and drowned.
Since this cannot be done in Indonesia, an International Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity should be convened to hold the Suharto regime responsible for its campaign of death and mass intimidation in Aceh.
acehnet.tripod.com /murder.htm   (1157 words)

  
 A Networked World: Mass murder on an unimaginable scale
He used the phrase "Mass murder on an unimaginable scale" twice in less than a minute.
We have been introduced to a new expression in the mass media, it is liquid explosives to be delivered apparently in 1.25 litre drink bottles.
The phrase "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" set off the alarm bells in my head as well, but for different reasons.
www.kn.com.au /networks/2006/08/mass_murder_on_.html   (2223 words)

  
 Debunking 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Controlled Demolition Myths - Massive Conspiracy
They are lying to cover up this mass murder by the government or the building owner.
Many of these men and women come from the military, yet we are to believe they are so afraid they rather die in the government’s next mass murder than come out and expose this.
They don't want to waste time investigating the mass murder of their loved ones.
debunking911.com /massivect.htm   (1527 words)

  
 The NarcoSphere || Reporters' Notebooks
In the case of the House of Death mass murder, it appears that “mouse” has begun to roar.
But despite this wall of silence, the victims in the House of Death mass murder continue to reach out from the grave and bang on the door of justice.
Likewise, in the House of Death mass murder case, an informant was shown special consideration by Sutton’s office after a run-in with Border Patrol agents in New Mexico, recent documents uncovered by Narco News show.
narcosphere.narconews.com /notebook/billconroy   (3272 words)

  
 Digg - Athiesm Behind Mass Murder
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
None of the ideologies he blames for mass murder derives their fanaticism from atheism.
But of course they felt justified in their own manipulations of the masses by the same essentially “religious” ideological and psychological methods.
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 Mass Murder and Iraq by James Glaser and David Dieteman
When George Bush introduced this new term — "weapons of mass murder" — to describe nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, he could not have been any clearer about their intended use.
One might also have imagined that the American federal government, with its vast stockpiles of "mass murder" weapons, would plan for their disposal or destruction, now that their owner has clarified their murderous nature.
Some may contend that the term "mass murder" was merely a slip by the tongue-tied President Bush.
www.lewrockwell.com /glaser/glaser17.html   (500 words)

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