Massacres of protesters in Asia

events in Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1989

1980 anti-government uprising in South Korea

bombing of Ankara Central railway station on October 10 2015

1947 uprising in Taiwan

Since the beginning of the 2025–26 Iranian protests, the Iranian government has perpetrated widespread massacres of civilians, deploying both its own security forces and importing foreign militias to suppress public dissent nationwide. As of 25 January 2026, the total death toll estimates ranged from 6,488 people to upwards of ~36,500 people, including 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel, making these among the largest massacres in the modern history of Iran.

Korean national movement against Japanese occupation

popular uprising in South Korea in April 1960 by labor and student groups, precipitated by the killing of a high school student by a tear-gas shell in March; led to the resignation of the president S. Rhee and the transition to the Second Republic

violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan

state-sponsored mass executions of political prisoners in Iran

anti-de-Stalinization protests in the Georgian SSR

early stage of protests in 2011

1976 massacre in Thailand

Massacre in Kazakhstan

1991 massacre in East Timor

1963 shootings of Buddhist civilians in South Vietnam

2011 Syrian military operation in the Syrian city of Daraa

shooting of striking miners in northeast Siberia on 17 April 1912

massacre in Mahshahr, Iran on November 2019

kurdish uprising in Syria

part of Reza Khan modernizing & unveiling women

killings by state security forces in Iran

series of attacks on Buddhist pagodas in South Vietnam on 21 August 1963 by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces and combat police, ordered by Ngô Đình Nhu

1948 protests in Baghdad, Iraq

Part of the South Thailand insurgency

one of the defining moments of the independence movement in British India

shootings of a student protest in Jakarta, Indonesia on 12 May 1998

1948 mass shooting by police in present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

1946 massacre