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massacre
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thumb|right|upright=1.0|Le Massacre de Scio ("The Chios massacre"), a 1824 painting by [[Eugène Delacroix depicting the massacre of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822]]
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people, often civilians, in a brutal or violent way. Historical massacres like the one depicted in Delacroix's 1824 painting—where Ottoman troops killed Greeks on the island of Chios in 1822—are remembered and studied because they represent significant moments of violence that shaped nations and are considered important to understand as part of history.
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thumb|right|upright=1.0|Le Massacre de Scio ("The Chios massacre"), a 1824 painting by [[Eugène Delacroix depicting the massacre of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822]]
A massacre is an event of killing defenseless human beings or other animals. It is generally used to describe a targeted mass killing of civilians by an armed group. It can also be used figuratively to refer to a one-sided exchange between armed groups. The word is a loan of a French term for "butchery" or "carnage". Other terms with overlapping scope include war crime, pogrom, mass killing, mass murder, and extrajudicial killing.