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At the same time, the term massacre is used more widely to refer to individual, civil, or military mass killings on smaller scales, but having distinct Political significance in shaping subsequent events, such as the Boston Massacre . Individual or small group acts of Murder may also be described as massacres for sensationalist or sentimental reasons, as in the case of some school shootings. Additionally, the word massacre is often used for political or Propaganda purposes, and the choice of whether to label an event a massacre may become a sensitive one; see, for example, the Kent State Shootings . Below is a list of incidents that either meet the criteria of resulting in large numbers of deliberate and direct civilian deaths in a single event, or that are commonly labelled as ''massacres'', though they may not be on the same scale. Generally, the list includes individual events only, but where such an event includes too many individual massacres to list separately (e.g. The Holocaust , 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. LIST Massacres in which 10,000 or more civilians were intentionally killed are listed in bold. Ancient and Middle Ages Modern State-sponsored Genocide Pogroms and religious massacres To be in this section, the primary motive for the massacre must have been ethnic or religious hatred. Massacres during armed conflicts To be a massacre, the event must fall outside the Laws Of War as framed at the time of the massacre. State-sponsored massacres or massacres by servants of the state during peacetime Politically-motivated non-governmental massacres Labour conflicts Criminal and non-political massacres See also School Massacre s and " Going Postal ". SEE ALSO
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