In 2013, Aleppo province was engulfed in violence. The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and affiliated Shi’a militias executed a campaign of massacres the rural areas located on eastern fringes province. violence caused an exodus from this region, eventually dissipating local communities entirely. What can explain such extreme brutal political perpetrated at level east countryside throughout 2013? To fin...

On October 25, 2012 the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the InterAmerican Court” or “the Court”) issued a Judgment, whereby it declared that the Republic of El Salvador was internationally responsible for the human rights violations perpetrated by the Salvadorian Armed Forces in the massacres committed from December 11 to 13, 1981, in the village of El Mozote, the canton of L...

Several examples of genocide from Armenia, the Ukraine, and Rwanda, of systematic political slaughter (Cambodia), and of massacres in Nanking, My Lai, Viet Nam, and El Salvador are examined. Massacre typically occurs during wars, genocide, and political slaughter typically after a war has occurred and further conflict is feared. Political and historical factors shape the selection of a target g...