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when Frankish Crusaders ran out of food after the Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them?
the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter is the latest of a four decade long series of massacres that has eliminated 97 percent of the Chadian elephant population of 300,000?

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Massacre may refer to:

List of events named massacres
Massacre, Dominica, a land on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean
Massacre (comics), a DC Comics villain
Massacre, a 1956 Western starring Dane Clark
Massacre, an Argentine hardcore punk band
Massacre (band), an American death metal band
Massacre (Fred Frith band), an experimental New York City band.
Massacre Records, a record label
The Massacre, rapper 50 Cent's second commercial album
The Massacre, a play by Elizabeth Inchbald

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MASSACRE, a wholesale indiscriminate killing of persons, and also, in a transferred sense, of animals. The word is adopted from the French; but its origin is obscure. The meaning and the old form macecle seem to point to it being a corruption of the Lat. macellum, butcher's shop or shambles, hence meat market; this is probably from the root mac-, seen in /Ikea - Oat, to fight, Aaxacpa, sword, and Lat. mactare, to sacrifice. Another derivation connects with the Old Low Ger. matsken, to cut in pieces; cf. mod. Ger. metzeln, to massacre.