These forces murdered Selim's enlightened governor, ending the best rule this province had had in the last 100 years.

Even as negotiators worked toward a cease-fire, Serbian forces reportedly murdered hundreds of civilians in northwest Bosnia.

In just six weeks, Japanese forces murdered between 100,000 and 300,000 people in Nanking, raping 20,000 of their victims.

Officials stressed that while Haitian soldiers had used violence against crowds, Father Aristide's forces had also used force and murdered.

His forces murdered False Dimitri soon after his marriage in the Moscow Kremlin, together with many of his supporters, who were brutally massacred.

Within three and half years (from Sept 1931 to March 1935), Japanese regular forces and police murdered 4520 people.

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, German forces on 11 September murdered 21 villagers.

Apart from the victims of battles, the German forces (both SS and the regular Wehrmacht) murdered several thousand Polish civilians.

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, German forces on 3 September murdered 26 Poles.

During the German Invasion of Poland in 1939, German forces on 30 September murdered 11 people in the village.