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Mass murder is the killing of large numbers of innocent people. Sometimes the word "[[genocide]]" is used, in the case of killing all those of a particular ethnic group (see also [[democide]], or [[ethnocide]] if the grouping is based on religion ).

Mass murder is the killing of large numbers of innocent people. Sometimes the word "[[genocide]]" is used, in the case of killing all those of a particular ethnic group (see also [[democide]], or [[ethnocide]] if the grouping is based on religion).  According to Black's Law Dictionary, the term was popularized by the 1948 "Genocide Convention" of the United Nations, to deal with the special problems posed by the Holocaust, and international wishes to prevent a recurrence of the same.

The twentieth century has seen some of the greatest examples of this.  

The twentieth century has seen some of the greatest examples of mass murder, tragically.

==External links==

==External links==

*[http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:IyC57WQ2TqoJ:www.lonympics.co.uk/Worstregimesofthe20thcentury.htm+list+of+the+TOP+10+most+evil+regimes+of+the+20th+Century+in+terms+of+deaths&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a 10 most evil regimes of the 20th Century in terms of deaths]

*[http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:IyC57WQ2TqoJ:www.lonympics.co.uk/Worstregimesofthe20thcentury.htm+list+of+the+TOP+10+most+evil+regimes+of+the+20th+Century+in+terms+of+deaths&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a 10 most evil regimes of the 20th Century in terms of deaths]

*[http://net-burst.net/hot/war.htm Killing done in the name of secular ideologies]

*[http://net-burst.net/hot/war.htm Killing done in the name of secular ideologies]