Mass murder
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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). 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 mass murder, tragically.