Morality and moral systems; massacre as military norm - Mzilikazi and the Matabele; massacre by "consent" - mass killing as a sacrificial offering; the Greek experience - massacre as military postscript, massacre as political expedient; Roman slavery - massacre as social retribution, massacre as condign punishment; massacre as a spectator sport - the Roman games; massacre as succession device - Achaemenid Persia; massacre and counter-massacre - Turks, Greeks and Armenians; massacre as economic "necessity" - the Stalin era; massacre as fratricide - the Spanish Civil War; massacre as tactical exigency; massacre as a matter of policy - the SS at Lidice and Oradour; massacre by proxy - Vichy and the Jews; massacre as strategic extremity - the allied bombing offensive 1942-45; massacre and liberation - the colonialsituation, the colonial aftermath; aggression and moral responsibility. Appendix: massacre and the occult.
