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Massacres

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  • The execution of rebels during the Rebellion in Naples and Sicily in 1647. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, with engraving by J. Aliamet, 1781.
  • The mass execution of 335 Moroccans by the Sultan Muley Abdallah: a group of men shackled by chains to each others' necks are beheaded outside the Emperor's tent in the presence of English slaves. Etching by T. Reynolds.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Two illustrations: the bodies of two children lying together in the Armenian cemetery awaiting burial, reproduction after Meisenbach and the bodies of two women killed by Turkish soldiers over whom a woman grieves. Wood-engraving after a photograph, ca. 1915.

    | Date: 1915 | Reference: 586420i
    • Pictures

    Visitors examining the dead in the Armenian cemetery two days after the massacres. Process print by Meisenbach ca. 1915.

    | Date: 1915 | Reference: 586417i
    • Books

    Katyn et la Suisse : experts et expertises médicales dans les crises humanitaires 1920-2007 = Katyn and Switzerland : forensic investigators and investigations in humanitarian crises 1920-2007 / edité par Delphine Debons, Antoine Fleury, Jean-François Pitteloud.

    | Date: 2009
    • Pictures

    The massacre of Huguenots in a barn at Wassy: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or forced to jump off the roof. Lithograph by N. Rolin, 1843, after J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

    Perrissin, J. (Jean), 1536?-1611? | Date: [1843] | Reference: 2897079i
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    The mass execution of 335 Moroccans by the Sultan Muley Abdallah: a group of men shackled by chains to each others' necks are beheaded outside the Emperor's tent in the presence of English slaves. Etching by T. Reynolds.

    | Date: [1768] | Reference: 43037i
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