mass murder killing of multiple persons mass killing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killing https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56514238 A killing of multiple members of a group without the intention of eliminating the entire group; also, killing large numbers of people without precise group membership definitions. This term is used by a number of genocide scholars because the term "genocide" (its strict definition) does not cover mass killing events when no specific ethnic or religious group is targeted, and when perpetrators are not intended to eliminate of the whole group or its significant part. Under the strictest definition, incidents of non-combat killing of 50,000 people or more. mass killings massacre mass violence