List of massacres in Finland
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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Finland (numbers may be approximate):
Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
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Åbo Bloodbath | November 10, 1599 | Turku | 14 | |
Klaukkala axe murders | May 10, 1899 | Nurmijärvi | 7 | |
Officers' Swimming School [fi] | September 1917 | Viipuri | 20+ | Massacre of Kornilovite high-ranking officers by Bolshevism-supporting soldiers[1] |
Toijala executions | April 15, 1918 | Toijala | 100 | The Red forces killed about 100 members of the White Guard, bourgeois, civil servants and schoolchildren in the area[2] |
Toijala executions | April 25-May 3, 1918 | Toijala | 122 | |
Koria massacre | 1918 | Kouvola | 120 | |
Varkaus executions | Varkaus | 170-180 | ||
Suinula massacre | January 31, 1918 | Kangasala | 17 | Thirty seriously wounded. |
Vihti executions | February 1, 1918 | Vihti | 18 | |
Nurmijärvi murders | February 1, 1918 | Nurmijärvi | 4[3] | |
Pori lyceum massacre | February 6, 1918 | Pori | 11 | |
Lottery of Huruslahti | February 21, 1918 | Varkaus | 90 | |
Harmoinen sanatorium massacre | March 10, 1918 | Kuhmoinen | 13 | |
Koliahde massacre | March 10, 1918 | Noormarkku | 16 | |
Länkipohja massacre | March 16, 1918 | Jämsä | 80 | |
Kuurila train murders | April 19, 1918 | Hämeenlinna | 23 | |
Lappeenranta massacre | April 25, 1918 | Lappeenranta | 23 | |
Viipuri County Prison massacre | April 27–28, 1918 | Viipuri | 30 | |
Valkeakoski Women's Guard massacre | May 1, 1918 | Valkeakoski | 36 | |
Tampere executions | April–May, 1918 | Tampere | 600 | |
Vyborg massacre | April–June, 1918 | Viipuri | 400 | Massacre of ethnic Russians and foreigners |
Perttula executions | May 18–24, 1918 | Nurmijärvi | 21[3][4] | Seven of the victims were murdered on the eighteenth, five on the nineteenth, two on the twentieth, five on the twenty-first and one on the twenty-fourth. One of the victims, Kalle Fredrik Aaltio (b. December 20, 1882), was decapitated on May 19, 1918. As were three other individuals on May 21 of that same year. |
Västankvarn executions | May 2–26, 1918 | Ingå | 60+ | |
Karhiniemi axe murders | March 17, 1943 | Huittinen | 6 | |
Soso railway stop murders | April 3, 1953 | Muhos | 4 | |
Lake Bodom murders | June 5, 1960 | Espoo | 3 | 1 injured; perpetrator unknown |
Pihtipudas police killings | March 7, 1969 | Pihtipudas | 4 | |
Raumanmeri school shooting | January 24, 1989 | Rauma | 2 | |
Kotka murders | April 18–19, 1994 | Kotka | 3 | |
Helsinki Shooting Club killings | February 21, 1999 | Helsinki | 3 | 1 injured |
Myyrmanni bombing | October 11, 2002 | Vantaa | 7 | 159 injured |
Jokela school shooting | November 7, 2007 | Tuusula | 9 | 1 injured |
Kauhajoki school shooting | September 23, 2008 | Kauhajoki | 11 | 1 injured |
Sello mall shooting | December 31, 2009 | Espoo | 6 | |
Hyvinkää shooting | May 26, 2012 | Hyvinkää | 2 | 8 injured |
2017 Turku attack | August 18, 2017 | Turku | 2 | 8 injured + attacker injured |
See also
References
- ^ "Päivälleen sata vuotta sitten Suomessa äänestettiin historian tärkeimmissä vaaleissa – maata riivasi nälkä ja pelko". Yle. 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
- ^ "Toijalan teloitukset 1918 - tutustu tarkemmin Toijalaan". toijala.fi (in Finnish). 29 January 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
- ^ a b "War victims in Finland, 1914-22". Retrieved April 24, 2016.
- ^ "Nurmijärven muut muistomerkit; Nurmijarvi.fi" (in Finnish). Retrieved August 14, 2019.
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