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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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Åbo Bloodbath | November 10, 1599 | Turku | 14 | ||||||
| Klaukkala axe murders | May 10, 1899 | Nurmijärvi | 7 | ||||||
| Officers' Swimming School | September 1917 | Viipuri | 20+ | Massacre of Kornilovite high-ranking officers by Bolshevism-supporting soldiers[1] | |||||
| Toijala executions | April 15, 1918 | Toijala | 100 | ||||||
| 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[2] | ||||||
| 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[2][3] | 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 | 2024 Viertola school shooting | April 2, 2024 | Vantaa | 1 | 2 injured |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Päivälleen sata vuotta sitten Suomessa äänestettiin historian tärkeimmissä vaaleissa – maata riivasi nälkä ja pelko". Yle. 2017-10-01. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
- ^ a b "War victims in Finland, 1914-22". Retrieved April 24, 2016.
- ^ "Nurmijärven muut muistomerkit; Nurmijarvi.fi" (in Finnish). Retrieved August 14, 2019.