The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Finland (numbers may be approximate):
NameDateLocationDeathsNotesÅbo BloodbathTurku14Murder FridayHailuoto800About 200 Cossacks killed almost all the civilians on the island during the Great Wrath.Klaukkala axe murdersNurmijärvi7Viipuri20+Massacre of Kornilovite high-ranking officers by Bolshevism-supporting soldiersToijala100The Red forces killed about 100 members of the White Guard, bourgeois, civil servants and schoolchildren in the area–Toijala1221918Kouvola120Varkaus executionsVarkaus170–180Kangasala17Thirty seriously wounded.Vihti18Nurmijärvi murdersNurmijärvi4Pori11Lottery of HuruslahtiVarkaus9090 Red Guard prisoners of war were killed by the White GuardsHarmoinen sanatorium massacreKuhmoinen13Koliahde massacreNoormarkku16Jämsä80Hämeenlinna23Lappeenranta23–28, 1918Viipuri30Valkeakoski Women's Guard massacreValkeakoski36–TampereWhites executed hundreds of capitulated Reds. Vyborg massacre–Viipuri400Massacre of ethnic Russians and foreignersPerttula executions–24, 1918Nurmijärvi21Seven 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.–26, 1918Ingå60+Karhiniemi axe murdersHuittinen6Muhos4Lake Bodom murdersEspoo31 injured; perpetrator unknownPihtipudas4Raumanmeri school shootingRauma2Kotka murders–19, 1994Kotka3Helsinki Shooting Club killingsHelsinki31 injuredMyyrmanni bombingVantaa7159 injuredJokela school shootingTuusula91 injuredKauhajoki school shootingKauhajoki111 injuredSello mall shootingEspoo6Hyvinkää shootingHyvinkää28 injured2017 Turku attackTurku28 injured + attacker injured
See also List of massacres in the Finnish Civil War
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