slaughter is the action of killing several people at the same time, A way of cruel and brutal murder, also characterized as a massacre.
In the original meaning, slaughter means the quartering and killing of pigs and cattle, mainly the process of “curing” or “salting” pork.
The act of killing these animals was always very violent, as they were dismembered and cut into pieces.
The murders of many people together cruelly recalled the bloody scene of the slaughter of the animals, causing the word slaughter to begin to be used to classify this type of crime.
Etymologically, the term “slaughter” originated from Vulgar Latin siccine, which means “dried meat”.
Among some of the most common synonyms for slaughter, the following stand out: carnage, killing, slaughter, hecatomb and shooting.
Candelaria slaughter
The Candelária massacre was a crime that shocked Brazil in 1993, when eight homeless teenagers were murdered by military police near the Church of Candelária, in Rio de Janeiro.
The dead youths were between 19 and 11 years old.
Carandiru slaughter
The Carandiru massacre or massacre of the São Paulo House of Detention, as it was also known, was the intervention of the military police to control a rebellion of prisoners, which ended killing 111 inmates.
See also the meaning of genocide.
