Peterloo Massacre a meeting in Manchester on 2 August 1819. Johnson wrote: Unknown to Johnson and Hunt, the letter was intercepted by government spies and copied before being sent to its destination. The contents were interpreted to mean that an insurrection was being planned, and the government responded by ordering the 15th Hussars to Manchester. The mass public meeting planned for 2 August was delayed until 9 August. The "Manchester Observer" reported it was called "to take into consideration the most speedy and effectual mode of obtaining Radical reform in the Common House of Parliament" and "to consider the propriety of the
Massacre in Korea Massacre in Korea Massacre in Korea is an expressionistic painting completed on January 18, 1951, by Pablo Picasso; it criticizes United States intervention in the Korean War. It may depict an event such as the No Gun Ri Massacre in July 1950 when an undetermined number of South Korean refugees were killed by U.S. forces, or the same year, the Sinchon Massacre, an alleged mass killing carried out in the county of Sinchon, South Hwanghae Province, North Korea. "Massacre in Korea" depicts civilians being killed by anti-communist forces. The art critic Kirsten Hoving Keen says that it is "inspired by