DECA ŽRTVE MASOVNIH UBISTAVA
CHILD VICTIMS OF MASS KILLING

Summary/Abstract: This paper will present an approach of parallel analysis of two basic categories of children as victims of mass murderers. The first and most numerous type of child victims are school-age, unrelated to the killer, who die in armed / bomb attacks to schools. Such attacks happen most often in America, sporadically in Europe, and in some Third World countries, mostly in Nigeria and Afghanistan. In Serbia, children may be killed in mass murders of family members, mostly primarily motivated by femicide. In most cases, they are related to the killer and / or the murdered, and they are mostly targeted because they were at the scene of the massacre. The innovativeness of our approach lies in the fact that these two categories of children victims of mass murder are rarely or almost nowhere placed on the same comparative level, because they are considered diametrically different. Thus the aim of this paper, is to start from the differences, in analyzing domestic and foreign cases of mass murders of children. Similarities which are to be pointed out of these two types can be found in hegemonic type of masculinity as profile character of a mass murderer of both types. The conclusion presents the reactions to the cases of mass murders of children in order to contribute to the consideration of possible forecasting and defense strategies. This fight is everywhere a permanent, which requires realism and constancy, determination and adequate measures.

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