École Polytechnique Massacre 1989

[Leafstamp]

Remembering the young women killed simply for being women.

Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student
Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student
Maud Haviernick (born 1960), materials engineering student
Maryse Laganière (born 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department
Maryse Leclair (born 1966), materials engineering student
Anne-Marie Lemay (born 1967), mechanical engineering student
Sonia Pelletier (born 1961), mechanical engineering student
Michèle Richard (born 1968), materials engineering student
Annie St-Arneault (born 1966), mechanical engineering student
Annie Turcotte (born 1969), materials engineering student
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (born 1958), nursing student

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Thank you for sharing their names OP.

These women were killed for being women.

The men in the classroom were allowed to leave and the women were slaughtered.

Horrific.

RIP. What a terrible waste of life.

Had never heard of this! Will look it up.

Awful.

RIP 💐

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RIP

They deserve a fitting tribute that respects why they murdered.

I’d not heard of this before (was living in quite a remote place at the time). So shocking. I was an engineering student not long before this happened.

Truly awful. RIP

Rest in peace!

They do indeed deserve a fitting tribute which respects the heinous nature of the crime committed. RIP

I hadn't heard of this massacre until a few years' ago. I vividly remember the Hungerford Massacre when it happened and was shocked to realise this happened two years after Hungerford.

I simply don't think it got a huge amount of publicity globally at the time. And I can only assume it was because all the victims were women.

Thanks @Leafstamp. It's important that we remember these women

I can’t believe this was so long ago. I was doing my Masters and it seems like only yesterday. RIP all.

Thank you OP for remembering these women & for highlighting this. I had never heard of this before

I simply don't think it got a huge amount of publicity globally at the time. And I can only assume it was because all the victims were women.

This. RIP

I always think about these women and what they would have become, how some of them might have become big names in engineering and paved the way for other women in STEM.

He got exactly what he wanted.

When men cry misandry and accuse feminists of man-hating, I always refer to this incident. I say “when a woman walks into a classroom, lines up all the men and shoots them, then talk to me about misandry”.

What they must have felt in their last moments, because of that fucking coward.