Massacre at Terrina Square

The massacre at Terrina Square was an event that occurred on the planet Quellor during the Galactic Civil War.

Prelude
In the aftermath of the Battle of Yavin, the planet Quellor became the site of peaceful, anti-Imperial rallies.

At one such rally in Terrina Square, hundreds of participants from many species came together to protest reported Imperial atrocities in the Outer Rim Territories, as well as to call for the banning of superweapons similar to the Death Star.

The massacre
Moff Toggan, the governor of Quellor, called up a legion of stormtroopers to watch over the crowd and maintain order. Though Moff Toggan specifically ordered his troops to hold their fire unless ordered otherwise, the stormtroopers opened fire on the protesters when they burned an effigy of Emperor Palpatine.

Whether they acted on their own, or on orders from someone with more clout than the Moff, the result was the same. The stormtroopers waded into the crowd and used their blasters to clear a path toward the burning effigy.

Aftermath
At the end of the day, the massacre at Terrina Square became big news for about thirty minutes, until the COMPNOR censored all the regulated media outlets.