Great Pokémon Holocaust

The Great Pokémon Holocaust occurred when the creature known as Mewsevenmillionthreehundredthousandtwo went batshit crazy and started tearing Coruscant a new biologically-superfluous orifice. Thousands were killed by the marauding beast, while thousands more were killed by the only thing that could put an end to the creature, an orbital bombardment from a Star Destroyer. Emperor Palpatine used a mind trick to make everyone on the planet forget that it had happened, but after the liberation by the New Republic, Luke Skywalker undid the trick.

To commemorate the lives lost and warn against the fallacy of experimenting on Pokémon, the New Republic erected a memorial statue at the site of the bombardment.