the campbell's definately did the massacreering.hack spit. they were in the employ of english politicians who were trying to end highland resistance to english domination of scotland. the macdonald's of glencoe--the laird and family was maciain--my actual clan. were the war hawks of the north so the idea was to squash the radicals and the waverers would fall in line.this was part of the long term ethnic cleansing done by the english in the celtic isles