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Armenian genocide
Armenian Genocide occured during 1915 and 1917. The Ottaman Empire was responsible for the deportation of 2 million people from their homes. 1.5 million of them which included men, women and children were murdered. 500,000 people were expelled from the Armenian homeland. -
the holocaust.
In the Holocaust almost 6000,000 Jews were killed by the Nazi government led by Adolf Hitler. This genocide was the most well planned genocide in entire 20th century. Adolf Hitler had blamed the Jewish people constantly for the Germany's defeat in the OWrld War I and also blamed them for being the reaon of economic hardships that occured in Germany. In the beginning Nazis were ordered to boycott the Jewish shops which later changed the attitude of the Nazi governemnt to eliminate all the Jews. -
cambodia
This genocide was caused by the Khmer Rouge a group in Cambodia an Asian country. The leader of Khmer Rouge was Polpot. His intention was to create a Communist pesant farming society which led to the deaths of almost 25 percent of the entire countries population because of starvation and executions and also sometimes due to over work. The total number of death toll in this genocide was 2000,000 -
serbia
The massacre that occurred in Srebrenica in July 1995 was the single worst atrocity committed in the former Yugoslavia during the wars of the 1990s and the worst massacre that occurred in Europe since the months after World War II. -
Rwanda
The genocide in Rwanada an African country started when the president of Rwanada who was a Hutu Mr.Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down above an airport named Kigali with rockets by a Tutsi rebel group which was headed by the current president of Rwanda Mr. Paul Kagame. Almost 800,000 people died in the genocide within just 100 days.
