Genocide

By anthoulab

  • Congo

    Congo
    Genocide Intervention: Why is it an area of concern?-5-21 million people killed.
    -King Leopold II of Belgium controlled Congo.
    Civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are victims of mass killings, torture and rape at the hands of armed groups operating in the provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu and Orientale.

  • Armenia

    Armenia
    Turkey's Guilty Conscience Ottoman Turkish Leader, “Kill every Armenian women, child and man without concern for anything”.
    - Turkish Ottoman Empire massacred, deported and raped the entire Armenian population in 1915 - 1918.
    - The Committee of Union and Progress, also known as the Young Turks was initiated the action. 1.5 million Armenians perished during the offensive attack.
    - Evidence from countless scholars and testimonies prove that the Ottoman Empire did deliberately commit genocide on the Armenian population.

  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking
    Scarred by history: The Rape of Nanjing
    "We were hungry for women! If you mess with a woman, kill her afterwards, but don't use bayonets or rifle fire.”- Kenzo Okamoto, Japanese soldier.
    - The Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city, Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 out of 600,000 civilians and soldiers in the city.
    - More than 20,000 females were gang-raped by Japanese soldiers, then stabbed to death.

  • Holocaust

    Holocaust
    Never Again?“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”- Adolf Hitler
    The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior." The Jews were sent to concentration camps to be exterminated or slaved. 6 mill Jews and 5 mill others died.

  • Cambodia

    Cambodia
    Scream Bloody Murder: Cambodia
    - Under Pol Pot's leadership, within days of overthrowing the government, the Khmer Rouge embarked on an organised mission. They ruthlessly imposed an extremist plan to reconstruct on the communist model of Mao. Under threat of death, people were forced to leave. The ill, disabled, old and young were driven out, regardless of their physical condition. Approx. 1-3 million killed.

  • Bosnia

    Bosnia
    Seven Convicted over 1995 Srebrenica- When Bosnian Muslims declared independence, Yugoslav president Slobadan Milosevic attacked to Serbian minorities. As the Serbian force advanced, they began to systematically eliminate Muslims and Muslim villages. Men were tortured and the women were raped. Over 200,000 Muslim civilians were murdered and 2,000,000 fled as refugees before NATO forces tried to suppress the genocide.

  • Rwanda

    Rwanda
    Rwanda arrests two high-ranking military officers - 500,000-1 million killed, 1.5-2 million refugees
    - 2 main ethnic groups, the Hutu (85-90%) and the Tutsis (10-15%) The Tutsis were the ruling class. The Hutu majority gained power, oppressing the Tutsis, many who fled and formed a rebel guerrilla army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The Tutsi rebels invaded Rwanda and forced the Hutu President to accept a power-sharing agreement.
    - The Hutus began to kill, while the world did nothing. The Tutsi rebels defeated the Hutus, stopping the genocide.

  • Uganda

    Uganda
    • The horrific Ugandan genocide continued after the end of the Idi Amin regime, when the Lord's Resistance Army began violent acts on the Acholi tribe.
    • The people of Uganda have encountered violations of human rights and peace right from the time of its independence.
    • Approx. 300 000 civialians died.

  • Iraq

    Iraq
    Killing of Iraq Kurds 'genocide'“The court has no other conclusion than that these attacks were committed with the intent to destroy the Kurdish population of Iraq”. – Court Ruling.
    - In 2003, George Bush Junior inflicted further harm on the people of Iraq and on a country almost bombed back into pre-industrial times by another war. As of today, Iraq has suffered an additional 1 million casualties and 4 million refugees.

  • Darfur, Sudan

    Darfur, Sudan
    Timeline: Sudan 2 million killed, 4-5 million displaced
    - In 2003, two Darfur rebel movements- the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)- took up arms against the Sudanese government, causing the Sudanese government lead by Omar Al- Bashir, to defensively attack these rebel groups by using their mercenary police force, Janjaweed. However, these men slaughtered, raped and burnt innocent civilians.