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Congo Free State
Under King Leopold's sole reign over the congo free state Africans were harshly abused with not filling the rubber quota with their hands being chopped off. "The white officer in command ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades ... and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross." -
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Armenia
The Turkish government implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between one and one and a half million -
Rape of Nanking
After the falling of Nanking, the captial of the Republic of China fell to Japanese soldiers, seven weeks of hell known as the Rape of Nanking took place with over 300,000 Chinese citizens being killed while 80,000 women were raped,mutilated and killed -
Holocaust
In a villa in Berlin senior members of the Nazi party met to discuss the final solution, this final solution was the plan for extermination of Jews in Europe. While many dates are for the holocaust many historians view the Wannsee Conference as the starting point to the holocaust. -
Uganda
Idi Amin when he overthrew a corrupt government was seen as leader for the people. Within his short reign of power Idi Amin launched a genocide killing over 300,000 of his own people. Many were of enthic tribal back ground. -
Cambodia
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge swept into power overthrowing the monarchy and creating a Chinese backed communist government. In his promise he urged for a new, cleaner Cambodia. What we really meant was a Cambodia made up of only ethnic Cambodians. Within four years 2.5 million people had been photograped and slaughtered. -
Iraq
The man was known as Chemical Ali, a cousin of Saddam Hussein to iraqi Kurds for good reason. During Operation Anfal the iraqi government launched chemcial attacks against Kurdish villiages killing over 182,000 citizens. -
Rwanda
The world promised never again but within one hundred days in 1994 over 800,000 Tutis and moderate Hutus were killed by extremist Hutu groups within the country. While Canadian general Roméo Dallaire struggled with the international community to act, the Interahamwe continued their slaughter -
Bosnia
For years ethnic tension mounted between the Serbs, Croats and the Bosnians until April 1, 1992 when war broke out. During that period thousands of Muslim men and boys in Bosnia were slaughtered by Serb militia and armed forces. At least 33,000 were slaughtered in the town of Srebrenica -
Darfur
The Janjaweed an armed militia funded by the government continues to strike terror in the Darfur region. In this genocide over 300,000 Black Africans have been slaughtered and 2,000,000 have fled to Chad away from the Arab-African militia and government. In the first genocide of the 21st century we continue to ignore it.
