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Alex Relyea's Human Rights Timeline
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Armenian Massacre
The Turks were planning to destroy the Russian Caucasus Army in a battle, but the Russian troops destroyed the Turkish troops. The Minister of War, Enver Pasha, blamed the Armenians living in that area for helping the Russians. The Central Committee of the Young Turk Party planned the massacre. Armenians were put in concentration camps in the middle of the desert and died from lack of food and water. Soldier and leaders were disarmed and killed. Between 1 and 1.5 million people were killed. -
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot led the forces of Khmer Rouge into the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge were communists and they saw cities as the heart of capitalism so they wanted to eleminate them. Peole were executed if they were educated, wealthy, and because of their occupation. Ex soldiers and anyone suspected of disloyalty to Pol Pot were also killed. Half of the Chinese living in Cambodia were killed. -
German Holocaust
It was during World War II in concentration camps located in Europe. The Germans persecuted European Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other minority groups. The Nazis put them in concentration camps and tortured and killed them. Adolf Hitler became the leader of The Nazis. The Nazis believed that they were superior to others and anti-Semetic laws discriminated against others. About 11 million people were killed. -
Soviet Purges
The Great Purge was a number of repressive measures in the Soviet Union during the 1930's. It involved a purge of the Communist party and governement officials, repression of peasants, and Red Army Leadership. Joseph Stalin was one of the main leaders of the political purge. He killed thousands of people who he thought were suspicious of opposing the government. -
Rape of Nanjing
The Japanese Imperial Army marched to Nanjing. The soldiers raped women from ages under 8 to over 70. The Chinese and Japanese were in a war that the Japanese were confident that they would win. However, the Chinese were stronger than the Japanese expected, which infuriated the Japanese. After finally winning they marched to Nanjing. 300,000 people were murdered. -
South African Apartheid
This was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments. During this time the majority black inhabitants of South Africa had less rights then the white supremacy living in South Africa. The racial segregation has roots all the way back to when Southern African was under the rule of Britan. New legislation classified people as "Native" "White "Colored" or "Asian." residential areas were segregated, sometimes by forced removals. -
My Lai Massacre
In the weeks preceding the My Lai Massacre, many members of the Charlie Company were killed. On March 16, 1968, in the village of My Lai in Vietnam, the Charlie Company mass murdered 347-504 unarmed civilans, mostly woman, childern and elderly people. They went into My Lai ready for engagement. -
Uganda under Idi Armin
When Obote was president of Uganda he tempted to rid the potentail threat of Idi Armin. But Amin struck back first and gathered an army of pro-Armin men. They attacked and shot a mass amount of Acholi and Langi troops who he believed were pro-Obote. -
Missing People during the dirty war in Argentina
A military junta led by Gen Jorge Videla seized power because of a period of instability and violence after the death of President Juan Peron. The government wanted to crack down on people that they thought were challenging authority. Between 10,000 to 30,000 people were kidnapped and killed. -
Iraq under Saddam Hussein
In 1979 Saddam Hussein came to power. During his rule the government was known for many human rights violations. To maintain controle the Ba'athist government used secret police, torture, mass murder, rape, deportation, forced disapperances, assassinations, chemical warfare, and destrution of southern Iraq's marshes. The number of deaths is not certin but some estamate it to be about 654,965 deaths. -
Chile under Augusto Pinochet
Pinochet joined a coup d'etat which overthrew the president of Chile (Allende). Pinochets regime was responsible for violations of human rights during its reign including murder and torture of political opponents. Pinochets government killed at least 3,197 people and tortured about 29,000 people. Many of the victims were Marxist geurilla's and Chile people. -
Somalia Civil War
The Somalia Civil War is an on going war. It began in 1991, when a coalition of clan-based armed opposition groups got rid of the nation's long-standing military government. Since 1991, an estimated 350,000 to 1,000,000 Somalis had died because of the conflict. During this time of conflict their were many sturgles for power. -
Sierra Leone and the child soldiers
The Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone forced children to join the army and fight. Children who refused to fight, kill, or showed weakness were killed. About 10,000 children were forced to fight -
Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This was a time of "Ethinic Cleansing Campaign" during the Bosnian War. The campaign was controlled by the VRS, and they targeted Bosnian Muslims and Croats. The Ethnic Cleansing Campaign included unlawful confinement, rape, murder, sexual assault, torture, beating, and robbery. Around 25,000-30,000 people were affected by this. -
Rwanda Genocide
When the president of Rwanda was returning from Tanzania, his plane was shot over the capital city of Kigali and all on board died. The Hutus took over the government and blamed the Tutsis and started the genocide. Tutsis and Hutu moderates were tortured and killed and thousands of women were raped. 800,000 people were killed. -
Darfur Conflict
The struggle for land and power in the western Sudanese region of Darfur led to violence between the government forces and rebel groups protesting the unfair treatment towards the region's black Africans. Arab militias supported by the government used policies of ethinic cleaning, including forced starvation and displacement, murder, torture, and rape. Hundreds of thousands of people died and 2 million people were expelled from their homes.
