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Armenian Massacre
During World War I, the Ottoman Turks alienated the allies with their policies towards minorities, especially the Armenians. In 1915 the government angrily reacted to an Armenian uprising. The uprising led to the genocide of over four hundred thousand Armenians. -
Soviet Purges
The soviet Purges was a ritual the communist party of the soviet union conducted in order to get rid of "undesirables". The cause of the purges isn't confirmed but it is believed Stalin started them due to his paranoia. The purges took place in Russia. People believe that Stalin caused the death of more than 100 million people. -
Rape of Nanjing
The Nanjing massacre was a mass murder and war rape that happened during the six weeks after Japan captured the city of Nanjing. During this widespread rape and looting occured, hundreds of thousands of Chinese men and women were murdered by Japanese soldiers. -
German Holocaust
The German holocaust was the genocide of the Jewish citizens living in Germany. The holocaust was led by Adolf Hitler. Hitler started the holocaust because he was anti-semetic. It was carried out by the Nazi's who used concentration camps to kill large groups of German Jews. -
South African Apartheid
The South African Apartheid was the segregation of African Americans politically, socially, economically and culturally. It was one of the few cases in which the minority ruled over the majority, as the white poplation was much smaller than the African American population. The Africans human rights were violated because they were treated disrepectfullyand denied their basic human rights. -
Missing People under Juan Peron in Argentina
The Dirty War was a period of terrorism in Argentina during the late 1970's. Victims of the terrorism included several thousand left-wing activists, Marxists, Peranists, Guerillas and other alleged sympathziers. Some of the ten thousand dissapeared were guerillas of the montonerous and the people's revolutionary army. -
Pol Pot Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge which was a communist guerilla organization that opposed the Cambodian government in the 1960's, starting a civil war in 1970, and eventually taking power in 1975. -
My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was a Vietnam mass murder between three hundred and fourty seven and five hundred and four unamed civilians in South Vietnam. On March 16th, the Charlie Company entered a Vietnamese village of My Lai and began killing innocent villagers. -
Uganda under Idi Amin
Idi Amin was the ruler of Uganda for eight years. During this time, Idi Amin was feared due to his role in the widespread killing, tourture and dispossession of multitudes of people. Idi gave etnic groups a few days to evacuate, those who did now evacuate were killed. Idis fatal mistake was evacuating the Indians and Muslims who were the working class, causing an economic collapse. -
Chile under Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet was the leader of Chile who had been noted for multiple human rights violations. Augusto commanded his soilders to murder and tourture his political opponents, as well as murder more than 30,000 innocent people. -
Iraq under Saddam Hussein
Suddam Hussein was the fith president of Iraq. He was Responsible for the many killings, torturings and other orderings of evacuation of the Kurdsin northern Iraq. The acts of violence were usually carried out by Suddam himself or his "dirty dozen" which was his small "mob". Most members of the dirty dozen had high military positions. -
Sierra Leone and child soldiers
The Sierra Leone war was a civil war made famous by the use of child soilders. The war began on March 23rd 199, when the R.U.F attempted to overthrow Joseph Momoh. The resulting war lasted for eleven years with 50,000 dead. People from captured towns were sent to concentration camps and children as young as seven became soilders. -
Somalia Civil War
The Somalia Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking placein Somalia. It beganin 1991 when a clan-based army ousted the nations long-standing military government. The human rights violations sudh as police blutality, child abuse, and sexist attitudes towards women are said to have caused the war. However during the civil war, these violations became even worse. -
Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Starting in April of 1992, people in Serbia decided it was time for an "ethnic cleanse" and began removing all bosnian Muslims, known as Bosnials. In 1994 NATO began air strikes against Bosnia to stop the attacks. In december of 1995 the US led negotations, ending the conflicts in Bosnia. -
Rwanda Genocide
The Rwanda Genocide was a mass slaughter that took place in 1994. Over about five hundred thousand people were killed over a period over one hundred days, which was as much as twenty percent of the country's total population. -
Darfur Conflict
The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing military conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. The Darfur conflict involves two tribes, the Janjaweed, a milita Arabic group, and a large amount of rebel armies, including the Sudan liberation movement. According to Sudan's government, more than two and a half million people have been murdered due to the waring tribe fights.
