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Armenian Massacre
The Turkish Government planned to massacre and expel the
Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during WW1. 1.5 million Armenians were killed. The Turkish leaders wanted to rid the Armenian population. Many Armenians were abducted, tortured and the ones that were not killed were sent to the desert to die of thirst and starvation. -
Soviet Purge
The Soviet Purge was a repression measure by the Soviet Union to remove the undesirable people. The repressed included peasants, former Red Army leaders and non-Soviet civilians. The government used surveilance techniques to spy on their own citizens. If someone was suspected to be a supporter of capitalism or supposedly wanted to put Stalin out of power they were executed or exiled. -
Rape of Nanjing
This is the brutal massacre of Chinese civilians. During this six week period Japanese soldiers brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of Chinese people. The Japanese took over Nanjing as a result. -
German Holocaust
When Adolf Hitler became dictator he targeted homosexuals, jewish people and communists to be sent to concentration camps and to be killed. Millions of people died and most of the camps were throughout Europe. Some in Poland, Russia and Germany. -
My Lai Massacre
During the Vietnam war US troops murdered hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the villages of My Lai and My Khe. Most of the victims were women, children and elderly men. Many of them were sexually assaulted and tortured. Between 347-504 people were massacred. -
Uganda under Idi Amin
During Idi Amins rule he banished Asians from his country and collapsed the wages by 90%. Also Indians and other nationalizations were expulsed. Government decisions were speratic and uninformed due to Amin's lack of knowledge about how to rule. Uganda was ruled under a militaristic dictatorship. Nobody knows how many people were actually killed in Uganda during this period but they do know between 100000 and 500000 people were killed -
Chile under Augusto Pinochet
Augusto Pinochet was elected as president of Chile after Salvador Allende was over thrown. His military dictatorship lasted up to 1990. Pinochets government would kill liberals or "leftists" that he believed were speaking out about his dictatorship. ?if these people were not killed they disappeared, by the end of 1973 the CIA found 40000 missing people being held in the Stadium. -
Pol Pot Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot was a Cambodian Communist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge. During his rule he imposed agrarian socialism which forced people living in urban areas to move to rural areas. Due to malnutrition, forced labor, and executions 26% or 1-3 million Cambodians died. The Khmer Rouge were the group of people who followed Pol Pot and supported him. -
Missing People under Juan Peron
This is a period of state terrorism and guerrila warfare in Argentina. Between 1975 and 78' 22000 people had disapeared or were killed . These people were leftwing activists and students who did not agree with the militarianist government put in place by Juan Peron. A group of mothers of missing people formed a group called Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. These mothers protested the dictatorship and searched for all of the people who were gone -
Iraq under Saddam Hussein
Iraq was known for there severe punishments and many human rights violations happened during Saddam Hussein rule. Secret police were used and torture was a very common form of punishment for the citizens of Iraq. Under his rule freedom of speech was forbidden, mass people were executed for speaking out. These executions wwere also very public. -
Somalia Civil War
In Somalia there is very few laws so human rights violations are very common. During the civil war there was corrupt police forces who killed and beat many civilians. Also, there is very few freedoms that the people have. There is no womens rights and child abuse is extremely common. Since Somalia is a very new country and are warring they are still trying to establish laws and regulations for the people. -
Sierra Leone Child Soldiers
Many children were taking at young ages, drugged, given guns, and brainwashed to kill. Children were taken by all sides during the Sierra Leone conflict. Girls were also recuited and subjected to sexual exploitation. Children were used for patrol purposes, attacking villiages, and guarding diamond fields. -
Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Serbs rose up against Bosnian Muslims during the 1992 genocide. Mass amounts of Muslims were killed during "ethnic cleansing campaign". In the end about 25,000 Muslim civilians over the course of 3 years. (1992-1995) -
Rwanada Genocide
The Rwanda Genocide was a mass slaughter in the African state Rwanda. About 500,000-1,000,000 people were killed. They were a group of Rebel Tutsi's killed by the Rwandan Army. They were murdered usually in there homes and neighborhoods usually by machetes. -
Darfur Conflict
There was a struggle of land in the western region of Sudan which created a conflict along tribal and ethnic lines. The conflict was between Arab tribes and rebel armies. The Sudanese government was also involved because they supplied money, but they said they did not support the Arab tribes. The United Nations says that 200,000 people have been killed so far.
