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Dennis Z Armenian Massaure
The Armenian Massacure took place in Republic of Turkey. The "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire were violent. The Armenians were the victims of the Ottoman Turks
Pontic Greeks and Assyrians were also targeted by the Ottoman Turks. The Armenians were torcherd, and did not hace the rights to live.Turks and Armenians were living harmoniously for years, but the Ottoman Empire was collapsing, and everyone was trying to take a piece. It affected where people lived -
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge
The Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge took place in Cambodia. the Vietnamise, Indochinese, and the French were involved. Pol Pot wanted to keep ultimat power, His vision was to trasform his country into farming. He killed over 1 milllion. Anyone thought to be an intellectual of any sort was killed. Often people were condemned for wearing glasses or knowing a foreign language. He began a radical experiment to create an agrarian utopia. the widespread income disparity which affects most Cambodian citizens -
Soviet Purges
Stalin instituted a campaign against alleged enemies of his regime called the Great Purge in which hundreds of thousands were executed. Major figures in the Communist Party such as the old Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, and several Red Army leaders were killed after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the goverment and Stalin. -
Rape of Nanjing
Japanese troops captured the chinese city of Nanjing and embarked on a campaign of murder, rape, and looting. During this horrific event, 250,000 to 300,000 people were killed. Many of those people were women and children. There was widespread accounts of civilians being hacked to death. Thousands of dead bodies were buried in ditches. This event happend because the Japanese army expected an easy victory over the chinese army. The Japanese army was wrong. It turned out to be a very horrific war. -
German Holocaust
During World War II, the German Holocaust took place in Germany and other countries that the Nazis were in control of. The Nazis and the Jews as well as gypsies, homosexuals, and other minority groups were persecuted in the German Holocaust. The Holocaust happened because the Nazis hated the Jews so much and they thought that they were better than the Jews which means they were racist. 6 million jews were killed. people were forced out of there homes and into concentration camps. -
My Lai Massacre
The angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for, search and destroy, and you've got it," said their superior officers. A short time later the killing began. s the "search and destroy" mission unfolded, it soon degenerated into the massacre of over 300 apparently unarmed civilians including women, children, and the elderly. Calley ordered his men to enter the village firing, -
Uganda under Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s – 16 August 2003) was the third President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. The Ugandan economy was devastated by Amin's policies, including the expulsion of Asians, the nationalisation of businesses and industry, and the expansion of the public sector. The real value of salaries and wages collapsed by 90% in less than a decade. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown; estimates from international observers and human rights groups range from 100. -
Chile under Augusto Pinochet
A brutal dictator who repressed and reshaped Chile for nearly two decades and became a notorious symbol of human rights abuse and corruption elevated himself to President in 1974 after barging his way into power into 1973 by initially leading a four man junta in the 1973 military coup. He appointed military officers as mayors of towns and cities throughout Chile. Retired military personnel were named rectors of universities, The press was censored, and labor strikes and unions were banned. -
Missing people during The Dirty War in Argentina
The National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) researched and recorded, case by case, the "disappearance" of about 9,000 persons. Though the Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo or Abuelas) had records of 172 children who disappeared together with their parents or were born at the numerous concentration camps and had not been returned to their families. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo believe up to 500 grandchildren were stolen. -
Iraq under Saddam Hussein
There was large scale ethnic cleaning that killed at-least 180,000 Kurds between 1983 and 1988. Minority Kurds, who waged a low-level war for independence throughout Iraq's modern history, were heavily persecuted under Saddam. As a leader he was known to be ruthless and thuggish. According to published accounts, Saddam eliminated anyone who opposed him and carried out mass executions of people who could pose a threat to his regime. -
Somalia Civil War
The Somalia Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia. This event happened because of coalition of clan-based armed opposition groups ousted the nation's long-standing military gov. There is no national gov. in Somalia. While parts of the north have been relatively peaceful, including much of the self-declared "Republic of Somaliland," interclan and interfactional fighting have flared up with little warning, An estimated 350,000 to 1,000,000 Somalis had died. -
Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Many different ethnic and religious groups had resided together for 40 years under Yugoslavia’s repressive communist gov., this changed when the country began to collapse during the fall of communism in the early 1990s. April 1992, Serbia set out to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnian territory by systematically removing all Bosnian Muslims, known as Bosniaks. This event happened because too many people wanted the same land that someone else already claimed. 25,000-30,000 people died during this event. -
Rwanda Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter that took place in 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira on April 6 through mid-July) over 500,000 people were killed, According to a Human Rights Watch estimate. Estimates of the death toll have ranged from 500,000–1,000,000, or as much as 20% of the country's total population. It was the culmination of longstanding ethnic. -
Sierra Leone and the Child Soldiers
Many of these children are "invisible children," orphaned by AIDS, violence, and war. These children are as young as 7 years old and are forced into conflict due to poverty, Sold by their parents, kidnapped, or tricked into joining the ranks of rebel groups in Africa. Between 2001 and 2003, children served in armed rebel groups -
Darfur Conflict
The Darfur conflict was a civil war/guerilla conflict centered on the Darfur region of Sudan. The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice & Equality Movement (JEM) groups in Darfur took up arms, accusing the Sudanese government of oppresing non-Arab Sudanese in favor of Sudanese Arabs. One side was composed mainly of the official Sudanese military and police. During this event, several 100,000 of people died. It started because wars were waged among several nations. -
South African Apartheid
A system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained.
