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armenian genocide
The Armenian Genocide[7] (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն Hayots’ Ts’eghaspanut’yun), also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as the Great Crime (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն Medz Yeghern)[8][9] was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey. It took place during and after World War I and was implemented in two phases: -
holodomor
The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. During the approximate 100 day period from April 7, 1994 to mid-July, an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 Rwandans were killed,[1] constituting as much as 20% of the country's total population and 70% of the Tutsi then living in Rwanda. The genocide was planned by members of the core political elite known as the akazu, many of whom occupied positions at top levels of the national -
the holocause
To be sent to the right meant slave labor; to the left, the gas chamber. This image shows the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia, many of them from the Berehov ghetto. The photographer was Ernst Hofmann or Bernhard Walter of the SS. Image courtesy of Yad Vashem[1] -
bosnian genocide
The term Bosnian Genocide refers to either genocide at Srebrenica and Žepa[8] committed by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995 or the ethnic cleansing campaign throughout areas controlled by the Army of the Republika Srpska[9] that took place during the 1992–1995 Bosnian War.[10]
The events in Srebrenica in 1995 included the killing of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, as well as the mass expulsion of another 25,000–30,000 Bosnian Muslim civilians, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosn -
cambodian genocide
In Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979 the genocide of between one and a half to three million people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge (KR) regime led by Pol Pot.[1] The KR had planned to create a form of agrarian socialism which was founded on the ideals of Stalinism and Maoism. The KR policies of forced relocation of the population from urban centres, mass executions, use of forced labour and malnutrition led to the deaths of an estimated 25 per cent of the total population.[2][3] The genocide w -
darfurian genocide
The War in Darfur[12][13] is a major armed onslaught in the Darfur region of Sudan. It began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups took up arms against the Government of Sudan, which they accused of marginalizing Darfur's non-Arab population. The government responded to attacks by arming Janjaweed militias and carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arabs in Darfur. This resulted in the deaths of tens