Genocide: Historical Timeline

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    Canadian Aboriginals Genocide

    Residential schools were established in 1831 and the last school was dismantled in 1996.
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    Pontiac Greek Genocide

    Between 1914-1923 the tragic massacre, about 353,000 Pontic Greeks were killed, and 1.5 million people were forced to leave their homes.
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    Assyrian Genocide

    During 1914-1920 the extermination of Assyrian people was organized by Ottoman & Kurdish forces under the rule of the Young Turks.
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    Armenian Genocide

    World War I begins in 1914
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    Holocaust Genocide

    In 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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    Cambodia Genocide

    A massive United States bombing campaign against the Khmer Rouge devastated rural Cambodia.
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    Uganda Genocide

    1971- Idi Amin overthrows Obote.
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    Bosnia Genocide

    The Bosnian War started in 1991 with the arming of Bosnian Serbs by the Yugoslavian Army. The war ended in 1995 after an agreement.
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    Rwanda Genocide

    President Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira are assassinated as their aircraft is shot down approaching Kigali. The incident sparks the Rwandan genocide.
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    Sudan, Darfur

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    Iraq Genocide

    A Coalition Provisional Authority under American leadership began the initial transition between 2003 to 2007, which was the first phase. By 2011, the Baghdad government agreed to integrate Sunni tribes into the Iraqi security forces to limit the religious rift, while the United States withdrew from Iraq.
  • Ukraine

    Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine in a steep escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian war.