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Jessica Fisher's Human Rights Timeline 5
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Armenian Massacre
1915-1916 in the Ottoman Empire. The artocities and the armenians were the people involved with the massacre. It was carried out by massive killings and abuse. Within this period 600,00 to 1.5 million approximately lost their lives. This event occured due to the ottoman empires military they forced the evacuation of the thousands of Armenians. -
Soviet Purges
1930-1939.The purge was motivated by desire of leadership to remove dissenters from the Party and what is considered a consolidate of authority to Joseph Stalin. Campaigns affected others of the society such as intelligentsia, peasants and kulaks. Campaigns of repression carried out against national minorities and social groups accused of acting against the Soviet state and the politics of the Communist Party which was first step toward terrorizing the entire population. -
Rape of Nanjing
1937-1938 Took place in China. The innocent Chienese civilians were murdered and had been raped by the soldiers of the imperial Japenese army. There had gendercides against the women and the men causing invasions of the forces and there was a barbaric treatment for the Chinese women. About a quarter million men were created as prisoners for the war and they wre murdered, burned or buried alive. 250,000 to 300,000 were killed within this period. -
German Holocaust
1939-1945 Took place in Germany. The Nazi's made laws against Jews living in Germany and they persecuted the Jewish community. They were discriminated against because of their religion which violated their right to practice their own religon. Approximately 11 million people were killed as a result of Nazi genocidal policy. -
South African Apartheid
1948-1994. Rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa had minority rules that were maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated by the National Party which was also in South West Africa and was administered by the League of Nations. Racial segragation was based on British and Dutch rule.Since blacks were suffering through correspondence the whites were killing millions of blacks in South Africa -
My Lai Massacre
Occured during the Vietnam War. Soldiers of the Charlie Company arrived in Vietnam on a mission to kill the 48th Viet Cong Battalion. They met no resistance in My Lai except civilians. They shot and killed 504 innocent Vietnamese civilians who were forcecd to line up in a ditch before being killed. Victims were between age 3 and 80. -
Uganda under Idi Amin
1971-1979. Idi Amin wanted all of Uganda’s economy in the hands of native Ugandans. He had expelled almost 80,000 Asians to leave the country and killed anyone that might be a threat to his reign. From 100,000 – 500,000 people killed based on this whole time period. He might have been on of the most notorious of all Africa's post-independence dictators and was ousted in1979 by Ugandan nationalists, which fled him into exile. -
Chile under Augusto Pinochet
1973-1976. General Augusto Pinochet took power supporting the bloody military. The takeover was really brutal causing 1,500 civilians were killed, 320 to 360 were executed, more than 13,500 Chilean citizens and several thousand foreigners were detained through mass arrests and sent to detention camps. Chile later was known as the systematic volations of human rights. -
Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge
1975-1979. Took place with in Cambodia. Pol Pot led the communist forces of Khmer Rouge into the capital city of Cambodia, which started a four year regime. While Pol Pot was at rule, he attacked minority ethnic groups and killed them. Within the four year period, approxamitely 1 million people were killed which was about 1/7 of the population. Most deaths were based on starvation, malnutrition, and mistreated and misdiagnosed illnesses, as well as 200,000 were executed. -
Iraq under Saddam Hussein
1979- early april 2003. Saddam created security forces through tight controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces he was widely condemned in the west for the brutality of his dictatorship. He ordered the invasion of Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War of 1991. Causing all conflicts within Iraq. Considering he caused the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites he was then captured was sentenced to death by hanging. -
Sierra Leone and the child soldiers
1991-2002Disarmament and demobilization of armed groups were declared.The Liberian conflicts and the conflict in Côte d’Ivoire were linked with operations across borders in Guinea. Governments and armed groups provided support to countries. Thousands of young fighters such as child soldiers were fighting for there lives. The populations was 5.5 million people and 2.7 million were under 18. -
Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
1991-1994.After the death of Josip Tito without his strong leadership, Yugoslavia quickly went into political and economic trouble.The Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, resulted in genocide committed by the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia.Slovenia and Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia resulting in civil war.Over 200,000 Muslim civilians were murdered, more than 20,000 were missing or feared dead, while 2,000,000 became refugees. -
Somalia Civil War
1991-2006. There had been no national government in Somalia. The north was peaceful until the interclan and interfactional fighting have flared up with hardly any warning. Kidnappings, murders and other threats to foreigners occur in many regions. approximatly 350,000 to 1,000,000 Somalis had died because of the conflict during this period. -
Rwanda Genocide
April 1994-July 1994 in Rwanda. The President was returning home to Tanzania when his plane was shot by a missile. The Hutus immediately blamed the Tutsis for the assassination and they began to slaughter the innocent Tutsis in Rwanda. Approxamitely 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed as a result of it. -
Darfur Conflict
2003-now. Two rebel groups in Darfur launched an attack on the Darfuri government. The government targeted small ethnic groups because that's where the rebels got their support. A series of military raids and fighting between the government and the rebels led to 300,000 innocent people losing their lives between 2003 and 2005. Roughly 4.7 million are still affected by the conflict today.
