Genocides

       After the Holocaust, the United Nations created a new term — genocide — and defined it as any of the following actions committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Past genocides

  1. 1915 Armenia- In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government set in motion a plan to expel and massacre Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Though reports vary, most sources agree that there were about 2 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the time of the massacre. By the early 1920s, when the massacres and deportations finally ended, some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead, with many more forcibly removed from the country. Today, most historians call this event a genocide–a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate an entire people. However, the Turkish government does not acknowledge the enormity or scope of these events. Despite pressure from Armenians and social justice advocates throughout the world, it is still illegal in Turkey to talk about what happened to Armenians during this era.
  2. ​1933 The Holocaust-  The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
  3. 1975 Cambodia- From April 17, 1975, to January 7, 1979, the Khmer Rouge perpetrated one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. Nearly two million people died under the rule of the fanatical Communist movement, which imposed a ruthless agenda of forced labor, thought control, and mass execution on Cambodia. The purported goal was to transform the Southeast Asian country into a classless agrarian utopia. The result was an ancient society’s wholesale destruction and a horrifying new term for the world to confront: “the killing fields.”
  4. 1994 Rwanda- From April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. Begun by extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread throughout the country with staggering speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their neighbors. By the time the Tutsi-led Rwandese Patriotic Front gained control of the country through a military offensive in early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were dead and many more displaced from their homes. The RPF victory created 2 million more refugees (mainly Hutus) from Rwanda, exacerbating what had already become a full-blown humanitarian crisis.
  5. 1995 Bosnia- In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia. Over the next several years, Bosnian Serb forces, with the backing of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army, targeted both Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croatian civilians for atrocious crimes resulting in the deaths of some 100,000 people (80 percent Bosniak) by 1995. It was the worst act of genocide since the Nazi regime’s destruction of some 6 million European Jews during World War II.
  6. 2003 Darfur- The “Darfur Genocide” refers to the current mass slaughter and rape of Darfuri men, women, and children in Western Sudan. The killings began in 2003, as the first genocide in the 21st century.  Unrest and violence persist today.The genocide is being carried out by a group of government-armed and funded Arab militias known as the Janjaweed (which loosely translates to ‘devils on horseback’). The Janjaweed systematically destroy Darfurians by burning villages, looting economic resources, polluting water sources, and murdering, raping, and torturing civilians. These militias are historic rivals of the main rebel groups, the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM), and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). As of today, over 480,000 people have been killed, and over 2.8 million people are displaced.

US History of Intolerance

  1. 1619 Slavery
  2. 1830 Indian Removal Act
  3. 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
  4. 1883 Native American Rituals Illegal
  5. ​1865 Formation of the KKK
  6. 1942 Japanesse Internment 
  7. ​​1954 Project Wetback

EVIL World Leaders OF HISTORY

  1. Caligula (12-41. Italy. Emperor of Rome)
  2. Nero (37-68. Italy. Emperor of Rome)
  3. Genghis Khan (1162-1227. Mongolia. Emperor)
  4. Tomas de Torquemada (1420-1498. Spain. Grand Inquisitor)
  5. ​Vlad the Impaler (1428–1476. Romania. King of Walachia)
  6. Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909. Belgium. King)
  7. Talat Pasha (1874-1921. Turkey. Leader of Young Turks)
  8. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953. Soviet Union. Dictator)
  9. ​Mao Tse Tsung or Mao Zedong (1893-1976. China. Founder of the People's Republic of China)
  10. Adolf Hitler (1889-1945. Germany. Leader of the Nazi Party)
  11. Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945. Germany. Leading member of the Nazi Party)
  12. Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989. Japan. Emperor of Japan)
  13. Ayatollah or Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989. Tran. Supreme Leader)
  14. Josef Mengele (1911-1979. Germany. German SS Officer and Physician)
  15. Kim Il Sung (1912-1994. Korea. Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea)
  16. Ferdinand Marcos (1917-1989. Philipines. President)
  17. Benito Mussolini (1922-1943. Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party)
  18. Pol Pot (1925-1998. Cambodia. Dictator)
  19. ​Adi Amin (1923-2003. Uganda. Field Marshall)
  20. Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011. Saudi Arabia. Founder of al-Qaeda) 
  21. Saddam Housen (1937-2006. Iraq. President)
  22. Bashar al Assad (1965-present. Syria. President)
  23. Silvio Berlusconi (1936-present. Italy. Prime Minister)

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