Genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries by

Definition

amaiabarrera — 2022-04-28 14:33:40 UTC

A genocide is the systematic extermination of a social group or ethnic group.

aboriginal genocide in australia

amaiabarrera — 2022-04-28 14:35:39 UTC

From the early 20th century until 1969, the Australian government carried out a new plan to decimate and wipe out the Aboriginal population (in addition to all the previous plans they had already perpetrated). Tens of thousands of Aboriginal children, especially those of mixed race, were abducted by the Australian government and taken from their families, forced to work as house servants or farm laborers, and forced to reject their heritage, language and customs. . With this tactic what was intended was the disappearance of the aboriginal people because not only were their future generations taken from them, but they also lived a forced oblivion of their entire culture.

Chinese Genocide

2022-04-28 14:38:12 UTC

The first half of the 20th century was a real catastrophe in humanitarian terms for China. The country, in principle, was invaded in 1937 by the Japanese Empire, which not only committed all kinds of atrocities but also carried out cruel bacteriological experiments on the population. It is estimated that 22 million people died during those years.

Holodomor

k3s0l0l21 — 2022-04-28 14:40:42 UTC

Holodomor is the name given to the Ukrainian holocaust, a famine that took place in the Soviet Union between 1932 and 1933. It was caused by a poor harvest and was aggravated by the collectivization policies of Joseph Stalin, which caused the famine of more than 10 million people.

It is estimated that as a result of this, about 1.5 million people died. However, if factors other than the famine are taken into account, such as the repression suffered by the peasants, the figure is in dispute and can reach (depending on the source) 10 million people.

The Samudaripen

2022-05-03 03:31:02 UTC

the genocide of half a million gypsies is framed, also at the hands of the Nazi authorities, reaching in some countries the murder of 90% of the gypsy population. This silent genocide, the Samudaripen, has recently been recognized by the German authorities and by the European Union.

Genocide of armain

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-04 17:55:02 UTC

The genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks government against the Armenian people (from 1915 to 1918) brought about the extermination of a million and a half people that lived in the Ottoman Empire. The first attacks against Armenians occurred since the late 19th century, but April 24, 1915 is considered as the starting date of the genocidal process, when several Armenian intellectuals and politicians were arrested in Constantinople. The genocide occurred while the First World War was taking place, as the Turkish authorities aimed at creating a homogeneous State composed solely of Muslim Turks, thus entailing the extermination of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks. The genocide of Ottoman Christians has been widely recognized and affirmed by various academic associations, international organizations, and States, including the allies of the Ottoman Empire during the war. Turkey, however, categorically refuses to consider this crime as genocide. The aim of this paper is to develop a historical synthesis of the genocidal process against the Armenians and present an overview of the consequences that the Turkish government's negation has produced.

The holocaust

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-04 17:59:29 UTC

The Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of people at the hands of the Nazi regime during World War II, which took place between 1939 and 1945. The Jewish population was the main target of the Nazis, and it is estimated that 2 out of 3 European Jews died during this campaign of extermination.
 In total, between 1941 and 1945, the main extermination centers claimed the lives of at least 2,700,000 Jews, who died of suffocation, inhalation of poisonous gas, by the conditions of the fields or shot to death

Cambodian genocide

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-04 18:02:34 UTC

Lasting for four years (between 1975 and 1979), the Cambodian Genocide was an explosion of mass violence that saw between 1.5 and 3 million people killed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a communist political group. The Khmer Rouge had taken power in the country following the Cambodian Civil War. During their brutal four-year rule, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of nearly a quarter of Cambodians.

The Cambodian Genocide was the result of a social engineering project by the Khmer Rouge, attempting to create a classless agrarian society. The regime would ultimately collapse when the neighboring Vietnam invaded, establishing an occupation that would last more than a decade.

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-04 19:20:17 UTC

The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.

In the final year of World War II, the Allies prepared for a costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that devastated 64 Japanese cities. The war in Europe concluded when Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945, and the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific War.

Srebrenica massacre

2022-05-04 21:32:37 UTC

It consisted of the murder of some 8,000 people of Muslim Bosnian ethnicity in the Srebrenica region, in July 1995, during the Bosnian war by Bosnian Serbs and elements from the hitherto JNA. This mass murder, carried out by units of the VRS, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, as well as by a Serbian paramilitary group known as "The Scorpions", occurred in an area previously declared "safe" by the United Nations and which at that time was under the supposed protection of 400 Dutch blue helmets. Although the elimination of Muslim Bosnian men was supposedly sought, the massacre included the murder of children, adolescents and the elderly, with the aim of obtaining the ethnic cleansing of the city.

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Genocide of Christians by the Islamic State

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-05 10:52:18 UTC

The genocide of Christians by the Islamic State involves the systematic mass murder of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya controlled by the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State. Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later by its spillover. This is happening since 2014.

Genocide of Nuer and other ethnic groups of South Sudan*

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-05 10:53:01 UTC

On December 15, 2013, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit, a Dinka by tribe, ordered Dinka members of his Presidential Guard to disarm their Nuer counterparts. The ethnic militia soldiers went house-to-house killing thousands of Dr Riek Machar's Nuers and raping women and children.

Genocide of rohingya in Myanmar

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-05 10:53:31 UTC

The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the Burmese military. The genocide has consisted of two phases to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017.

Genocide of Darfur

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-05 10:53:59 UTC

The Darfur genocide is the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people which has occurred during the ongoing conflict in Western Sudan. This is happening since 26 February 2003 to the present (19 years, 2 months and 2 days).

Yazidis

amaiabarrera — 2022-05-05 10:54:32 UTC

The Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) carried out a genocide of Yazidis in the Sinjar area of northern Iraq in the mid-2010s. The genocide led to the expulsion, flight and effective exile of the Yazidis from their ancestral lands in Upper Mesopotamia.