20th Century Genocide by Ashley Spencer https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey Explore examples of genocide in the 20th Century. en-us 2023-01-19 11:46:32 UTC 2025-05-14 14:44:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Armenia aspencer23 https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449681435 Beginning in 1915, ethnic Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were rounded up, deported and executed on orders of the government. The combination of massacres, forced deportation marches and deaths due to disease in concentration camps is estimated to have killed more than 1 million ethnic Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks between 1915 and 1923.]]> 2023-01-19 11:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449681435 Conflict in Darfur aspencer23 https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449684990 Since 2003, an estimated 300,000 people have died as a result of the conflict in Darfur and as many as 2.7 million people have been displaced within Darfur, with several hundred thousand more fleeing into neighboring countries such as Chad, the Central African Republic and Egypt. In September 2004, President George W. Bush declared the crisis in Darfur “genocide” — the first time a sitting American president had made such a declaration regarding an ongoing conflict. Despite the world’s growing outcry, the violence continued in Darfur and the number of dead and displaced increased considerably. Almost two decades later, Darfur remains a conflict riddled and blighted homeland for its inhabitants. The United Nations estimates more than 300,000 people have died as a result of violence, starvation, and disease while nearly three million people have been driven from their homes and forced into refugee camps in neighboring countries or Internally Displaced Person camps (IDP) within Sudan. Ethnic violence that broke out in early 2021 has already left upwards of 500 people dead, with many of the victims in IDP camps. The new Sudanese government has been slow to appropriately intervene and de-escalate the situation, creating new concerns about its commitments to keep the region safe and address issues.
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]]> 2023-01-19 12:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449684990 Rwanda aspencer23 https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449687782 Civil war broke out in Rwanda in 1990, further exacerbating tensions between the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority. Although a peace agreement was reached in 1992, political negotiations continued. In 1994, as he returned from the latest round of talks in neighboring Tanzania, Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down outside of the country’s capital, Kigali. Habyarimana’s death provided the spark for an organized campaign of violence against Tutsi and moderate Hutu civilians across the country. Despite the efforts of United Nations peacekeepers, extremist Hutu groups killed between 800,000 and 1 million people across the country in only 100 days. In 1994, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), dedicated to bringing those responsible for the genocide to justice. ]]> 2023-01-19 12:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449687782 Cambodia aspencer23 https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449692516
When the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian government in 1975, they declared the beginning of a new age dedicated to a peasant-oriented society. Instead, after outlawing education, religion, healthcare and technology, the Khmer Rouge ordered the evacuation of Cambodia’s cities and forced these residents to labor without adequate food or rest. Those who were unable to keep up were often summarily executed. At the same time, the Khmer Rouge began to target suspected political dissidents. These citizens, including doctors, teachers and those suspected of being educated were singled out for torture at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison. In four years, between 1.7 and 2 million Cambodians died in the Khmer Rouge’s ‘Killing Fields.’]]> 2023-01-19 12:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449692516 The Holocaust aspencer23 https://padlet.com/aspencer23/sbctq4ca460r9fey/wish/2449695068 After coming to power in 1933, the Nazi Party implemented a highly organized strategy of persecution and murder. Their targets were the so-called “undesirables”: Jews, Slavs, Roma, the disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals, as well as political and religious dissidents.

The Nazis began with stripping citizenship from German Jews on the basis of their religious identity. Shortly thereafter, in November 1938, the organized pogrom of Kristallnacht marked the beginning of mass deportations of German Jews to concentration camps. As the Nazis conquered large areas of Europe, Jews and others in Nazi-controlled areas were also deported to camps. When the German Army invaded the Soviet Union, it soon gave rise to mobile killing squads operating throughout Eastern Europe and Russia, which killed more than one million Jews and tens of thousands of other civilians. The construction of extermination camps at Auschwitz-Birkanau, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno and Sobibor led to the Nazis’ killing of 2.7 million Jews and others through the use of cyanide gas, summary executions and medical experimentation. Poor living conditions in non-extermination camps led to the deaths of millions more. It is estimated that six million Jews, two out of every three living in Europe, and another 5 million people had been killed by 1945.
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