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Armenian Genocide |
1915- ottoman turks targeted Armenians
Armenians wanted freedom and independence from O.E
Turks claimed Armenians planned to revolt and destroy the empire
1.5 million killed, cities demolished, arrested, deported, children killed, forced to convert to islam, etc |
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Stalins genocide to Ukrainians |
1930s- ukraine attempting independence, stalin refused and punished
took land from farmers, collectivized it, forced to be slave workers on own land or Siberia
food shipped out of the country and seized from homes no Ukrainians could leave country
25% 7 million starved to death
cannibalism to survive
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Germany genocide |
1930s and 40s
jews, gypsies, handicapped, slavs targetted
12m killed, half were jews, persecuted, ghettos, killing squads and concentration camps
no one stopes until freed at end of the war |
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cambodia genocide |
1970s- pol pot and khmer rouge targeted educated, doctors, lawyers, city dwellers, elderly, etc.
wanted to create an agrarian utopia and spread communism, hospitals closed, medicine banned, education stopped, books confiscated, leave cities and go to killing fields 18 hrs a day. disloyals were killed
1.7 million died 25% if starvation, malnutrition and execution
different def on genocide it did not target any ethnic group |
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Bosnia genocide |
1990s- milosovic and serbs targeted Bosnian muslims, croats and people of Kosovo
following end of cold war yugoslavia began to disintegrate and slovenia and croatia gained independence
milosovic wanted a greater serbia so he wanted the countries back
serbian snipers killed people on street, torture, gang rape, massacres
"ethnic cleansing"
UN peacekeepers attacked 8000 men and boys killed
NATO bombing
bosnia divided in 2
200,000 dead 20,000 missong and 2 m refugees |
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rwanda |
1990s hutu kill tutsi
belgium and germany imperialized granting tutsi more power than hutu
when b and g left hutu forced tutsi to neighboring burundi then took over gov
tutsi killed hutus president in burundi and hutu responded w violence
hutu used machetes and clubs to kill, 1 of 8 million killed
tutsi forced to kill family members
kill or be killed |
