Human Rights Violations & Genocide

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Event Participants/People When Where Details Video Images
Armenian Genocide
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Armenians

1915-1917

Present Day Turkey & Armenia
The Holodomor / Ukrainian Famine
  • Stalin & The Soviet Government
  • Ukrainians

1932-1933

Soviet Union & Ukraine
Holocaust
  • European Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies (Romani,Sinti), Jehovah Witness, Political Prisoners, Mentally and/or Physically Disabled, Religious Prisoners, Slavs, Freemasons, & others
  • Nazis
  • Italian Fascists

1933-1945

Europe
Nanking (Nanjing) Massacre
  • Japanese Military
  • Chinese

1937-1938

Nanjing, China

Guatemalan Civil War
  • Indigenous Maya
  • Ladino Peasants
  • Guatemalan Government
1960-1996 Guatemala
Cambodian Genocide
  • Khmer Rouge
  • Pol Pot
  • Cambodians
1975-1979 Cambodia
Tiananmen Square Massacre
  • Chinese Students
  • Chinese Communists

1989

Beijing, China (Tiananmen)

Bosnian Genocide
  • Serbs
  • Croations
  • Bosnians

1992-1995

Bosnia-Herzegovina
Rwandan Genocide
  • Hutu
  • Tutsi

1994

Rwanda
Darfur Famine
  • Sudanese
  • Arabs
  • Christians
  • Muslims

2003-Present

Sudan (Dafur Region)