Holding the darkness in the light

1. Holding the darkness in the light An act of commemoration before Holocaust Memorial day

2. Holocaust (Shoah)Extermination camps Auschwitz 1,000,000 Belzec 600,000 Chełmno 320,000 Jasenovac 58,000 – 97,000

3. Holocaust (Shoah)Extermination camps Majdanek 360,000 MalyTrostinets 65,000 Sobibor 250,000 Treblinka 870,000

4. Victims killed Jews 5.9 million Soviet POWs 2 – 3 million Ethnic Poles 1.8 – 2 million Romani 220,000 – 1,500,000 Disabled 200,000 – 250,000 Freemasons 80,000 – 200,000 Slovenes 20,000 – 25,000 Homosexuals 5,000 – 15,000 Jehovah's Witnesses 2,500 – 5,000

5. Genocides from today 89,400 – 130,400, Civil war, Syria, 2011, ongoing 8,813 – 1,400,000, Violent civilian deaths by NATO, Afghanistan, 2001 – 2013 15,000 – 52,000, Violent deaths from 1948, Palestine, ongoing 2,000 – 70,000, Persecution of Falun Gong, China, 1999, ongoing Massacres of pygmies, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1998, ongoing

6. Genocides 864,531 – 1,500,000, Genocide by US, Iraq, 2003 – 2011 178,258 – 400,000, Darfur conflict, Sudan, 2003 – 2010 8,000 – 8,500, Srebrenica massacre, Bosnia, 1995 500,000 – 1,000,000, Rwandan genocide, 1994 100,000 – 200,000, Massacres of Mayan Indians, Guatemala, 1962 – 1996

7. Genocides 44,000 – 150,000, Civil War, Algeria, 1991 – 1999 150,000 – 500,000, Mass killings, genocide, Ethiopia, 1974 – 1991 50,000 – 200,000, Al-Anfal campaign, Iraq, 1986 – 1989 18,600 – 183,000, East Timor, 1975 – 1990s 1,000,000 – 3,000,000, Genocide, Cambodia, 1975 – 1979 9,089 – 30,000, Dirty War, Argentina, 1973 – 1983

8. Genocides Several millions, Starvation, North Korea 100,000, Burmese government killings of Shan, Karen, and NDU, Burma, 1962 – 2007 20,000 – 80,000 Dictatorship and political repression in Equatorial Guinea, 1969 – 1979 35,000,000, Class enemies, religious minorities and Uighurs by Maoist government, PRC army, Red Guards and police, Peoples Republic of China, 1949 – 1977 100,000, Persecution of Hmong by government, Laos, 1975 – 2003

9. Genocides 800,000 – 3,100,000, American holocaust, Vietnam, 1959 – 1975 50,000 – 100,000, Massacres of Hutus, Burundi, 1972 26,000 – 3,000,000, Bangladesh atrocities, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), 1971 450,000, Indonesian genocide of West Papuans, West Papua, 1969 – 1990s 1,000,000 – 3,000,000, Nigerian Civil War, Nigeria, 1967 – 1970

10. Genocides 500,000, Anti-communist purge, Indonesia, 1965 – 1966 2,000,000, Purge of Nuer and Dinka by Khartoum government, Nuba region, South Sudan, 1956 – 1972 92,000, Tibet uprising, 1959 50,000 – 150,000 Harkis by FLN, Algeria, 1954 – 1962 Collective punishment by British troops, Malaya, Oman and North Yemen, 1950s, 1960s 300,000 – 320,000, Mau Mau massacres of Kikuyu by British colonialists, 1950 – 1959

11. The holocaust 1941 - 1945 4,194,200 – 17,000,000

12. Genocides 500,000 – 3,000,000 Expulsion of Germans after World War II, Europe, 1945 – 1950 60,000 – 174,000, Communist purges, Serbia, 1944 – 1945 270,000 – 655,000, Ustashe genocides of Serbs, Jews, Roma and Croats, Croatia, 1941 – 1945 60,000 – 200,000, Volhynia massacre, Poland, 1943 – 1944 7,000,000, Bengali famine, India, 1943

13. Genocides 20,000 – 30,000, Katyn massacre, USSR, 1940 13,160 – 70,000, Dersim massacre, Dersim, Turkey, 1937 – 1938 250,000 – 300,000 Nanking massacre by Japan, 1937 20,000 – 30,000 Execution of Haitians, Dominican Republic, 1937 2,582,000 – 8,000,000, Holodomor (and Soviet famine), Ukrainian SSR, 1932 – 1933 300,000 – 1,500,000, Armenian genocide, Anatolia, 1915 – 1923

14. Genocides 300,000 – 500,000, Decossackization, Don River area, Soviet Union, 1919 – 1920 275,000 – 750,000, Assyrian genocide, Anatolia, 1915 – 1918 200,000 – 1,000,000 Greek genocide, Anatolia, 1915 – 1918 20,000 Bombing and gassing, Sudan, 1918 8,000,000 – 10,000,000, Tropical diseases, and the exploitation of the Congo Free State under the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium, Congo Free State, 1885 – 1908 24,000 – 75,000, Herero and Namaqua genocide, Namibia, 1904 – 1908

15. Genocides 2,000,000 – 100,000,000, European colonization of the Americas, Americas, 1492 – 1900 1,200,000, Maafa, Atlantic ocean, 16th C – 19th C 2,500 – 50,000, Samar massacre, Philippines, 1901 – 1902, part of 1,000,000, US pacification programme, 1899 – 1913 1,500,000, Hazara genocide, Afghanistan, 1888 – 1890s 20,000 Extermination of aborigines, Tasmania, 1788 – 1901

16. Genocides 12,000,000 – 29,000,000 Mass starvation, India, 1876-8, 1890s 1,000,000 Irish Great Famine, Ireland, 1845 – 1852 400,000 – 1,500,000, Circassian genocide, Circassia, 1817 – 1864 480,000 – 600,000, Massacres in Zunghar Khanate, Western Mongolia, Kazakhstan, northern Kyrgyzstan, southern Siberia, 1755 – 1758 80,000, Massacres in Khoshut Khanate, Qinghai and Tibet regions of China, 1723 – 1725

17. Civil wars, massacres and starvation The list is incomplete. We also mention South Africa Zimbabwe Paraguay Chile Mozambique others

18. Crimes against humanity HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI

19. Reflections The Buddha: Which is greater in the cycle of life, the tears you have shed this long, long time, crying and weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing – or the water of the four great oceans?

20. Reflections The light for which the world longs is already shining. It is shining into the darkness, but the darkness does not apprehend it. It is shining into the darkness, but the darkness is not overcoming it. It is shining in many a soul, and already the new order has begun within the kingdom of the heart. It is shining in many a small group and creating a heavenly-earthly fellowship of children of the light. It will always shine and lead many into the world of need, that they may bear it up into the heart of God. Thomas Kelly, Quaker, in 1941.