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20 th Century Genocide. And Beyond. 20 th Century Genocide Additional examples. My definition of “Genocide”: . Armenian Where/When: Ottoman Empire/ anatolia – 1915-1918 Perpetrator: Ottoman (Muslim turks Victims: Armenian christians
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20th Century Genocide And Beyond
20th Century Genocide Additional examples My definition of “Genocide”: Armenian Where/When: Ottoman Empire/anatolia – 1915-1918 Perpetrator: Ottoman (Muslim turks Victims: Armenian christians Motive: Armenians wanted independence form Ottoman empire Evidence: 1.5 mill. Deaths due to executions and displacement Stalin’s Forced Famine Where/When: Ukraine, Soviet Union – 1932-33 Perpetrator: Joseph Stalin Victims: Ukrainians Motive: Punishment for Ukrainian nationalist movement Evidence: 7 million deaths, executions, starvations Commonalities between all? Cambodia Where/When: S.E. Asia – 1975-1978 Perpetrator: Communist leader – Pol Pot & his Khmer Rouge Victims: Urban workers, intellectuals, capitalists Motive: create a pure, rural, peasant farming society Evidence: 2 mill. Killed, political executions, starvation, forced labor Rwanda Where/When: East Africa - 1994 Perpetrator: Hutu Tribe Victims: Tutsi Tribe Motive: Ruling Hutus had long hatred of rival Tutsi dating back to Tutsi superiority during colonial times Evidence: 800,000 killed, systematic murder by Hutu militia and citizens Similarities to Nazi Holocaust?
Stalin’s Russia Stalin’s Great Purge, Collectivization of ag. lands, forced labor and specifically the ForcedUkrainian Famine resulted in 20-30 million deaths
Pol Pot’s Cambodian Genocide Throughout Cambodia, deadly cleansings were performed to abolish all that was left of the "old society." People were executed because they were educated or wealthy and based on their occupation, such as police, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and former government officials. Ex-soldiers were killed along with their wives and children. Anyone suspected of disloyalty to Pol Pot, which eventually included many Khmer Rouge leaders, was killed. The three largest minorities - the Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cham Muslims - were attacked as well as twenty other smaller groups. Of the 425,000 Chinese living in Cambodia in 1975, half of them were killed. The Khmer Rouge carried out many atrocities against these minority groups, including forcing Muslims to eat pork and shooting those who refused. combined effects of forced labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21% of the Cambodian population