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Assyrian and Greek Genocides

In 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) reminded the world that 300,000 Assyrians of upper Mesopotamia were murdered and forcibly relocated by the Young Turks regime. During the same period, the Greek population of Asia Minor numbering in the hundreds of thousands was also systematically exterminated and evicted.

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Armenian Genocide

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire started the systematic massacre and extermination of Armenian men, women and children. The genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and the ailing on death marches to the Syrian desert.
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Russian Revolution

During the political upheavals that followed the czarist regime and gave rise to communism, organized mobs ravaged Jewish neighborhoods and killed more than 60,000 Jews in an attempt to eliminate them from the Russian society.

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Ukrainian Famine

In the Stalinist Soviet Union, at least 7 million Ukrainians were systematically robbed of their landholdings, crops, and access to food and forced to starve to death in a government-sanctioned famine.

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The Holocaust

World War II saw the calculated and ruthless murder of 6 million Jews and 400,000 Gypsies by the Nazi Regime in an effort to “cleanse” the German population.
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Cambodian Genocide

The Khmer Rouge communist party killed roughly 1.7 million Cambodians through execution, slave labor, and starvation in an effort to exterminate the population.
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Bosnian Genocide

The Serbian government of Yugoslavia enacted a widespread extermination of the individual republics—Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina—that sought independence. Around 18,000 victims have been found in mass graves for an estimated total of 100,000 lives lost.
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Rwanda

While political strife ran rampant in Rwanda, Hutu extremists mercilessly slaughtered some 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu men, women and children to decimate the competition.
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Darfur, Sudan

The residents of Western Darfur were ruthlessly driven from their lands, slaughtered and died at the hands of starvation and disease in a genocide that is still being carried out today. Around 300,000 have been killed and over 2 million displaced.
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Middle East

In various countries of the Middle East, including Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, there is genocide being acted out against the Christian Arabs of the region. Torture, slaughter, starvation, and exile have become the reality for many, and with no end in sight.