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Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959)
He coined the word "genocide" - genos (Greek for family, tribe or race) and -cide (Latin for killing)
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The Holocaust
1938 - 1945
5-6 million Jews & ethnic minorities killed by Hitler and the Nazis Photo: https://intpolicydigest.org/2018/02/06/the-united-states-holocaust-memorial-museum-in-washington-d-c/ -
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
The United Nations adopts Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. It will be ratified in 1951.
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Genocide Definition
Any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:
a) Killing its members
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
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Cambodia
1975 - 1979
1.7 - 2.2 million killed by the Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
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Iraq
March 16, 1988
100,000 Iraqi Kurds killed by Sadam Hussein
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Rwanda
April - July 1994
800,000 Tutsi killed by the Hutu government
Photo: https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-07/100-days-hell-rwandas-1994-genocide-photos -
Yugoslavia
1992 - 1995
100,000 Muslims, Bosnians and Serbs killed by President Slobodan Milosevic
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Guatemala
1968 - 1996
200,000 Mayans and peasants killed by the Guatemalan government and death squads
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Iraq & Syria
August 2014 - January 2016
400,000 Yazidis killed in the Sinjar Region in Northern Iraq & Syria by ISIS
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Myanmar
October 2016 - August 2017
Unknown Rohingya Muslims killed by Myanmar government and army
Photo: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-11/un-decries-ethnic-cleansing-in-myanmar/8893450 -
Darfur Region of the Sudan
2003 - Present
200,000 - 500,000 Zaghawa, Massaleit and Black Africans killed by Sudanese government and the Janjaweed
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Syria
March 2011 - Present
~500,000 Syrians have been killed by Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government
Photo: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10279790/Government-allowed-export-of-nerve-gas-chemicals-to-Syria.html
