Genocides
From The Top 10
These are the Top 10 Genocides:
- A Genocide is the systematic and intentional mass killing of a group - usually involving civilians, women, children, and innocent people - on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, political belief, or social-economic status.
Questions to ask ourselves:
- Why do we allow these things to happen?
[edit] The Ten Worst Genocides in World History
No. 10. Darfur, Sudan, Africa
- Since about 2003, many innocent people have been executed in the region of Darfur in Sudan by the Arab-dominated government. This conflict was sparked when two groups rebelled against the government. The two groups are the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement. The Janjaweed are the militia that are responsible for the deaths of 50,000 to 80,000 of innocent people.
No. 9. Rwanda, Africa
No. 8. Bosnia Genocide, 1992-1995, 200,000 Deaths
- The Balkan area of former Yugoslavia is comprised of three main ethnic groups, the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims who belong to Orthodox Christian, Catholic, and Islam religions respectively. Following the death of longtime Communist leader and Yugoslavian President Tito, the republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from Yugoslavia. Militant Serbian Nationalists, under their leader, Slobodan Milosevic, began "ethnic cleansing" against Croatians beginning in 1991, before international countries negotiated a truce. In 1992, when the US and Europe recognized the independence of Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovinain, a majority Muslim country with a 30% Serb minority, the Serb Nationalists occupied Bosnia and practised "ethnic cleansing" against the Muslims. Milosevic supported local Serb Nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic. The Serb forces killed 200,000 Muslims, and destroyed the city of Sarajevo (former host of the 1984 Winter Olympics). Thousands of children were shot down in the streets of cities. Men and boys were rounded up, executed and thrown into mass graves. The UN was ineffectual. UN peacekeepers witnessed the execution of 8,000 boys and men from the age of twelve to sixty. The UN later charged Milosevic with war crimes. In 2006, Milosevic died of a heart attack while awaiting trial in Den Hague, Nederland.
No. 7. Cambodian Genocide under Pol Pot
- The Cambodian Genocide began in about 1975. Pol Pot forced children into labor, and murdered other religion's followers in his country. Many minority groups were also targeted. Civilian deaths from executions disease and starvation are thought to be well of 2 million.
No. 6. Holocaust
- The most famous of all genocides is the Holocaust,committed by the Nazis in World War II, towards the Jews and other minority groups. About six million Jews died in concentration camps around Europe in this time. They were killed through line up executions, gas chambers and other horrific cruelties. Their bodies were buried in huge mass graves, which were only discovered after the defeat of Germany. The total number of deaths is thought to be anywhere from 9 million to 11 million.
No. 5. The Rape of Nanjing
- In World War II, the Japanese army committed many horrors against this Chinese city. The chaos lasted for about six weeks, and began with the Japanese claiming that they were killing dsiguised soldiers in civilian clothing. But they began killing innocent people and it is thought to be about a death count in the 300,000. These deaths were attibuted to plain execution, rape, and arson. The Japanese left Nanjing with dead women and children lying everywhere.
No. 4. Armenian Genocide
- The Armenian Genocide (also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the Armenian Massacre) refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks (Committee of Union and Progress) from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.
No. 3. Native American Indian genocide, 19th Century, United States
No. 2. Native American Peoples of the New World, following the "discovery" of the Americas by Christopher Columbus.
No. 1. The Crusades
- The Crusades began in the Middle Ages with the Holy Wars of the Catholic Church. The Church was killing many Muslims and their excuse was that it was for God. The event that sparked this anger was the sacking of the pilgrimage hospcie on Jerusalem and the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. From this point on, the Pope's of Vatican City gave their approval of the wars against the Muslims. The large Crusades lasted until about the end of the 14th century. The result of these savage, and cruel killings of Muslims, is most of the Islamic world now despising Europe and other Christian countries.CAUTION: }} The above article on 'crusades' is a highly caustic, one sided, and un-scholarly diatribe against a subject the author quite evidently loathes. The Crusades were a response to a very real threat and fear, that the 'Christian world' faced, that of becoming slaves to Islam, even though the previous author ignores this reason. Although there were issues of 'Dominionism' that were also at work, (Taking the world over for God).
The truth of the matter was that the crusades were a response to the massive spread of Islam in the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries, where forced conversion to the Islamic faith, and the de-humanization-'dhemmi' process were being carried out against peaceful orthodox communities that had existed since the 1st century. Islam had already taken the previously predominantly Christian area's in North Africa, the Coastal Middle East, Turkey and Spain, it had already rushed into France, and several times been turned back trying to take the Capital of Eastern Christianity, Constantinople.
