The genocide list
This is the beginnings of a list of genocides, lest we forget. It aims to be more concise than this list on Wikipedia, and to reiterate it. So long as we remain at war with our own history, as many Turks (for example) seem to be at present, we have little chance of avoiding repeating past errors.
I will probably confine this list to the last 150 years.
Another such list, by the Peace Pledge Union, may be found on their excellent site.
What is genocide? Well, my working definition will be “the deliberate and systematic murder of a large number of civilians”. I recognise that there may in certain contexts be virtue to more nuanced definitions, and this working definition may change as I proceed.
At present, I plan to write about these genocides; more will probably be added to the list:
- Congo Free State
- Armenian (two genocides)
- Bosnia
- Cambodia
- Darfur (ongoing)
- East Timor
- Guatemala
- India
- The Holocaust
- Namibia
- Rwanda
- The Serbian genocide
- The Ukraine
pls include the hundred of thousands of women killed by drowning/burning torture in the middle ages[?] onward in the name of religion – accused of being witches – many were the healers/herbalists of their time. i was told that these events are still in the collective psyche of women. the fear/terror of being brutalised.
hoh
August 4, 2007 at 8:46 am
Please include the genocide of indigenous population of Americas. It is estimated that from among 20-80 million (from least to most) natives, who were present at the time of discovery of new worlds by Europeans, only less than 5 percent survived to see the dawn of 21st century.
Saleem T K
October 18, 2007 at 8:32 am
Canada and the USA committed genocide against american indians for over 100 years. Check it out- they kidnapped 1000’s of children from 1875 to the 1980s then murdered and raped them. In the 1900s the mortality rate was as low as 50%, less than nazi death camps. Do a search for “residential school.”
Also, Christopher Columbus in the late 1490’s became governor of Hispanola (haiti and dominican republic) and under his rule, 95%+ of the native Taino population were murdered and forced to work to death. Their women were raped.
sean
August 24, 2008 at 12:03 am
Please include the genocide of the American Indian. If you need any relevant information I have LOADS of it.
I think it is important that our culture recognize it.
taylor
October 30, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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November 11, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Kosovo 1998-1999. Ethnic cleansing by S. Milosevic… or, like he phrased it, “solving the Albanian problem”.
The solution was killing the men and deporting the rest and that way destroy the Albanian ethnic group in Kosovo.
Nick
November 29, 2008 at 2:59 am
You should add Tibet also. If you need info on this matter, you can contact me.
Guy
February 1, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Please include the Ethiopian genocide by Mengistu. Just happens to be 500,000+ people (up to 1.5 million) and never heard of. Thanks!
Jon
June 3, 2009 at 1:59 am
British+European made genocides against native Americans and Africans are the biggest genocides of mankind history. Why aren’t they in the list?
emboy
September 10, 2009 at 5:13 am
its jus sad to see what people do to each other GAWD..!
Nasteho
October 29, 2009 at 7:04 pm