Genocide

1
Genocide

• the systematic and planned extermination of an
  entire national, racial, political, or ethnic
  group

2
Examples of genocide in the 20th century

• Holocaust
• Killings of Armenians by the Ottomans
• Stalins Great Purge
• Pol Pot targets artists, monks, tehnicians, govt
  officials, etc. in Cambodia
  
• Tutsi minority in Rwanda
• Muslims and Croats by Bosnian Serbs in Yugoslavia

3
Holocaust

• 1940s
• Hitler targets the Jews as a scapegoat for the
  Great Depression
  
• Millions are killed in concentration camps
• Millions more emigrate from Europe to the United
  States and other countries worldwide

4
Armenian Genocide

• WWI Era
• Armenians made up a minority in the Ottoman
  Empire, but until WWI lived peacefully.
  
• During WWI, the Islamic sultans decided that
  having members of a Christian based faith was
  unacceptable and targeted the Armenians.
  
• Over a million were killed and many more were
  deported from the Ottoman Empire.

5
Great Purge

• 1930s
• Joseph Stalin targeted those who did not agree
  with his strict Communist ways.
  
• Mostly he targeted peasants, govt officials,
  military leaders, and members of the elite in the
  USSR.
  
• Close to a million were executed before 1940.
• Stalin continued these ways through the 1940s.

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Pol Pot Cambodia

• 1970s
• Cambodian leader Pol Pot targeted the educated,
  artists, technicians, former government
  officials, monks, and minorities in an attempt to
  establish a Communist utopian society.
• In all around 2 million were killed.

7
Tutsi Minority in Rwanda

• 1994
• Organized killing of up to 1 million Tutsi people
  by the Hutu majority in Rwanda (Central Africa)
  
• Formed the basis for the 2004 movie Hotel Rwanda,
  nominated for many awards
  
• Hundreds of thousands are awaiting trial for
  crimes against humanity and hundreds of thousands
  of children were left as orphans.

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Muslims and Croats in Yugoslavia

• 1980s and 1990s
• Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosovic
  organized the killing of Muslims and Croats in
  Yugoslavia
  
• He was tried and convicted of crimes against
  humanity for this genocide in the 2000s, and was
  found dead in his prison cell in March 2006.