Genocide
The Fruit of Hatred
Genocide Defined
The systematic and planned
extermination of an entire national,
racial, political, or ethnic group (from
the Greek genos, meaning “race”)
Hatred is as old as humanity
The last 100 years have given rise to
a new form of hatred…
Armenia
1915-1918, 1920-1923
1.5 million Armenians were murdered, starved, or
worked to death in labor camps by the Turkish
majority in the Ottoman Empire
Armenia
1915-1918, 1920-1923
“Who, after all,
speaks today of
the annihilation of
the Armenians?”
–Adolph Hitler,
while persuading his
associates that a Jewish
holocaust would be
tolerated by the west
Armenian mother & 2 children, starved to death
Nazi Germany
1933-1945
6 million Jews
5 million Poles, Gypsies,
homosexuals, the disabled, and
“enemies of the State”
were murdered, starved or
worked to death in concentration
camps
Nazi Germany
1933-1945
Prison barracks, Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel is at far right, second bunk
Cambodia
1975-1979
1.7 million people lost
their lives
The Khmer Rouge regime, headed by
Pol Pot, tried to eliminate
intellectuals and educated people
(lawyers, doctors, teachers,
engineers, scientists and
professional people) , the ill,
disabled, old and very young.
Religion was banned- Buddhist
monks were killed and temples
were destroyed. Music and radios
were banned.
People were shot simply for knowing
a foreign language, wearing
glasses, laughing, or crying.
Also targeted were minority groups,
including ethnic Chinese,
Vietnamese and Thai, or
Cambodians with mixed ancestry
Cambodia
1975-1979
With bureaucratic
precision the Kmer
Rouge photographed
their victims before
torturing and killing
them. This picture is
all that remains of a
mother and child
murdered in Tuol
Sleng Prison
sometime between
1975 and 1979
Rwanda
1994
Rwandan soldiers and Hutu gangs
slaughtered ethnic Tutsis
Rwanda
1994
Over the course of
only 100 days, one
million people were
slaughtered, mostly
by gangs with
machetes.
An estimated
535,000 women
were victims of a
rape campaign
Bosnia
1992-1995
In the Republic of
Bosnia-
Herzegovina,
conflict between
the three main
ethnic groups, the
Serbs, Croats, and
Muslims, resulted
in genocide
committed by the
Serbs against the
Muslims in Bosnia
Bosnia
1992-1995
200,000 Deaths resulted from
the four-year campaign of
“ethnic cleansing”
Radovan Karadzic (right), the
former Bosnian Serb leader
charged with genocide for
the 1995 Srebrenica
massacre of some 8,000
Muslims
On July 11, 1995 Bosnian
Serb troops overran the
UN "safe area" of
Srebrenica as UN Dutch
troops stood by helplessly.
The slaughter lasted seven
days.
Karadzic remains at large.
Sudan
2003-Present
In 2003, rebel groups of African Muslims,
fed up with chronic inequalities
between Africans and the ruling Arab
elite, struck out against the
government, which responded by
arming local militias to crack down on
mainly three ethnic groups: the Fur,
Masalit and Zaghawa.
The government-backed groups, known as
"Janjaweed," terrorize Africans,
destroying villages, killing and maiming
men, ransacking food supplies and
blocking international assistance. The
Janjaweed also carry out systematic
campaigns of rape against African
women in an attempt to humiliate the
women and their families and weaken
tribal ethnic lines
Sudan
2003-Present
Genocide
Evil triumphs when good
men do nothing…