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Mass killings of the past century

The Associated Press
April 22, 2004, Thursday

Mass killings of the past century

Background and resources on genocides and mass killings in the past
century:

-Armenian Genocide (1915-16): Ottoman Turks kill about 1.5 million
ethnic Armenians during World War I.

-Ukraine (1932-33): An artificial famine caused by Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin’s agricultural policies kills 7 million to 10 million
people.

-Nazi Holocaust (1933-1945): German leader Adolf Hitler leads attack
on Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe in which 6 million Jews die. The
Nazis also kill about 5 million other civilians, including Gypsies,
Poles, political opponents, gays, and others.

-Chinese Great Leap Forward (1959-61): About 30 million Chinese die
in famine that followed Mao Zedong’s effort at rapid rural
industrialization.

-Cambodia (1975-79): Khmer Rouge government kills about 1.7 million
Cambodians in a drive to purge western influence and start an
agrarian communist state.

-Rwanda (1994): Ethnic Hutu rebels lead attacks on ethnic Tutsis and
moderate Hutus, killing an estimated 800,000 people.

Resources for further study:

-Genocide links:

http://reslife.binghamton.edu/hillside/genocide/country.htm
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