Winnipeg Sun (Manitoba), Canada
May 6, 2011 Friday
FINAL EDITION
Hell on earth
Genocides don’t begin and end with Hitler and Stalin, but instead have
a long and ignoble history. A sampling from the past 100 years:
* Darfur, Sudan,
2003-Present: Governmentbacked militias kill 400,000 farmers and
civilians and displace an estimated 2.5 million people.
* Rwanda, 1994: Over the course of 100 days, Hutu extremists kill
800,000 Tutsis and supporters.
* Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992- 95: Serbian forces kill an estimated
200,000 Muslims, calling it “ethnic cleansing.”
* Cambodia, 1975-79: Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot takes control of
country and imposes ruthless agrarian state; 1.7 million people killed
or starved to death.
* Europe, 1939-1945: Six million Jews killed as part of Adolf Hitler’s
“Final Solution.”
* Ukraine and other Soviet states, 1932-33: Millions die as result of
famine engineered by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
* Armenia, 1915-1923: The Turkish government deports, starves and
otherwise kills an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in effort to create
a new Ottoman Empire.
From: A. Papazian
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