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    EXAMPLES OF GENOCIDE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS

    The Daily Herald-Tribune (Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada)
    October 27, 2004 Wednesday Final Edition


    The stain on humanity that has come to be known as genocide has a long
    history. Here are a few events from the last 100 years that have been
    labelled genocides:

    Ottoman Empire (1915)

    More than one million Christian Armenians were forced from their homes
    into the Syrian desert by the Muslim government of the then-Ottoman
    empire, along the way to face slaughter and starvation. Decades later,
    Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler is said to have been inspired by the
    events. He was quoted as saying: "Who, after all, speaks today of the
    annihilation of the Armenians?"

    Russian Revolution (1917-21)

    Amid political upheaval that saw the fall of the czarist regime and the
    rise of communism, organized mobs waged pogroms against Jewish
    communities at the cost of more than 60,000 lives.

    Stalinist Soviet Union (1931-33)

    Under the banner of communism, landholdings and crops of prosperous
    Ukrainian farmers were seized. Up to 10 million in Ukraine were driven
    out to starve to death.

    Nazi Germany (1939-45)

    Hitler's "Final Solution" in the quest for a pure Aryan nation
    accounted for the deaths of some six million Jews and tens of thousands
    of other "undesirables." Many were gassed and then incinerated in death
    camp furnaces.

    Cambodia (1975-79)

    The Khmer Rouge communist party was responsible for the deaths of more
    than 1.5 million Cambodians through execution, slave labour and
    starvation. The country recently agreed to a UN-supported plan to bring
    surviving leaders to trial.

    Bosnia (1992-95)

    The breakup of Yugoslavia, as individual republics -- Croatia,
    Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina -- sought independence,
    brought the wrath of the Serbian government, leading to widespread
    exterminations. Some 18,000 victims have been discovered in mass
    graves. Ex-Serb president Slobodan Milosevic is currently before an
    international war-crimes tribunal on charges including genocide. Other
    military aides have been indicted.

    Rwanda (1994)

    Some 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu
    extremists in political strife. More Tutsis were massacred this summer
    in a UN refugee camp in neighbouring Burundi.

    Sudan (current)

    An estimated 300,000 people will die by year's end as residents of
    western Darfur region are forced from their lands. Many have been
    slaughtered; many more face starvation and disease. The Arab-led
    central government has been blamed for supporting the genocide.

    GRAPHIC: photo by Ben Curtis, AP; A camp near Seleah village in Sudan's
    West Darfur province.
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