Genocides in Europe include:
The first known and recorded genocide in Europe began with the Circassian Genocide in 1817 and the ethnic cleansing of the Circassian people by the Russians. Caucasus, a region at the border of Europe and Asia more known as an arena for political disputes between neighboring countries. Russia wanting the land to expand their territory decided to ethnically cleanse the people of Caucasus in 1817 killing about 400,000 people as well as urging those to leave the land. For more information on the Circassian Genocide visit: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/02/05/the_circassians_and_the_olympics_did_the_age_of_genocide_begin_in_sochi.html The Hamidian Massacre and Armenian Genocide were both initiated by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. When Ottoman officials decided to oppress the Armenians, Armenians refused to pay the increase of taxes instilling the Ottoman Empire to burn villages and kill 800,000+ Armenians. The Assyrian Genocide started around 1915 and similar to the Armenian Genocide had a big role with the oppression of Ottoman Empire. The only way the Turks could hold power and authority over such a large population was through violence leaving 750,000 Assyrians dead. Again, under the power of the Ottoman Empire, the Greeks were also exterminated by the Sultans in 1915 along with the Assyrians and Armenians ending the lives of 1.5 million Greeks. For more information on the Hamidian Massacre and Genocide visit: http://www.britannica.com/topic/Hamidian-massacres & http://www.britannica.com/event/Armenian-Genocide For more information on the Assyrian Genocide visit: http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/center-study-genocide-conflict-resolution-and-human-rights/assyrian-genocide-1914-1923-and-1933-pres For more information on the Greek Genocide visit: http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/center-study-genocide-conflict-resolution-and-human-rights/genocide-ottoman-greeks-1914-1923 The Decossackization Genocide consisted of the mass elimination of the Don and the Kuban Cossacks, this was led by Bolshevik party leaders in 1919 in Russia. The Don and Kuban Cossacks were targeted by Russians because of their wealth killing nearly 300,000 people. For more information on the Decossackization Genocide visit: http://www.massviolence.org/crimes-and-mass-violence-of-the-russian-civil-wars-1918?artpage=2 During the Holodomor Massacre the people of Ukraine were targeted and oppressed by the Russians under the rule of Stalin because they refused to collectively farm in order to help Russia, without Ukraine, Russia felt as though their empire would weaken and thus broke out into the massacre in 1932 killing millions. For more information on Holodomor visit: http://www.holodomorct.org/history.html The Dersim Massacre occurred in 1937 after the rebellion of Seyid Riza against the Turkification policies implemented by the Turkish government, the Turks proposed to ethnically cleans Kurds from Turkish society killing about 50,000 people. For more information on Dersim Massacre visit: http://kurdistantribune.com/2015/dersim-massacre-turkish-destruction-of-the-kurdish-people-in-the-dersim-region/ One of the most well known genocides in todays history, the Holocaust, a state sponsored execution of the Jewish in Germany by the Nazi's murdering six million jews. The Nazi's believed that the Jews were "evil" and having a negative impact on the lives of the Germans leading to the execution of millions. As well as the Jews of Nazi Germany, the Roma's were also murdered by Hitler and his followers during the time of the holocaust, killing nearly half a million Roma people. For more information on the Holocaust visit: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143 For more information on the Romani Genocide visit: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005219 During the Great Purge,the NKVD carried out against polish agents in the Soviet Union who were believed to be polish spies, killing about 150,000 people. For more information on the Polish Massacre visit: http://justice4poland.com/2015/01/01/massacre-of-poles-celebrated-in-new-ukraine/ Accused of working for the Nazi's, Operation Lentil was the extermination of the Vainakh people by the Soviet Union killing well over 500,000 people. For more information on Operation Lentil visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lentil_(Caucasus) Post WWI the tension between the people of Serbia and the people of Croatia who were both at the time a part of Yugoslavia grew high. The Serbians at the time had the largest national group controlling Yugoslavia while the Croatians wanted their seperate power. The Ustasha people, racist and wanting power established concentration camps murdering over 70,000 Serbians. For more information on the Ustasha Genocide visit: http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/thebalkansandturkey/a/Ustasha.htm Conducted by Ukrainian nationalists, the Volhynia Massacre was an anti-polish ethnic cleanse of 100,000 Polish people. For more information on the Volhynia Massacre visit: http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/ukrainian-righteous And lastly,the Srebrenica Massacre. In the country of Bosnia & Herzegovina , Bosnian-Serbs invaded the land of Srebrenica causing a mass murder of 9,000 Bosniak men and boys in the time span of 72 hours to promote a "Greater Serbia" killing off Bosnian muslims. For more information on the Srebrenica Massacre visit: http://www.britannica.com/event/Srebrenica-massacre |
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