GENOCIDEAfter WW II

China

• 1949 – 1987• People's Republic of China

(communist) – Leader: Mao Ze Dong– People’s Republic of China Army

• Anti-Mao, Muslims, Christians– Really anyone against Mao

• 40 million (30 million were from famine)• Political, Class, Religious, Ethnic

– Silence the Opposition!• Stage 7: Extermination

Iraq

• 1961 – 2003• Government (Baath party)

– Leader: Saddam Hussein– Iraq Army, Presidential Guards

• Kurds and Shiites• 190,000• Political, religious, ethnic• Stage 8: Denial

– Hussein found guilty and hung

Cambodia

• 1975 – 1979• Khmer Rouge (communist)

– leader Pol Pot– died peacefully

• Class Enemies, Muslims, City People– Anyone against the regime

• especially intellectuals

• Approx. 1.7 million• return Cambodia to a peasant state

Sudan

• 1985

• Government and Muslim Militia

• Animist and Christians

• 200,000 (estimate – think it is higher)– Millions Dislocated (removed/fled)

• Religious

Rwanda

• 1994

• Rwandan Armed Forces and Hutu militia

• Tutsi – minority tribe – Also, moderate Hutu

• 800,000

• Political, Ethnic

Bosnia Herzegovina

• 1995 – 1999

• Serbian Orthodox – Leader: Slobodan Milosevic – Died: heart attack in prison

• Catholics and Muslims

• 200,000

• Ethnic, Religious

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• 1997 – present

• Government, Congo Army, War Lord led militias

• Civilians

• 2.5 million

• Political, Ethnic, Economic, Civil War

Kosovo

• 1998 – 1999

• Serbian Orthodox Christians

• Albanian Muslims

• 400,000 Displaced– Deaths unknown

• Ethnic, Religious

Darfur (Sudan)

• 2003 – present

• Government, Janjaweed, Arab militias

• Non-Arab population

• 250,000 plus

• Racial, Ethnic, Political

Uganda

• 2011 (if law passes)

• Government (Judicial Murder)– Copied American fundamentalist– In you know and don’t tell - JAIL

• Gay, lesbian, etc.

• 5% of population

• Lifestyle Choice