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…), have caused great ecological devastation, and are also responsible for many acts and campaigns of ethnic cleansing and international terrorism, even genocide, that have taken place over the last 50 years. That this coalition should now be authorized…

…targeted for annihilation by a government. The Nazi state systematically implemented a plan to destroy all Jews simply because they existed. The destruction of European Jewry stands as the archetype of genocide in human history. Not all of the Jews in Europe…

…of African-American churches in the southern region of the United States, all reflect oppressive and sometimes genocidal acts against members of differing religious groups. Many witches, the lowest number being in the thousands, were burned at the stake, and put…

…rule over Cambodia was a genocide.…

…was never invaded and that it was only a process of colonisation. Some argue that European colonisation was an act of genocide and was in fact an invasion with the intention to take over and repopulate Aboriginal Australia. Reynolds (cited in Reed and Trompt…

…mention of Columbus’s genocide of the natives. This is one of the most heinous crimes a historian can commit, Zinn says, because “Outright lying or quiet omission takes the risk of discovery which, when made, might arouse the reader to rebel against…

…of this world-wide phenomenon. The Caribbean is comprised of mostly small island nations with small populations that were colonized by the European powers in the late 1500’s. The native people of the region are now long gone, due to the genocide that happened…

…important to remember the context of the Holocaust within the war. This was the first time in modern history that genocide was taken as far as it did in Nazi Germany. Many people could not comprehend of these crimes and most could not believe they were true…

…. (IN)famous psychological experiments support this assertion. Students were led to administer what they thought were “deadly” electric shocks to their colleagues or to treat them bestially in simulated prisons. They obeyed orders. So did all the hideous genocidal…

…World Wars occurred. Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia's labor camps killed tens of millions of people alone, almost all due to genocide. Then of course, the end of World War II marked the introduction of the nuclear bomb to war. There was The Russian…