genocide, what are 2 examples?

Question

not including the Holocausts or anything about native Americans in the USA
one past
one present
and include a little information.

Answer 1

The Armenian Genocide (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանութիւն, Turkish: Ermeni Soykırımı) — also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great Calamity (Մեծ Եղեռն) or the Armenian Massacre — refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands to over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.

Today, the Republic of Turkey rejects the notion that the event constituted a genocide and instead claims that the deaths among the Armenians were a result of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I. However, most Armenian, Russian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that it was indeed a genocide, or campaign of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing and mass extermination. For example, some Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll as evidence for a systematic, organized plan to eliminate the Armenians. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide, and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 21 countries, as discussed below, have officially recognised it as genocide.
The Rwandan Genocide (French: Génocide au Rwanda) was the massacre of an estimated 800,000 to 1,071,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, mostly carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, during a period of about 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994. [citation needed]

The Rwandan Genocide stands out as significant, not only because of the sheer number of people massacred in such a short period of time, but also because of how inadequately the United Nations (particularly, its Western members such as the United States, France and the United Kingdom) responded. Despite intelligence provided before the killing began, and international news media coverage reflecting the true scale of violence as the genocide unfolded, most first-world countries including France, Belgium, and the United States declined to intervene or speak out against the planned massacres. Canada continued to lead the United Nations Peace Keeping force in Rwandan territory.

The United Nations established UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda), in October 1993 "to help implement the Arusha Peace Agreement signed by the Rwandan parties on 4 August 1993"; its "mandate" ended in 1996 (UNAMIR official website). Prior to and during the genocide, the UN did not authorize UNAMIR to intervene and to use force quickly and/or effectively enough to halt the killing and other atrocities in Rwanda. While it "adjusted" UNAMIR's "mandate and strength . . . on a number of occasions in the face of the tragic events of the genocide and the changing situation in the country" (official website), given UN Security Council policy and various procedural constraints and other limitations imposed on UNAMIR, the United Nations failed to prevent the genocide. The leader of the U.N. mission was Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire.

In the weeks prior to the attacks, the UN did not respond to reports of Hutu militias amassing weapons and rejected plans for a preemptive interdiction. Despite numerous pre- and present-conflict warnings by Dallaire, the United Nations insisted on maintaining its rules of engagement and preventing its peacekeepers on the ground from engaging the militias or discharging their weapons, except in self-defense. Such failure to intervene in a timely and effective manner to halt the killing became the focus of bitter recriminations toward the United Nations, Western countries such as France and the United States, and individual policymakers, including Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh and U.S. President Bill Clinton, who described U.S. inaction as "the biggest regret of [his] administration."[1]

The genocide ended when a Tutsi-dominated expatriate rebel movement known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front, led by Paul Kagame, overthrew the Hutu government and seized power. Fearing reprisals, hundreds of thousands of Hutu and other refugees fled into eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). The violence and its memory have continued to affect the country and the region. Ethnic hatreds that fueled the Rwandan Genocide quickly spilled over into Congo, continuing after it ended and fueling both the First and Second Congo Wars. Ethnic rivalry between Hutu and Tutsi tribal factions is also a major factor in the Burundi Civil War.

Answer 2

Darfur (although the UN doesn't call it a genocide, the United States does) ----There are at least 180,000 dead and more than 2 million on the run. It all started two years ago in a part of Sudan called Darfur, where rebels looking for a measure of freedom revolted against Sudan's authoritarian Islamic government. The government apparently decided to end the revolt by trying to wipe out all of the native Africans in Darfur, to clear the territory for Arabs.

The Rwandan Genocide--Following independence from Belgium in 1962, the Hutu majority seized power and reversed the roles, oppressing the Tutsis through systematic discrimination and acts of violence. As a result, over 200,000 Tutsis fled to neighboring countries and formed a rebel guerrilla army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. In 1994, Rwanda plunged into political violence as Hutu extremists began targeting prominent opposition figures that were on their death-lists, including moderate Hutu politicians and Tutsi leaders.The killings then spread throughout the countryside as Hutu militia, armed with machetes, clubs, guns and grenades, began indiscriminately killing Tutsi civilians. All individuals in Rwanda carried identification cards specifying their ethnic background, a practice left over from colonial days. These 'tribal cards' now meant the difference between life and death.

There is so much information about both of these incidences. Just don't go to Wikipedia, the general public edits that and its unreliable.

Answer 3

The Armenian Genocide during WWI and The Genocide currently taking place in the Darfur region of western Sudan

Answer 4

(1) Ogoniland in Nigeria

Dutch Shell Oil has made deals with corrupt Nigerian officials to exploit the rich mineral rights of a small region, where the native people have been massacred trying to defend their land. Native leader, educator and organizer Ken Sarowiwa was killed by execution as a traitor, which brought public outcry by Amnesty International and other human rights groups worldwide due to the lack of open trial proceedings and other violations of due process.

(2) Rwanda, Gambia, Darfur, and other ongoing wars in Africa where opposing tribes are incited to slaughter each other.

(3) Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge genocide of Cambodian people

(4) Kashmir, located between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both countries, so local villagers have constantly suffered raids and massacres over control of their land.

(5) Indonesian invasion of East Timor

Answer 5

The Armenian Genocide when the Turks massacred the Armenians and native American genocides of the Inca and Mayan empires

Answer 6

Watch a movie called "Hotel Rwanda".... enough to bring a person to tears. Presently, there is still genocide going on in Darfur...I've included a link below that I found on the back of US News and World Reports magazine.

Answer 7

The Armenians were massacred by the Turks. Also there was some genocide in Bosnia and Kosovo. You can find the info.

Answer 8

The Tasmanian Aboriginals lived with the land for hundreds and upon hundreds of years and the place wiped out in in simple terms over 70 years by making use of eu Colonist's. The “finished-blood” Indigenous inhabitants dropped from 6,000 for the time of Tasmania in 1803 to 0 1876 whilst Truganini,the final finished-blood Aborigine died; even nonetheless there are various thousand “blended race” descendants of Tasmanian and Mainland Aborigines nonetheless living in Tasmania as we talk.