human rights violations during World War I?

Question

Help please? It is a project for school.

Answer 1

1. Genocide by the Turkish - 1,500,000 Armenians died 1915-18
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/armenians.htm
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/

2. German atrocities in Belgium
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/germanatrocities_usreport.htm

3. Internment of civilians - some examples
a) Germans in Australia
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/dnutting/germanaustralia/e/internment.htm
b) Ukranians in Canada
http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/badly_treated_in_every_way/
http://ukrhistory.tripod.com/index-10.htm
c) Germans in China and Siam
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/versailles118-158.htm

4. Deportations and expropriations - some smaller countries only entered the war to confiscate wealth
a) Liberia - German residents
http://www.first-world-war.org/liberia.htm
b) Guatemala - German-owned coffee plantations
http://www.first-world-war.org/guatemala.htm
c) Cuba - German merchant ships
http://www.first-world-war.org/cuba.htm

Answer 2

The British dropped poisonous gas on Iraqi civilians in areas where the villagers were raising a fuss about being occupied by infidel foreign troops.

The idea is referred to by Winston Churchill in one of his speeches. Here is the quote:

"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected...

"We cannot, in any circumstances acquiesce to the non-utilisation of any weapons which are available to procure a speedy termination of the disorder which prevails on the frontier."