| Description | Genocide |
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| 2nd most devasting genocide of the 20th Century. Massive famines in 'satellite countries.' Happened between 1929 and 1935. | |
| Perpetrated during WWII at the hands of an occupying force, almost all deaths were civilian. 5,000,000 victims estimated. | |
| Centered in Europe, committed by fascist Regime. Targeted Poles, Slavs, Jews and Gypsies. Over 12,000,000 killed. | |
| First event to be deemed 'Genocide,' occurred during WWI in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, targeted peoples for ethnic reasons. | |
| | Description | Genocide |
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| Civil War in this country from 1968-1996 between the oppressive dictatorship and the people. America's CIA responsible for the appointment of the dictatorship. | |
| Occurred against the Kurdish ethnic group between the years 1980 and 1990, as well as periodically afterwards. Resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 Kurdish. | |
| Occurred after and during American involvement in Vietnam, educated people and former classes of nobility killed. Over 1,500,000 dead. | |
| Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs killed each other if they were on the 'wrong side.' | |
| | Description | Genocide |
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| In 1937, dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered Haitians the Dominican Republic executed. If civilians couldn't pronounce parsley in Spanish they were assumed Haitian and killed. | |
| First genocide of the 20th century. From 1904-1907, at most 100,000 members of two local native tribes died after the European colonial rule drove them into the Namib Desert. | |
| July 1995 killing of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims during the Bosnian War. | |
| Shortest running genocide of the century, based on resentment for the Tutsi ethnic group from the Hutu majority. Resulted in almost 1,000,000 Tutsi deaths. | |
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