Since the beginning of mankind many unfortunate and devastating events have occurred where many people of one group have been murdered. These have been known as genocides and some of them are the Bosnian, Rwandan, and Darfur genocides, but the largest genocide of them all was the Holocaust.
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The HolocaustThe Holocaust was a terrible time in Germany in 1945 when Adolf Hitler was leader. Hitler was an anti-Semitic Nazi leader who believed that the Jews were an alien threat to the German community and that they were an inferior race. Hitler was able to use the power of his words to get all of the Germans to see the Jews in a way he did. Once they saw the way he did concentration camps were set up and Jews were hated and killed.
Bosnian GenocideIn 1992, the Bosnian genocide started when the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslav. Over the next couple of years, Bosnian forces teamed up with the Serb dominated Yugoslav army to target both Bosniak(Bosnian Muslim) and Croatian civilians. They were targeted for atrocious crimes that people thought they had committed. By 1985 mostly Bosniaks had been killed but a good bit of Croatians had been killed as well.
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Rwandan Genocide
Beginning in April of 1994, many people belonging to the Hutu ethnic majority were slaughtering people of the Tutsi minority. It had begun in Kigali of Rwanda but quick spread across Rwanda quickly. People were killing neighbors and friends that were either Tutsis or moderate Hutus with what ever they could find. By the time that the Rwandese Patriotic Front could take back control of Rwanda, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus had been murdered.
Darfur Genocide
The Darfur genocide began in 2003 and is the mass slaughter and rape of Darfuri men, women and children in Western Sudan. The genocide is being performed by a group of funded Arab militias that are government armed known as the Janjaweed. The militias have historic tensions partly with Sudan because they are rivals of the Sudanese Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement. Over 480,000 people have been killed and over 2.8 million displaced, however, there are still small acts of it being performed today.
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