Source: The
History Place
Genocide in the 20th Century
Adolf Hitler
to his Army commanders, August 22, 1939: "Thus for the time
being I have sent to the East only my 'Death's Head Units' with
the orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women,
and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital
space
that we need. Who still talks nowadays about the Armenians?"
The term 'Genocide' was coined by Polish writer and attorney, Raphael
Lemkin, in 1941 by combining the Greek word 'genos' (race) with the Latin
word 'cide' (killing). Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948
means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in
whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including:
(a) killing members of the group (b) causing serious bodily or mental
harm to members of the group (c) deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births
within the group (e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another
group.
Recent to Past Occurrences
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths Source
Rwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths Source
Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths Source
Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 - 6,000,000 Deaths Source
Rape of Nanking: 1937-1938 - 300,000 Deaths Source
Stalin's Forced Famine: 1932-1933 - 7,000,000 Deaths Source
Armenians in Turkey: 1915-1918 - 1,500,000 Deaths Source
Author/Bibliography Source
History of Genocide Source ...
covers from Biblical down through the centuries including American
genocides.
