Modern Genocide

With most places around the world scheduled to remember the Holocaust on January 27th you will most likely hear everyone say the phrase “Never Again” meaning they learned that doing nothing from 1933-1945 allowed millions of innocent men, women and children to die and that since 1945 the world has worked to help stop future genocides. Of course that is clearly not what happened.

Here is the accepted official list of victims of the Holocaust: 

- Jews:   6 million people

- Soviet civilians:  7 million people (including 1.3 million Soviet Jewish civilians, who are included in the 6 million figure for Jews) 

-  Soviet prisoners of war: 3 million soldiers (including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers) 

- Non-Jewish Polish civilians: around 1.8 million people

- Serb civilians (on the territory of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina): 312,000 

- People with disabilities: 250,000 people

- Gypsies: 196,000–220,000 people

- Jehovah's Witnesses:  1,900 people

- Repeat criminal offenders and so-called asocials:   70,000 people

- Homosexuals:  5,000 to 15,000 people held in concentration camps with 60% of those murdered.

Here are the genocides since 1945:

-  Indonesian genocide (1965–1966): Politicide, mass murder, genocide of 500,000 to 3,000,000 Targeted Groups: PKI members, sympathizers, atheists, "unbelievers", and ethnic Chinese by the Indonesian Army.

- 1971 Bangladesh genocide (1971): Deportation, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, genocidal rape of 300,000 to 3,000,000 Bengalis by the Pakistani Government.

-  Burundian genocide (1972): Mass murder of 80,000 to 210,000 Hutus by the Tutsi-dominated army.

- East Timorese genocide (1974–1999): Forced disappearance, Genocidal massacre of 100,000 to 300,000 East Timorese by the Indonesian Government.

-  Cambodian genocide (1975–1979): Genocide, classicide, politicide, torture, famine, forced labor, deportation, crimes against humanity of 1.7 to 1.9 million people. Target Groups: Cambodia's previous military and political leadership, business leaders, journalists, students, doctors, lawyers, Buddhists, Chams, Chinese Cambodians, Christians, intellectuals, Thai Cambodians, Vietnamese Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge.

- Guatemalan genocide (1981–1983): Forced disappearance, genocidal massacre, torture, sexual violence, crimes against humanity of 32,632 to 166,000 Mayans by the Guatemalan Government.

- Kurdish genocide (1986–1989): Genocide, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, forced disappearance, counter-insurgency of 50,000 to 180,000 Kurds by the Iraqi Government.

- Isaaq genocide (1988–1989): Genocidal massacre, state crime, mass murder, forced disappearance of 50,000 to 100,000 Isaaq by the Somali Government.

- Burundian genocide (1993): Mass Murder of 25,000 Tutsi by the Hutus.

-  Rwandan genocide (1994): Genocide and mass murder of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi, Twa, and moderate Hutus by the Hutu Government.

- Bosnian genocide (1992–1995): Genocide, Mass murder, ethnic cleansing, deportation, concentration camps and genocidal rape. 200,000 people were killed (12,000 of them children) 50,000 women were raped, and 2.2 million were forced to flee their homes (ethnic cleansing). Target Group: Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) by the Serbs and the Bosnian Serbs.

- Bambuti genocide (2002-2003): Genocidal massacre, Ethnic cleansing, cannibalism, war rape of 60,000 to 70,000 Bambuti by the Movement for the Liberation of Congo.

- Darfur genocide (2003–): Genocide and mass murder of 100,000 to 400,000 people. Target Groups: Darfuri men, women, and children from Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes by the Sudanese Government.

- Genocides by ISIS (2014–): Genocidal massacre, ethnic cleansing, forced conversion. Target groups: Yazidi with 4,400 killed and 10,800 kidnapped and held captive and Christians (Assyrians, Arab Christians, Levantines, Armenians, and Copts) with unknown hundreds of thousands killed and 135,000 refugees displaced by ISIS. 

-  Rohingya genocide (2017–): Genocide, gang rapes, ethnic and religious persecution of 10,000  Rohingya people with 700,000 forced to become refuges by local Buddhists and the Myanmar Government. 

The world (especially the UN) literally watched as millions upon millions of innocent men, women and children were mass murdered, raped and/or ethnically cleansed. UN peacekeepers saw these genocidal crimes first-hand and did nothing to help in: Rwanda, Sudan and Bosnia and Herzegovina. So saying “Never Again” may sound like a good phrase to use, but actions speak louder than words and the inactions of the UN, the EU member states, Canada, The UK, Russia, the US and the rest of the world shows the truth.