Genocide

Holocaust

As Adolf Hitler's Nationalist Socialist regime pursued its policies of Aryan supremacism, the Nazi regime began to eliminate all "undesirable" races: the Jews, the Slavs, gypsies, political and religious dissidents, homosexuals and the disabled.

As Pol Pot came to power in the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge took over the majority of Cambodia. Because the United States' bombing campaign during the Vietnam War weakened Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge was eventually able to enter the capital to institute a new, authoritarian regime. All opposition to the regime was exterminated in a genocidal campaign. Between 1975 and 1979, over 2 million Cambodians were targeted for destruction.

With the death of Josip Tito, Bosnia's long time authoritarian dictator, the combination of the emergence of nationalist politics and the militarization of Serbia and Croatia sparked the eruption of a three-sided civil war between the Bosnian-Serbs, Bosnian-Croats, and Bosnian-Muslims.

Mass atrocities of a genocidal level occurred when Armenian nationalists demanded greater autonomy under the Ottoman Empire towards the end of the nineteenth century. Veiled from the international community by the chaos of World War I, the Ottoman government intentionally murdered over 1 million Armenians from 1915 - 1923.