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NEVER AGAIN

A TALE OF GENOCIDE

Since the dawn of time, man has hated another men. Every race, another. Every religion, another. The history of man is drenched in blood.

Technology and machinery have made killing large groups of us easier. Explosives, firearms, and chemical weapons take out the personal and labor-intensive aspects of killing. It became so easy, that a new term was coined: genocide. This is a brief history of the tens of millions who died within the last century at the hand of genocide perpetrators.

ARMENIA

1915 - 1917

MILLION ARMENIANS KILLED OR IN EXILE

As with most genocides, it all began from suspicion. A new political party, the Young Turks, in the Ottoman Empire, were rising to power by instilling fear and suspicion against the government and against their neighboring nation, Armenia. By accessing media and propoganda, the Young Turks were able to spread fear of Christianity and of wealthy, educated people, also known as Armenians.

After having overthrown the Sultan, the nationalist Young Turks were posed to "purify" the country by destroying all of the nation's threats. Behind the curtain of World War I, the Young Turks took to exterminating all non-ethnic Turks: primarily the Armenians.

Turks decimated the Armenian population with mass arrests and killings. Victims were taken to the desert and painfully killed by poison, gas chambers, drowning, or primitive weapons. Those who survived the torture were left in the desert to rot in the blistering heat.

THE HOLOCAUST

1939 - 1945

NAZI GERMANY THREATENS TO EXTREMINATE JEWS

The most well-known genocide in history is the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist party, became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and Fürher in 1934. Hitler and the Nazi party blamed the ongoing economic struggles of Germany on Jews, and through propaganda and media control, were able to impose this philosophy on the German public.

Quickly after Hitler came to power, he began the process of "cleansing" the German population. All non-ethnic Germans, mostly Jews, were removed from the public eye, organizing them to ghettos before shipping them to forced labor camps. After getting caught in the spiderweb of the Jewish genocide, it was extremely difficult to get out.

Near the end of the war, Hitler's army worked hard to track down every remaining Jew. Up until Hitler's own death and the end of the war, the killing continued, eventually resulting in a death toll estimated between six and ten million.

CAMBODIA

1975 - 1979

WHEN THE REPORTERS LAUGHED OFF A BLOODBATH

The Cambodian genocide was yet another purification attempt of the nation of Cambodia. Rural Cambodians were distraught after the countryside was destroyed by the Vietnam War. The Khmer Rouge promised to return Cambodia to a simpler time, before it was contaminated with ethnically Vietnamese and Chinese people, with wealth and high education.

Khmer Rouge's leader, Pol Pot, rose to power, promising to fix Cambodia's wealth and education gaps. He would do this by promoting mass killings in cities. Cities were stormed by Khmer Rouge soldiers, and citydwellers were taken to labor death camps, just like the Holocaust.

The Khmer Rouge envisioned a return to the Dark Ages, before cities, medicine, art, or science. Labor camps had people working 18 consecutive hours per day, with little to no food. Less fortunate prisoners were killed not with weapons, but by blunt trauma, with fatal blows to the head and neck.

RWANDA

1994

HELL ON EARTH: RACING AGAINST DEATH IN RWANDA

For decades, the Hutu tribe of Rwanda grew extremely suspicious of another tribe, the Tutsi. After Rwanda became an independent nation, the Hutus percieved that Tutsis were getting preferential treatment in foreign affairs, became wealthier, and thought themselves to be superior.

In the early 1990s, the Hutus began their efforts to exterminate every Tutsi in Rwanda. Hutus already controlled the government, so extreme nationalist Hutus, or Interahamwe, were able to use media to promote the genocidal initiative. On April 6, 1994, the Hutu president's plane was shot down, and the killing began.

For 100 days, from April 7 - July 15, 1994, the Interahamwe exploded into a frenzy of mass killing, rape, and torture. Since all Tutsis were forced to carry ID cards, Interahamwe killers could quickly identify and destroy the enemy. Children were left without parents, and whole towns were set aflame, and the residents were burned alive.

BOSNIA

1995

ETHNIC CLEANSING CONTINUES IN SERB-CONTROLLED BOSNIA

Former President Josip Tito was the glue that held Yugoslavia together. By imposing a regimen of non-nationalism, he was able to bind the provinces into one nation, Yugoslavia. When he died in 1980, he was succeeded by a bloodthirsty Serbian madman: Slobodan Milošević.

Milošević, first and foremost, tried to disband all of the work that Tito did to maintaining the greater-good mindset. He rallied his campaign specifically to favor the Serbians, and promised a stronger Serbia when he was elected.

After being put in power, Milošević went to work secretly exterminating Bosnian Muslims. Serb forces went into the border region of Srebrenica, with the intent to rape, pilfer, and kill in an effort to ethnically cleanse the territory. World powers took notoriously long to respond to the genocide, but the perpetrators died relatively soon after the killings.

AGAIN