Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
The Nanking Massacre Not many people know or understand what really happened in Nanking, China during the Nanking Massacre. The Nanking Massacre, also known as “The Rape of Nanking,” is an example of inhuman treatment by the Japanese Army to Chinese civilians. In the incident, many Chinese civilians were tortured, raped and murdered. The torture that the Japanese applied to the native population at Nanking almost surpasses the limits of human comprehension and includes live burials, mutilation and dog attacks. Japanese soldiers would force one group of Chinese captives to dig a grave, a second group to bury the first, and then a third group to bury the second and so on.
Terror filled the streets of Nanjing; Japanese forced their way into the homes of innocent Chinese civilians. The Japanese forces killed anyone that was in there way. In two days the death toll totaled more than 50,000 giving the streets the name “Streets of Blood” (Yao) as the bodies of humans began to litter the streets. The only hope for the refugees to escape was to cross the Yangtze River. Upon arriving at the river the refugees found themselves trapped with no transportation.
The presidential guards recruited a mass amount of Hutu citizens to join them in the killing spree. The Hutu citizens were given money or food and sometimes were able to take the land of the Tutsis they killed. The next day RPF declared war on the government forces once again. The result of this was an estimated 800,000 deaths in total for both sides (PPU "Genocide Rwanda”). This civil war finally ended in July when the RPF took control of Kigali the capital of Rwanda.
The genocide in Darfur, Sudan has already caused hundreds of thousands of Darfuris to die and cause more than 2 million people to be homeless. The genocide began in early 2003 when members of two rebel groups revolted against the Sudanese government in Khartoum alleging systematic neglect of the inhabitants of Darfur. The two rebel groups are the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). The government responded by launching an assault against these two rebel groups. Black Arabs were being discriminated against because they were black and they were being told that they weren't in the right religion.
The Japanese army, determined to take China and use its vast resources to fuel their defeat of the Oriental half of the world, marched through China in 1937, laying waste to everything they marched through. As the Chinese realized what they were facing, they burned and destroyed fuel, food, and anything else that might help the Japanese as they approached Nanking. Soldiers, knowing they would be executed if caught in or out
Adriana Brown Ms. Wheelock Hour 4 7 November 2011 Genocide in the 20th Century: The Rape of Nanking 1937-1938 Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre also known as Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder, genocide and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing (Nanking), the former capital of the Republic of China, on December 13, 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During this period hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 20,000–80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. The estimation death toll in the massacre has not been achieved because most of the Japanese military records on the killings were deliberately destroyed or kept secret shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945. Although, the military estimated more than 200,000 casualties in the incident, China's official estimate is about 300,000 casualties, based on the evaluation of the Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal. The actual military invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937.
The Rape of Nanjing Many genocides are forgotten by most people. One of these genocides is Nanjing. Nanjing, also known as Nanking, was a brutal mass murdering of the Chinese by the Japanese that took place in the capital of china, Nanjing, during the 1930's. They took everything from the Chinese citizens such as their homes, money, and their most valuable items. They were deprives of everything they earned through hard work.
More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were killed because of their nationality. Poles, as well as other Slavs, were targeted for slave labor, and as a result, almost two million perished. Homosexuals and others deemed "anti-social" were also persecuted and often
The Holocaust (from the Greek holókaustos meaning “burnt whole”) was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, lasting from 1939-1945. It was a systematic killing programme overseen by the ruling German Nazi party throughout the lands they occupied. Of the nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds died. The question so often asked is: what caused this atrocity? Discrimination against Jews In the year 70 AD the Romans banished the original Jews from their homeland, Israel.