The Cruelest Massacres of 20th Century

The twentieth century was full of blood and violence, and many of the crimes that took the lives of thousands of people have apparently forgotten.

Herero and Nama

In the early 20th century, from 1904 to 1908 there were killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama peoples in what is now Namibia. The massacre took place at a time when Germany was colonialist powers in this area. General Lothar von Trotha issued in 1904 an order to fire on all members of these two nations weather they were armed or not. The first German colony was called German South-West Africa. There were killed about 70,000 Herero and about 7,00 Nama people.

Murders the Assyrians and Greeks

At the time of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians were not the only victims. It is assumed that 250,000 Assyrians, mostly Christians, who lived in Mesopotamia were killed by the Ottoman army during the First World War II. Most governments recognize that this plague was actually the genocide.

At the same time in Anatolia were killed hundreds of thousands of Greek Orthodox Christians. Official number do not exists, but it is estimated that there were killed more than a million people. Since 1994, Greece celebrates this massacre as genocide.

Horrific Golodomor

From 1932 to 1933, ten million Ukrainians, which was then a third of the population of this country, died because of pandemic hunger.

People were starving and the majority of them were forced to eat other people. In addition, entire villages were disappearing over the night. About 25,000 people were dying every day. This event is also considered as genocide because this starvation was planned by Soviet leader Stalin.

The reason for this was the resistance of the Ukrainian peasants who refused to accept Russian’s economic policy. Since 2006, this event is called genocide, but Russia and the Soviet Union before it refuses to pay compensation to the families of the victims.

Massacre in Nanjing

In Nanking, which was the capital of China in the past, the Japanese killed more than 3000,000 people in 1937, mostly captured soldiers and civilians.

The slaughtering lasted six weeks and the city was completely destroyed after this. Historian this event named "Rape of Nanking" and compared to the Holocaust.

The persecution of Germans

Germans were expelled from Easter Europe after the lost war. Those who lived on Polish territory, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia had to return to Austria and Germany because they were evicted forcibly from their homes. In that way, about 12 million Germans were displaced, and more than 470,000 people were killed on their way.

Genocide in Bangladesh

After 1947, part of India has experienced one of the greatest migrations in history during which some two million people lost their lives. After that, Pakistan remained divided between India and a small province of East Bengal, which was later renamed East Pakistan. This division had large and lasting consequences. West Pakistan in 1971 went to the Bengal army, and after nine months of warfare was created Bangladesh. The conflict has spawned 10 million refugees, 200,000 women were raped, according to the unofficial data, about three million people were killed.