Anfal Genocide
Anfal Genocide On February 23, 1988, the Iraqi government launched the Anfal campaign against Kurdish populations in northern Iraq during the final phase of the Iran–...
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Anfal Genocide On February 23, 1988, the Iraqi government launched the Anfal campaign against Kurdish populations in northern Iraq during the final phase of the Iran–...
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Guatemalan Maya Genocide On March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala through a military coup during the Guatemalan Civil War. His governmen...
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East Timor Genocide On December 7, 1975, Indonesia launched a military invasion of East Timor following its declaration of independence from Portugal. The Indonesian ...
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The Nakba refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians that occurred between 1947 and 1949 during the collapse of the British Mandate for Palestin...
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David Ben-Gurion Controversial Statements Record On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote a letter to his son Amos following the Peel Commission’s proposal to parti...
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Simele Massacre On August 7, 1933, units of the Iraqi Army entered the town of Simele in northern Iraq during a military campaign targeting Assyrian communities. Tens...
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Greek Genocide On May 19, 1919, Greek communities in the Pontus region of the Ottoman Empire faced intensified military operations during the final phase of systemati...
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The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued on November 2 1917 by the British government during World War I expressing support for the establishment of a nat...
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Armenian Genocide On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. The arrests marked the b...
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Herero And Nama Genocide On January 12, 1904, members of the Herero community initiated an armed uprising against German colonial authorities in German South West Afr...
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The Selk'nam genocide refers to the systematic extermination of the Selk'nam people, indigenous inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in Patagonia, during th...
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The California Native American genocide refers to the systematic destruction and mass killing of Indigenous peoples in California during the mid-19th century, primaril...
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The Khoisan genocide refers to the systematic killings and displacement of the indigenous Khoisan peoples of Southern Africa during the 18th and 19th centuries. This g...
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The Tasmanian Aboriginal Genocide refers to the systematic extermination and dispossession of the indigenous Tasmanian population by British colonists during the early...
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The Ottoman Empire expanded from a small Anatolian principality into one of the largest empires in history. Between the fourteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ottom...
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Great Book Robbery of 1948 In 1948, during the Arab–Israeli War following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine, thousands of books and manuscripts were stolen...
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Moorish Invasion Of The Iberian Peninsula On April 30, 711, Umayyad forces led by the Berber commander Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from ...
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September 1922 — Greek defeat in Anatolia culminates in the destruction of much of Smyrna and mass displacement.
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1 January 1942 — By 1942 SS planning for a postwar German empire in Eastern Europe envisions massive population displacement, German settlement and racial reordering. ...
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