Select List of Genocides Perpetrated
in the 20th & 21st Centuries
  • Various indigenous populations across the globe (1900-present)

  • German genocide of the Hereros in Southwest Africa (1904)

  • Ottoman Turk genocide of Armenians (1915-1923)

  • Soviet Manmade Famine in Ukraine (1933)

  • Nazi-perpetrated Holocaust of Jews, physical and mentally handicapped, and Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) (1933-1945)

  • Indonesian mass slaughter of Communists and suspected Communists (1965-1966)

  • Bangladesh genocide (1971)

  • Tutsi government troops' genocide of Hutus in Burundi (1972)

  • Indonesian-perpetrated genocide of East Timorese (1975-early 1990s)

  • Khmer Rouge genocide of Cambodians (1975-1979)

  • Genocide of Mayans by Guatemalan government troops and militia (1980s through early 1990s)

  • Iraqi gassing of Kurds in northern Iraq (1988)

  • Sudan government's genocide of Nuba (late 1980s-1990s)

  • Rwandan genocide perperat5ed by extremist Hutus against Tutsis and moderate Hutus (1994)

  • Serb-perpetrated genocide against Muslim boys and men of Srebrenica (1995)

  • Government of Sudan and Janjaweed (Arab militia) of black Africans of Darfur, Sudan (2003-present)