Anne Frank in the World, 1929 - 1945 Teacher Workbook

Genocidal Acts During The Twentieth Century

Year	Victim	Perpetrator	UN Recognized
1904	Heroes of southern Africa 65,000 out of 80,00 killed	German Gov't	Yes
1915-22	Armenians of Turkey	Ottoman Empire	Yes
1918-21	Jews living in the Ukraine 100,00 - 250,000 by pogroms	Ukrainian	Yes
1932-33	Ukrainians 38 million by imposed famine	USSR Gov't	No
1936-39	Soviet political dissenters 400,000-500,000	USSR Gov't	No
1939-45	Jews of Europe 6 million Jews 5 million others including Gypsies, handicapped, homosexuals, and others	Nazi Gov't of Germany	Yes
1950 - 59	Buddhists in Tibet	Chinese Gov't	No
1965	"Communists" in Indonesia 600,000 political opponents	Indonesian Gov't	No
1965-1972	Hutus in African Nation of Burundi 100,000 - 300,000	The Tutsi	Yes
1965- Present	Guatemalan Indians	Government Troops	No
1966	Iho people of N. Nigeria	Government Troops	No
1971	Bengalis in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) 1-3 million	Pakistani Gov't	No
1972	Ache Indians of Paraguay	Paraguayan Gov't	Yes
1975-1979	Cambodians 3 million	Pol Pot's Khemer Rouge Gov't	Yes
1975-present	Citizens of East Timor 100,000	Indonesian Troops	No
1980-present	Members of the Baha'i religion in Iran	Gov't of Ayatollah Khomeini	Yes
1991-Present	Kurds of Iraq	Iraqi Gov't	No
1992-Present	Muslims of Bosnia	Croats and Serbs	Yes

Genocide Is the deliberate destruction of a racial. religious. ethnic or national group. The United Nations drafted an International Genocide Treaty following World War I. It was approved in 1948. The United States ratified the treaty in 1988. The United Nations Genocide Treaty does not include mass killings of class, gender, or political groups which accounts for the lack of recognition on many of the acts listed. Current scholarship includes these groups.