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Often, youth feel passionately about injustices taking place the world over, but do not feel they can make a difference.
Well, you can. In the last century, the world has seen many injustices, including Armenia; the Holocaust; Cambodia; Bosnia; and Rwanda. Each time, the world said, "Never again" - and yet we have remained silent time and time again!
Today, the genocide in Darfur continues unabated, with over a million people at risk of starvation and death. But you CAN do something about today's latest genocide in Darfur. Google one of the many web sites involved in rallying support for ending the genocide, and get involved in whatever way you feel will make a difference, including lobbying politicians to stop the silence. Then submit your information to this website so that it is easier for others to get involved.
Review the list below to see the full range of genocides in just the last 100 years.
| Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69) |
49,000,000 ("great leap forward" and "cultural revolution") |
| Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1934-39) |
13,000,000 (the purges) |
| Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) |
12,000,000 (concentration camps and civilians WWII) |
| Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44) |
5,000,000 (civilians WWII) |
| Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) |
1,700,000 |
| Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) |
1.6 million (purges and concentration camps) |
| Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78) |
1,500,000 |
| Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915) |
1,200,000 Armenians |
| Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970) |
1,000,000 |
| Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) |
900,000 |
| Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994) |
800,000 |
| Suharto (East Timor, 1976-98) |
600,000 |
| Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88) |
600,000 |
| Yahya Khan (Pakistan, 1971) vs Bangladesh |
500,000 |
| Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39) |
500,000? (Chinese civilians) |
| Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002) |
400,000 |
| Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001) |
400,000 |
| Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979) |
300,000 |
| Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Yugoslavia, WWII) |
300,000 |
| Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire, 1965-97) |
? |
| Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996) |
220,000 |
| Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000) |
200,000 |
| Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) |
180,000 |
| Michel Micombero (Burundi, 1972) |
150,000 |
| Hassan Turabi (Sudan, 1989-1999) |
100,000 |
| Jean-Bedel Bokassa (Centrafrica, 1966-79) |
? |
| Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974) |
70,000 (vietnamese civilians) |
| Efrain Rios Montt (Guatemala, 1982-83) |
70,000 |
| Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71) |
60,000 |
| Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990) |
40,000 |
| Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947) |
30,000 (popular uprising) |
| Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) |
30,000 (dissidents executed) |
| Francisco Franco (Spain) |
30,000 (dissidents executed after the civil war) |
| Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968) |
30,000 |
| Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000) |
25,000 |
| Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89) |
20,000 |
| Guy Mollet (France, 1956-1957) |
10,000 (war in Algeria) |
| Paul Koroma (Sierra Leone, 1997) |
6,000 |
| Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001) |
3,500 |
| Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973) |
3,000 |
| Rafael Videla (Argentina, 1976-83) |
3,000 |
| Al Zarqawi (Iraq, 2004-06) |
2,000 |
Source: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
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