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Herero and Nama Genocide

the extermination of the Herero and Nama tribes in Namibia by the German colonizers

Armenian Genocide

in the territories of the Ottoman Empire the “Great Evil” of the Armenian people takes place

Holodomor

the genocide by starvation perpetrated by the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian population

Shoah

the genocide of the Jewish population and culture perpetrated by the Nazi regime

Gulag

concentration camps created and managed by the Soviet regime from 1918 to 1987

Cambodian Genocide

the cleansing process perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot since 1975

Guatemalan Genocide

the extermination of the Mayan community by the country’s military regimes

Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Balkans

extermination during the war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia

Rwandan Genocide

the extermination of the Tutsis and moderate Hutu

Apartheid

the racial segregation policy of the South African white ethnic government

Mafia

a criminal power, which occupies the void left by the State in the territories where it is established

Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism

an extremist ideology that uses religion to justify violence

Rohingya Genocide

the ethnic cleansing of the “stateless people”, at the hands of the Burmese government

Yazidi Genocide

in 2014, in the lands of the Armenian genocide, the Isis carried out a new extermination, that of the Yazidi people

Uyghurs

more than one million Uyghurs are subjected to forced labor, through which China seeks to eradicate the cultural and religious identity of this Islamic minority