List of genocides

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The following is a list of all genocides which have a upper estimated death count over 1000:

The Holocaust
German crimes committed against Soviet war prisoners
Holodomor
German Crimes Against Poland
Circassian genocide
Cambodian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
Greek Genocide
Dzungar genocide
Genocide in Bangladesh
Assyrian genocide
Holocaust in Croatia
Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War
Romani Genocide
Polish Operation of the NKVD
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
Genocide of Acholi and Lango people under Idi Amin
Darfur Genocide
East Timor Genocide
Ikiza
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Effacer le tableau
Isaaq genocide
Anfal Genocide
Genocide against Bosniaks and Croats by the Chetniks
Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
Herero and Namaqua genocide
Guatemalan genocide
California Genocide
Queensland Aboriginal genocide
Rohingya genocide
Bosnian genocide
Parsley massacre
1804 Haiti Massacre
Selk'nam genocide
Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State
Moriori Genocide
Black War
Ingrian Genocide
Tamil Genocide (Eezham Genocide, Sri Lanka)
Gaza War

Genocide

Genocides
(list by death toll)

Before 1490
Destruction of Carthage (146 BCE) Asiatic Vespers (88 BCE) Gauls (50s BCE) Eburones Bar Kokhba (132–136) Ancestral Puebloans (800s) Harrying of the North (1069–1070) Mongol conquests (1200s–1360s) Cathars (1209–1229) Mongols in the Delhi Sultanate (1311) Assyria (1393–1394) Guanches (1402–1496)

1490 to 1913

Taíno (1492–1514)
Ainu (1500s–)
Indigenous peoples in Brazil (1500–)
Kashmiri Shias (1548–1872)
Huguenots (1572)
Kalinago (1626)
Lameyans (1636)
Pequots (1636–1638)
Huron (1640–1649)
Jews in the Cossack Hetmanate (1648–1657)
Indigenous peoples in Canada
- Beothuk (1700s–1800s)
- Residential school system (1874–1996)
1740 Batavia massacre (1740)
Great Gypsy Round-up (1749)
Dzungars (1750s)
Chechens (1785–2017)
Indigenous peoples in Australia
- Black War (1825–1832)
- Stolen Generations (1869–1977)
Al-Jawazi massacre (1816)
Siege of Tripolitsa (1821)
Indigenous peoples in the United States
- Indian removal (1830–1847)
- Trail of Tears (1830–1850)
- California (1846–1873)
- Sand Creek massacre (1864)
Charrúa (1831)
Moriori (1835)
Manchus (1850–1864)
Circassians (1860s)
Putumayo genocide (1879–1913)
Hazaras (1888–1893)
Selk'nam (1890s–1900s)
Hamidian massacres (1894–1896)
Herero and Nama (1904–1907)
Ukame (1905–1907)
Osage Indian murders (1910s–1930s)
Persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction
- Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars (1912–1913)

1913 to 1945

Late Ottoman genocides
- Greeks (1913–1922)
  - Pontic Greeks
- Thracian Bulgarians (1913)
- Assyrians (1915–1919)
- Armenians (1915–1917)
- Christians in Diyarbekir (1915)
- Kurds (1916–1934)
Kyrgyz (1916–1917)
Cossacks (1919–1933)
Ingrian Finns (1920s–1930s)
Kantō Massacre (1923)
Napalpí massacre (1924)
Kinder der Landstrasse (1926–1973)
Libyan Arabs (1929–1932)
Kazakhs (1930–1933)
La Matanza (1932)
Holodomor (1932–1933)
Simele massacre (1933)
Romani Holocaust (1935–1945)
Polish Operation (1937–1938)
Parsley massacre (1937)
Nanjing Massacre (1937–1938)
Poles (1939–1945)
Three Alls policy (1940–1942)
The Holocaust (1941–1945)
German atrocities committed against Soviet POWs (1941–1945)
Serbs in Croatia (1941–1945)
Muslims and Croats (1941–1945)
Sook Ching (1942)
Nanshitou Massacre (1942–1945)
Volhynia (1943–1945)
Chechens and Ingush (1944–1948)
Crimean Tatars (1944–1948)

1946 to 1999

Hyderabadi Muslims (1948)
Indigenous peoples in Paraguay (1956–1989)
Guatemalan (1962–1996)
Arabs in Zanzibar (1964)
1966 anti-Igbo pogrom (1966)
Biafra (1966–1970)
Feyli Kurds (1970–2003)
Bangladesh (1971)
Burundi
- 1972
- 1993
East Timor (1974–1999)
Cambodian (1975–1979)
Chittagong Hill Tracts (1977–1997)
Sabra and Shatila massacre (1982)
Sri Lankan Tamils (1983–2009)
Gukurahundi (1983–1987)
Anfal (1986–1989)
Isaaq (1987–1989)
Amhara (1990–)
Ahwaris (1991–2003)
Bosnian (1992–1995)
- Srebrenica massacre
Rwandan (1994)
Massacres of Hutus during the First Congo War (1996–1997)

21st century
Effacer le tableau (2002–2003) Darfur (2003–) Masalit massacres Southern Kaduna (2011–2023) Iraqi Turkmen (2014–2017) Yazidis (2014–2017) Shias under ISIS (2014–) Christians under ISIS (2014–) Rohingya (2017–) Gaza Strip (2023–)

Terms

Democide
- Autogenocide
Politicide
- Classicide
  - Eliticide
Ethnocide
Cultural genocide
Eugenics
Gendercide
Transgender genocide
Genocide of indigenous peoples
Policide
Utilitarian genocide
Mass killing
Domicide

Methods

Rape
Ethnic cleansing
Extermination camp
Massacres
- Killing Fields
- Pogroms
Death marches
Death squads
Incitement

Denial

The Holocaust
- Trivialization
Armenian
Serbian
Bosnian
Rwandan
Holodomor
Cambodian
Indigenous

Issues

Definitions
- Names of the Holocaust
- Terminology of the Armenian genocide
- Holocaust terminology
Genocide law
Prevention
Effects on young survivors
Politics of recognition
Justification
Mass killings under communist regimes
Anti-communist mass killings

Legal proceedings

Holocaust trials (1943–2022)

Krasnodar trial (1943)
Kharkov trial (1943)
Épuration légale (1944–1951)
Majdanek trials (1944–1989)
Chełmno trials (1945–2001)
Dachau trials (1945–1947)
Belsen trials (1945–1948)
Euthanasia trials (1945–1949)
Nuremberg trial (1945–1946)
Minsk trial (1945–1946)
Riga trial (1946)
Stutthof trials (1946–1947)
Post–World War II Romanian war crime trials (1946–1953)
Supreme National Tribunal (1946–1948)
Hamburg Ravensbrück trials (1946–1948)
Nuremberg Military Tribunals (1946–1949)
Erich von Manstein (1949)
Ulm Einsatzkommando trial (1958)
War crimes trials in Soviet Estonia (1961–1962)
Eichmann trial (1961)
Belzec trial (1963–1965)
Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (1963–1989)
Treblinka trials (1964–1970)
Sobibor trial (1965–1966)
Fedorenko trial (1986)
Finta trial (1994)

20th century

Budak trial (1945)
International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1946–1948)
Belgrade Process (1946)
Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948)
Bosnian genocide case (1993–2007)
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1993–2017)
- Slobodan Milošević (2002–2006)
- Radovan Karadžić (2008–2016)
- Ratko Mladić (2011–2017)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1994–2015)
Khmer Rouge Tribunal (1997–2022)
Croatia–Serbia genocide case (1999–2015)

21st century
International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh (2012–) Rohingya genocide case (2019–) Uyghur Tribunal (2020–2021) South Africa v. Israel (2023–) Defense for Children International – Palestine et al v. Biden et al (2023–2024) Nicaragua v. Germany (2024)

v t e Lists of massacres
List of massacres at sea
By past country or territory	Mandatory Palestine Ottoman Syria Ottoman Bulgaria Roman Judea Soviet Union Yugoslavia
By country or territory	Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Australia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Burundi Canada Chile China Colombia Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of the Congo Dominican Republic East Timor Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Finland France Germany Greece Great Britain Guatemala Guinea Guyana Haiti Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Jerusalem Italy Jamaica Japan Kenya Latvia Lebanon Libya Lithuania Mali Malaysia Mexico Myanmar Nepal New Zealand Nigeria North Korea North Macedonia Pakistan Palestinian territories List of Palestine lists Peru Philippines Poland Puerto Rico Romania Russia Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Syria Taiwan Thailand Turkey Uganda Ukraine United States Venezuela Vietnam Yemen
By war	1948 Palestine war Algerian Civil War Bosnian War Croatian War of Independence Eritrean War of Independence Finnish Civil War Kosovo War Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Sudanese civil war Syrian civil war Greco-Turkish War World War I World War II WWII in Yugoslavia
By group	Armenians Azerbaijanis Hazara people Indigenous Australians Nizari Ismailis Palestinians Turkish people
See also	Mass grave List of genocides
Massacres Massacres by country Massacres by year

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