1915– Armenian Genocide: 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by Ottoman Turks when they set out to (as an attempt to) annihilate of the cultural Christians in hopes of creating a larger and stronger empire with one religion and language. Christian Ottoman Greeks and Assyrians also suffered from the genocidal attempt as an attempted ethnic cleanse. April 24 will be the 101st anniversary of the Armenian genocide which will also mark the decade long denial of the genocide by America as well as many other countries who pose close relations with Turkey.

1975–Cambodian Genocide: From 1975 to 1979, about 1.5 million Cambodians died because of assassination, disease, starvation and overwork. The cause of this was the communist movement, Khmer Rouge, which was led by Pol Pot. Their goal was to create a poor classless society and targeted residents, intellectuals, Vietnamese, religious leaders and civil service, according to History.com. Justice was never served due to Pol Pot’s death in 1998.

1992– Bosnian Genocide: After Dictator Josip Broz Tito’s death, Bosnia-Herzegovia, a multi-cultural republic, began having nationalist views exploited which ultimately resulted in conflict. Bosnian Serb forces, with the help of the Yugoslav army targeted and killed 100,000 Bosnian Muslims and Croatian civilians.

1996– Democratic Republic of the Congo: The DRC has been plagued with periods of violence since the early 1990s, including what has been described as “Africa’s World War” — the deadliest conflict since World War II with over 5 million killed. Since 1996, the civil war in DRC has claimed as many lives as World War II. Targeted attacks toward civilians by militias and the Lord’s Resistance Army continue. Although the UN has had one of the largest missions in DRC for several years, and the first mandate with offensive action, the violence persists.

1994– Rwandan Genocide: About 800,000 Rwandans that were mostly from the Tutsi minority were murdered by the Hutu nationalists as a way of “cleansing” the country. The Tutsi were also able to gain control of the country with the use of their military of Rwandese Patriots and a Hutu extremist organization called Hutu, who also had a large part in the ruling political party.

2003– Darfur Genocide: The Darfur Genocide is the first genocide of the 21st century. Since 2003, Darfuri men, women and children of Western Sudan have been slaughtered and raped by the Janjaweed militia. They have also burned villages, raped, tortured, destroyed economic resources and water sources. According to the World Of Genocide website, more than 480,000 people have been murdered and more than 2.8 million people are displaced.