Systematic campaigns to exterminate ethnic, religious, or national groups.
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The Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians through massacres, death marches, and forced deportations — widely considered the first modern genocide and a precursor to the Holocaust.
On April 13, 1919 (Baisakhi Day), British Brigadier General Reginald Dyer ordered troops to fire without warning into a crowd of thousands of unarmed civilians gathered in an enclosed garden in Amritsar, Punjab. The official Hunter Commission recorded 379 dead and over 1,200 wounded; Indian estimates place the death toll considerably higher.
The systematic, state-sponsored genocide of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
On August 16, 1946, the Muslim League called for "Direct Action" to demand Pakistan. In Calcutta, the resulting riots killed approximately 4,000–5,000 people in four days of Hindu-Muslim violence. The Great Calcutta Killings spread retaliatory violence to Bihar and Noakhali.
Over approximately 100 days beginning April 7, 1994, Hutu extremists and militia (Interahamwe) systematically slaughtered an estimated 500,000–800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu civilians.