Between March and September 2011, Assad's military murdered 4,000 civilians. And that was just the beginning...
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević, who controlled Kosovo, committed suicide while awaiting trial at the Hague for war crimes, including attempted genocide...
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević, who controlled Kosovo, committed suicide while awaiting trial at the Hague for war crimes, including attempted genocide...
In 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered, and another 25K–30K Bosniak civilians were expelled in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, committed by units of the Army of the VRS under the command of General Ratko Mladić.
A mass grave near Baghdad reportedly held the remains of up to 15,000 people executed by Saddam Hussein's regime. Hussein used chemical weapons on Kurds from 1986 to 1988 killing 5,000 people and 182,000 "disappeared." The 1991 massacre of Iraqi Shia Muslims...
In 1998, the Taliban launched an attack on Mazar-i Sharif. 1400 defenders died. Then, the Taliban began to kill the people indiscriminately. Women were raped, and thousands of people were locked in containers to suffocate. This ethnic cleansing left 5,000 to 6,000 dead.
In 1988, up to 30,000 political prisoners were executed in Iran. Khomeini's fatwa decree calls for all Mujaheddin opponents of the Iranian regime to be killed. Because they are fighting against the regime, they "are waging war on God." telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
In Nigeria, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of violence since 2009. They are largely financed by 'kidnap for ransom' and extortion. The Nigerian military has fallen apart and is ill-equipped to handle the growing IS-backed safe havens.
Up to 130,000 people are believed to be detained in North Korea's gulag prison camps where prisoners are routinely beaten and killed for offenses that include gossiping about the state. North Korean firing squads routinely carry out public executions in areas such as school yards
Conflict in Darfur, Sudan began in 2003 when rebel groups began fighting the government, accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arabs. The government responded with ethnic cleansing, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians & the indictment of Omar al-Bashir.
In 2012, a military coup carried out by the Malian army created a power vacuum that allowed militant groups such as Ansar Dine and AQIM to gain territory in northern Mali. UN peacekeepers have been deployed to attempt stabilizing the region, which has turned people into refugees.
