The Gold Rush had severe effects Influence on Native Californians and resulted in Causation a precipitous native population decline Agree_or_refuse_to_act from disease Catastrophe , genocide and starvation .

The Ustashe regime ( mostly Croats , but also Muslims and others ) committed Commitment genocide against Serbs , Jews , Roma and anti-Fascist Croats .

The Chetniks ( mostly Serbs , but also Montenegrins and others ) pursued genocide against Muslims , Croats and Pro-Partisan Serbs , and the Italian occupation authorities pursued violence Violence and ethnic cleansing ( Italianization ) against Slovenes and Croats .

Nearly four decades of civil war followed , as leftist guerrillas fought Hostile_encounter the series of U.S.-backed authoritarian regimes whose brutalities include a genocide of the Maya peoples .

After Germany lost Earnings_and_losses the war Hostile_encounter , the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials and Poland 's Supreme National Tribunal concluded Process_end that the aim Aiming of German policies in Poland – the extermination Killing of Poles and Jews – had `` all the characteristics of genocide in the biological meaning of this term . ''

Overall , the war Hostile_encounter has claimed the lives of up to 300,000 people , with 2.5 million more made homeless since 2003 ( the United States has labeled Labeling the conflict Hostile_encounter in Darfur as genocide , a charge the Sudanese government has rejected Agree_or_refuse_to_act ) .

The war Hostile_encounter has received Receiving widespread criticism and had a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen 's humanitarian situation , that reached Arriving the level of a `` humanitarian disaster '' or `` humanitarian catastrophe Catastrophe '' , and some have labelled Labeling it as a genocide .

The Conquest Conquering is highly controversial ; apologists describe Statement it as a civilising mission , while revisionists label Labeling it a genocide Catastrophe .

The International Court of Justice dismissed Agree_or_refuse_to_act mutual claims of genocide by Croatia and Serbia in 2015 .

, governments and parliaments of 31 countries , including Brazil , Canada , France , Germany , Italy , and Russia , as well as 49 of the 50 states of the United States , have recognized Know the events as a genocide Killing .

The genocide was carried out Action during and after World War I and implemented Action in two phases—the wholesale killing Killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labour , followed by the deportation Removing of women , children , the elderly , and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian Desert .

Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came Bringing into being as a direct result of the genocide .

Other ethnic groups were similarly targeted Aiming for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide , and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy .

Other ethnic groups were similarly targeted Aiming for extermination in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide , and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy .

Raphael Lemkin was moved Motion specifically by the annihilation of the Armenians to define systematic and premeditated exterminations within legal Legality parameters and to coin the word `` genocide '' in 1943 .

It is the second-most-studied case of genocide after the Holocaust .

Turkey denies that the word `` genocide '' is an accurate term for these crimes , but in recent years has been faced with increasing calls to recognize them as such .

since the assyrian genocide Killing took place Process_start within the context of the much more widespread armenian genocide , scholarship treating it as a separate event is scarce , with the exceptions of the works of joseph yacoub , gabriele yonan , david gaunt and hannibal travis , who have classified Check the genocide Killing as a systematic campaign Military_operation by the young turk government .

In 2007 , the International Association of Genocide Scholars ( IAGS ) reached Arriving a consensus that the `` Ottoman campaign Military_operation against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide Killing against Armenians , Assyrians , and Pontian and Anatolian Greeks . ''

The Assyrian genocide Killing ( also known as Sayfo or Seyfo , `` Sword '' ; or ) refers to the mass slaughter of the Assyrian population of the Ottoman Empire and those in neighbouring Persia by Ottoman troops during the First World War Hostile_encounter , in conjunction with the Armenian and Greek genocides Killing .

The Assyrian genocide Killing took place Process_start in the same context as the Armenian and Greek genocides Killing .

since the assyrian genocide Killing took place Process_start within the context of the much more widespread armenian genocide , scholarship treating it as a separate event is scarce , with the exceptions of the works of joseph yacoub , gabriele yonan , david gaunt and hannibal travis , who have classified Check the genocide Killing as a systematic campaign Military_operation by the young turk government .

providing Supply detailed statistics of the various estimates of the churches ' population after the genocide , david gaunt accepts Receiving the figure of 275,000 deaths Death as reported Reporting by the assyrian delegation at the treaty Imposing_obligation of lausanne and ventures that the death Death toll would be around 300,000 because of uncounted unk areas .

Gregory Stanton , the President of the IAGS in 2007–2008 and the founder of Genocide Watch , endorsed Agree_or_refuse_to_act the `` repudiation Statement by the world 's leading Causation genocide scholars of the Turkish government 's ninety-year denial of the Ottoman Empire 's genocides Killing against its Christian populations , including Assyrians , Greeks , and Armenians . ''

Other observers have stated Statement that these events had met the `` legal definition of genocide , '' or referred to them as state terrorism or ethnic cleansing .

Vietnamese military intervention Participation and the occupying forces ' subsequent allowing Preventing_or_letting in of international food aid Assistance to mitigate Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the massive famine is viewed Perception_active as ending Process_end the Cambodian genocide .

In 2010 , Serbia sued Legal_rulings Croatia before the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) , claiming that the offensive constituted a genocide .

The Bangladesh Liberation War ( ' ) , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence , or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh , was a revolution Social_event and armed conflict Hostile_encounter sparked Creating by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in what was then East Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide .

An academic consensus prevails Coming_to_believe that the atrocities committed Commitment by the Pakistani military were a genocide .

Often described Statement as Europe 's deadliest conflicts Hostile_encounter since World War II , the wars Hostile_encounter were marked Recording by many war crimes , including genocide , crimes Committing_crime against humanity and rape .

The Bosnian genocide was the first European crime Committing_crime to be formally judged Legal_rulings as genocidal in character since World War II , and many key individual participants were subsequently charged with war crimes .

Oxford University held Hold an academic consensus calling the occupation of East Timor a genocide and Yale University teaches Education_teaching it as part of its Genocide Studies program .

french historian reynald secher has gone Removing so far as to characterise their operations as a `` unk genocide , '' while claude langlois of the institute of history of the french revolution Change_of_leadership has derided Judgment_communication secher 's claims Statement as `` unk . ''

This resulted in Causation the death Death of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the indictment of Sudan 's president , Omar al-Bashir , for genocide , war crimes , and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court .

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell described Statement the situation as a genocide or acts of genocide .

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell described Statement the situation as a genocide or acts of genocide .

However , some scholars deny it was a genocide Killing .

There is an academic consensus that the events which took place Process_start during the Bangladesh Liberation War Hostile_encounter constituted a genocide , and warrant judicial accountability .

Historians such as Reynald Secher have described Statement these events as `` genocide '' , but most scholars reject Agree_or_refuse_to_act the use of the word as inaccurate .

In addition , the Assyrians joined Participation the Allies following Self_motion the Assyrian genocide , instigating Convincing the Assyrian war Hostile_encounter of independence .

although there are different estimates , the consensus of the international association of genocide scholars ( unk ) is that more than 20,000 people were killed Killing .

The IAGS has classified Check the massacres as a genocide .

The area was toured Traveling shortly afterwards by then-US Congressman Frank McCloskey , who publicised the killings at a news conference held Defending in Zagreb the next day , calling Name_conferral them genocide .

In 2015 , the International Court of Justice ruled Legal_rulings that the massacre in Voćin was not an example of genocide , and stated Statement that Croatia has not produced Manufacturing sufficient evidence to substantiate its claim that Croats were killed Killing by Serb forces in that locality in December 1991 .

On 27 March , Jomode Elie Getty charged Judgment_communication the clashes Hostile_encounter as `` genocide '' .

Tens of thousands of Karen people have faced Confronting_problem genocide , torture , and gang rape at the hands of the Tatmadaw .

The eastern parts of the country had been destabilized Destroying due to the Rwandan genocide and other regional conflicts , and in many areas state authority had already collapsed Destroying , with infighting militias , warlords , and rebel groups ( some allies , other enemies of Mobutu ) in power .

Captured Arrest in Târgoviște , they were tried by a drumhead military tribunal on charges of genocide , damage to the national economy and abuse of power to execute military actions against the Romanian people .

The collusion Collaboration of political officials in the violence Violence and judicial failure to penalise Rewards_and_punishments the perpetrators alienated Sikhs and increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale support Supporting for the Khalistan movement. < ref name= '' Watch/Asia ( US ) 1994 '' > < /ref > The Akal Takht , Sikhism 's governing body , considers the killings Killing genocide Killing .

although the u.s. has not identified Coming_to_believe the riots Violence as genocide Killing , it acknowledged Statement that `` grave human rights violations '' occurred Presence .