Most Serbs sought Statement a new Serb state within a Yugoslav federation Collaboration , including areas of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina with ethnic Serb majorities or significant minorities , and attempted to conquer Conquering as much of Croatia as possible .

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 . ''

French Union forces included Cause_to_be_included colonial troops from the whole former empire ( Moroccan , Algerian , Tunisian , Laotian , Cambodian , and Vietnamese ethnic minorities ) , French professional troops and units of the French Foreign Legion .

It pursued Aiming the systematic elimination Removing of nationalist Bengali civilians , students , intelligentsia , religious minorities and armed Bearing_arms personnel .

Its constituent republics declared Expressing_publicly independence , despite unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries , fueling Supply the wars Hostile_encounter .

While many notable historical events occurred Coming_to_be in Moscow and Petrograd , there was also a visible movement in cities throughout the state Statement , among national minorities throughout the empire and in the rural areas , where peasants took over Getting and redistributed land .

The immediate cause involved Cause_to_be_included the rights of Christian minorities in the Holy Land , which was a part of the Ottoman Empire .

To back this claim they adduce Adducing the fact that roughly 40 % of the properties attacked belonged to other minorities .