Before and after the Holocaust, there were - and there still are - other genocides. Most do not belong to the Middle East (except Armenia), but that is precisely why they are listed here: these pages are meant to be a sobering reminder of the absurdity of the world's obsession with the so-called “plight of the Palestinians” when there are other, considerably more dramatic situations befalling other groups that receive scant attention as a result.
Armenia: An estimated 1.5 million people were slaughtered by the Turks between 1915 and 1923. Turkey has yet to acknowledge this crime and to apologize for it.
Tibet: brutally occupied by China in 1950, it is still under foreign occupation, and lost an estimated 1.5 million of its people in its struggle.
Rwanda: 800,000 people murdered in 1994 in a racially inspired uprising that pit the majority Hutus against the minority Tutsis.
Cambodia: over 2 million people were murdered by the extremist Khmers Rouges when they took power.
Bosnia: 200,000 people murdered by the expansionist Serbs between 1995 and 1997.
Congo: over 5 million people killed by marauding armies, hunger and disease in a civil war that never seems to end (2000-ongoing).
Sudan: 500,000 people murdered in Darfur by roving gangs armed by the Sudanese government (2003-ongoing).
North Korea: several millions of people starved to death, hundreds of thousands of others (including women and children) condemned to a slow death in the last full-scale Gulag system in the world, and no end in sight.
In all these cases, the rest of the world did (or still does) nothing, or too little too late. Hence the books listed below that address this criminal apathy.
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