How many People can you name that did a genocide in the past?

Question:just say the person, the year(s), and why or how.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: just say the person, the year(s), and why or how.

Sultan Abdul Hamid - 1915-1918. Approx. 1,500,000 deaths. Against the Armenians, who were agitating for industrial and political revolution.

Joseph Stalin - 1932-1933. Approx. 7,000,000 deaths. Forced famine on the Russian people under the term Collectivization, in an effort to remove countryside opposition to communism.

Japanese Imperial Army - 1937-1938. Approx. 300,000 deaths. The infamous 'Rape of Nanking', in which the imperial army murdered nearly half the population of the city of Nanking, both soldiers and civilians.

Adolf Hitler - 1938-1945. Approx. 6,000,000 deaths. The well-known Holocaust, as part of Hitler's drive to both pin the blame on Jews for Germany's ills, and eradicate them.

Pol Pot - 1975-1979. Approx. 2,000,000 deaths. Attempted to form a Communist peasant farming society, resulting in the deaths of 25 percent of the country's population from starvation, overwork and executions.

Hutu Militia - 1994. Approx. 800,000 deaths. Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes.

Serbs - 1992-1995. Approx. 200,000 deaths. Ethnic conflict resulted in an attempt by the Serbs of Bosnia to attempt an 'ethnic cleansing', in which they targeted and killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims.

A genocide generally occurs at the hands of many - but here goes:

Ottoman Turks: Armenian Genocide 1915 (Religion, Politics)
Stalin, etc: Ukranian Famine 1932-1933
Hitler & Nazis: Holocaust 1933-1945 (Politics/Economics)
Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party: China 1949 (Communism)
Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge: Cambodia 1975-1979 (Communism)
Serbs: Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia/Herzgovina (Religion)
Hutus: Rwanda 1994-1995 (History/Strife)
Arab Muslims, Sudanese Govt., Janjaweed: Darfur NOW (Culture/Ethnicity)

Germany and the Jewish Genocide, in the 1930's and 1940's, concentration camps

Turkey and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1916 and in 1922-1923, Armenians were in opposition to the Turks

United States and the Native American genocide, a good deal of which occurred in the 19th century, Americans wanted land.

Those are the ones I came up with off the top of my head.

I don't think you can name or place 100% of the balme on one person for something like genocide.

What occurred in the USSR, Cambodia, and China was not genocide. Genocide is the killing of certain people and the extermination of those people is the final goal. The goal of the various so-called Communist regimes was to create a new society and the death of millions of people was the means to the end. I think this is an important distinction when analyzing history.