War crimes
North American continent, 1650 – 1850
South Africa 1899-1902
20,000 whites and 12,000 Africans died in British concentration camps, the majority from epidemics of measles and typhoid that could have been avoided
Cilicia, Ottoman Empire, 1909
Massacre of over 20,000 Armenians
Anatolia, April 23, 1915
Beginning of deportation and massacre of two million Armenians
Europe, 1933-1945
Between 220,000 and 500,000 Sinto and Roma (“gypsies”) killed in Nazi death camps
Guernica, Spain, April 26, 1937
1,500 dead, 800 wounded in air raid by German Condor legion
Katyn, Poland, April, 1940
4,500 Polish officers shot by NKVD troops
Babyn Yar (Babi Yar), Ukraine, September 29 – 30, 1941
Massacre of 33,771 Jews
Hamburg, July 24 to 29, August 2, 1943
13,000 men, 21,000 women and over 8,000 children died
Dresden, February 13, 1945
35,000 people – mostly women, children and older people – suffocated or burned to death in the firestorm
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
110,000 killed and 130,000 injured, another 230,000 died from injuries or radiation over the next five years
Deir Yassin, Palestine, April 9, 1948
One hundred and seven civilians died ,and thirteen armed defenders
My Lai, Vietnam, March 16, 1968
347 unarmed civilians, including elderly men, women and children, massacred by Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division
Iraq, January 16 – February 8, 1991
100,000 Iraqi soldiers killed, 300,000 wounded, US losses 148 killed in action, 46 of them from “friendly fire” – over a million children have died since 1991 as a result of sanctions
Palestine Intifada, December 9, 1987 to now
2045 Palestinians killed, 506 Israelis
Srebrenica, Bosnia, July 11-15, 1995
8,000 Muslim men, women and children massacred
Yugoslavia, March 23 – June 10, 1999
500 Yugoslav civilians killed over seventy-eight days of bombing
New York, September 11, 2001
Where next tomorrow?
When will the killing stop?
September 23, 2001
