For killings based purely on race - presumably the Holocaust, followed by the Armenian Massacres of 1915 (last of several purges).
Numerically, the Gulag and other deliberate Soviet slaughter would dwarf both of these.
Darfur. The genocide is still going on now.
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 is one of the most recent ones.
Better known as the Holocaust which began in193.
It's genocide. Bosnia and Rwanda are recent examples.
It's genocide. Bosnia and Rwanda are recent examples.
Genocide
yes... only one....
yes, the highest profile genocide in recent times was in Rwanda.
The words holocaust (in the modern sense) and genocide hardly existed at the time. (It seems that the word genocide was first used in 1944). The recent practice of some legislatures declaring certain events to be genocide was completely unknown till much later.
The comparative of "recent" is "more recent," and the superlative is "most recent."
Genocide against Tamils in Srilanka ! Srilankan government and Srilankan army killed many thousands of Tamils in Fourth Eelam war in 2008.
I would argue Serbia is the most troubling country in the Balkans. It's the center of attention for human rights and has been an area of great genocide in recent years.
only the most famous genocide in human history though sadly not the only one.