RAPHAEL LEMKIN'S LIST OF GENOCIDES

Lemkin is the man who is considered to have invented the term "genocide" in America after World War Two. He originally was very popular when he restricted his discussion of genocide to the crimes committed by Nazi Germany in World War Two. Unfortunately for America, he had a larger and more realistic vision of the subject of genocide. He began to point out that genocide had existed throughout world history and that America had sometimes played a key role in genocide against other peoples. When he started talking about this, his support in America largely evaporated and he died in poverty. However his studies are relevant, and we present here his list of what he thought were the greatest genocides in history.

Below is his list of genocides from the following book, "Lemkin on Genocide."

More about Raphael Lemkin can be found on our report about the matter: Raphael Lemkin and Genocide

Part I Antiquity

1 Biblical Genocide
2 Assyrian Invasions
3 Genocide against Early Christians
4 Genocide against the Pagans
5 Carthage
6 Genocide in Gaul
7 Genocide against the Celts
8 Genocide in Egypt
9 Genocide in Ancient Greece

Part II Middle Ages

1 Genocide against the Albigenses
2 Charlemagne
3 Genocide in Medieval England
4 Genocide by the Goths
5 Genocide by the Huns
6 Genocide against the Jews
7 Genocide by the Mongols
8 Genocide against the Moors and Moriscos
9 The French in Sicily
10 The Spanish Inquisition
11 Genocide against the Valdenses

12 Genocide by Vikings

13 Crusades

Part III Modem Times

1 Genocide by the Germans against the Native Africans
2 Assyrians in Iraq
3 Belgian Congo
4 Bulgaria under the Turks
5 Genocide against the Greeks
6 Chios
7 Greeks under France
8 Greeks in Exile from Turkish Occupation
9 Genocide by the Greeks against the Turks
10 Genocide against the Gypsies
11 Hereros
12 Haiti
13 Hottentots
14 Huguenots
15 Hungary under the Turks
16 Genocide against the American Indians
17 Ireland
18 Genocide by the Janissaries
19 Genocide by the Japanese against the Catholics
20 Genocide against Polish Jewsil
21 Genocide against Russian Jews
22 Genocide against Jews in S.W. Africa
23 Genocide against Rumanian Jews
24 Korea
25 Latin America
26 Genocide against the Aztecs
27 Yucatan
28 Genocide against the Incas
29 Genocide against the Maoris of New Zealand
30 Genocide against the Mennonites
31 Nuremberg Trials
32 Parsis
33 Serbs
34 Slays
35 Smyrna
36 South Africa
37 Genocide against the Stedinger
38 Tasmanians
39 Armenians
40 S.W. Africa
41 Natives of Australia

[Two pages follow which are devoted to Lemkin's "Categories" of examination]:

Killing
Conditions of life
Prevention of birth
Actions by individuals
Actions by officials
Motivations
Intolerance
Religious hatred
Racial hatred
Greed
Power consideration
Killing for thrill of same
Scapegoatism

Cultural Conflict
Competition
Transfer of children
Intent
Destruction of four groups: National, racial, religious, ethnical
Aftermath: Depopulation of country, Disease, Depopulation of cities, Destruction of trade
Cultural losses
Psychological reactions: Victims, Perpetrators, Outside world
Destruction in part . . . in order to end leadership
Conspiracy
Direct and public incitement
Attempt to commit genocide
Attempts to prevent Genocide