Genocide

1831 - 1997 Canadian Residential Schools

A group of female students and a nun pose in a classroom at Cross Lake Indian Residential School in Cross Lake, Manitoba in February 1940. Dept. Indian and Northern Affairs/Library and Archives Canada

1915–1918 Armenian Genocide

Refugees on Igdir Road © Armenian National Institute, Inc. Elder Photo Collection

1933–1945 Holocaust

Prisoners in barracks at the Buchenwald concentration camp. (National Archives and Records Administration, 208-AA-206K-31.)

1966 - 1976 Chinese Cultural Revolution

Red Guards greet the morning with a mass reading of Mao's Little Red Book, 1968. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

1975-1979 Cambodian Genocide

Cambodian inhabitants wait in a street of Phnom Penh, 17 April 1975 as the gasoline depot burns before the Khmer Rouge enter the capital and establish government of Democratic Kampuchea (DK). Photo by Claude JUVENAL / AFP

April 7 to July 4, 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Rwandan refugees wait for aid in a camp in Goma, Zaire (now DRC), July 1994.

Sebastiao Salgado

July 1995 Srebrenica Genocide

A Bosnian Serb armed vehicle crew driving through the deserted streets of Srebrenica, 16 July 1995. Photograph: Igor Dutina/EPA

2003-2005 Darfur, Sudan Genocide

Refugee camp across the border in Chad, March 2005.

April 2023 - Present Danfur, Sudan Genocide/El Fasher massacre

This August 2023 photo shows sudanese people, who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, crossing the border between Sudan and Chad. Zohra Bensemra/Reuters