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Genocides in Asia
- Japanese war crimesEmperor Hirohito's own brother denounced Japanese aggression to troops in China.
- Persecution of Uyghurs in ChinaSince 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has stood accused of persecuting Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang. Critics have called the persecution of Uyghurs in China an ongoing campaign of human…
- Population transfer in the Soviet UnionIn October 1937, Soviet authorities moved almost all 171,781 Soviet Koreans out of the Russian Far East.
- ManchukuoChina's last emperor once ruled Manchukuo, a state where he held no real power. Japan ran it from 1932 to 1945.
- Partition of IndiaThe Partition of India sent 12 to 20 million people fleeing across new borders. It happened in months.
- Taiping RebellionA man who believed he was Jesus's younger brother led a Chinese rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion ran from 1850 to 1864.
- Great PurgeStalin promised two Soviet leaders their lives if they confessed, then broke his word.
- Rohingya genocideThe Rohingya genocide is the name given to a series of persecutions and killings of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya people by the Tatmadaw, the country's armed forces. The United Nations has called the Rohingya "amongst the world's least wanted"…
- Nanjing MassacreThe Nanjing Massacre nearly took another form, a week of bombing with mustard gas and incendiary explosives.
- Three Alls policyIn July 1942, Japanese troops flooded every county in Hebei Province by destroying 128 river dikes.