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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
After World War II, when the full horror of the Jewish Holocaust was revealed, the world said: "Never again".
But in 1994 an extremist Hutu government in Rwanda began the systematic slaughter of the minority Tutsis.
It is estimated some 800,000 people were killed in 100 days as the rest of the world stood by.
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The sad thing is that genocide never really ended, despite the lessons of the Holocaust. It will never be known how many were killed under the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979--but it's estimated at around 1.4 million dead in a nation of 9 million. There is a former death camp in Phnom Penh where someone started a list of nations that suffered genocides. That list continues to grow.
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