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List of genocides committed by the United States

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Throughout its history, the United States has been accused of either directly committing or being complicit in acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing, both within the modern borders of its territory and abroad. The detailed list at the international level mainly includes killings of members of a specific group of people, which is one of the elements of the definition given by the UN[1], however this definition is including acts with mental or other physical elements not widely covered by this list. The list at the national level attempts to include all those cases described in the 1948 UN convention on genocide.

Domestic

This section provides a list of Wikipedia entries that mention acts of genocide in the territory of the United States after its independence from the United Kingdom. It includes both massacres of native Indian populations, as well as other aspects of cultural genocide as defined by the United Nations.[2][3][4]

Long Walk of the Navajo: the 1864 deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the United States federal government.

International

This section lists those pages that meet the UN definition of genocide where the United States has been involved. It does not include massacres subject to dispute on Wikipedia, or acts of war such as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In the case of Vietnam War the International War Crimes Tribunal supported the qualification as genocide, although their conclusions have been disputed[7][8][9], therefore the Sơn Thắng massacre and My Lai massacre are considered war crimes but not unanimously genocide. In the case of Korean War is also controversial that the United States committed a genocide[10] or just war crimes, therefore the list is not including: No Gun Ri massacre.[11][12][13] During the Vietnam War it has been considered that part of the war strategy of the United States in Vietnam was an ecocide[14][15].

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Genocide Of Indigenous Peoples - Holocaust Museum Houston". hmh.org. 2023-08-02. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
  3. ^ Ostler, Jeffrey (2015-03-02), "Genocide and American Indian History", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.3, ISBN 978-0-19-932917-5, retrieved 2024-12-02
  4. ^ Totten, Samuel; Hitchcock, Robert K., eds. (2011). Genocide of indigenous peoples. Genocide : a critical bibliographic review. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-1495-9.
  5. ^ "United States of America". genocidewatch. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  6. ^ Flauzina, Pinheiro (2012-11-07). Nonnegotiable lives: international criminal justice and the denial of black genocide in Brazil and the United States (thesis thesis). ProQuest.
  7. ^ Foster, Cody J. (2017). "Did America Commit War Crimes in Vietnam". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Fein, Helen (1993). "Discriminating Genocide from War Crimes: Vietnam and Afghanistan Reexamined". Denver Journal of International Law & Policy. 22 (1).
  9. ^ Molden, Berthold (2010), Assmann, Aleida; Conrad, Sebastian (eds.), "Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide", Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 79–96, doi:10.1057/9780230283367_5, ISBN 978-0-230-28336-7, retrieved 2024-11-30
  10. ^ KIM, DONG CHOON (2004-12-01). "Forgotten war, forgotten massacres—the Korean War (1950–1953) as licensed mass killings". Journal of Genocide Research. 6 (4): 523–544. doi:10.1080/1462352042000320592. ISSN 1462-3528.
  11. ^ Baik, Tae-Ung (2012-01-01). "A War Crime against an Ally's Civilians: The No Gun Ri Massacre". Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy. 15 (2): 455. ISSN 0883-3648.
  12. ^ Sŏ, Chae-jŏng, ed. (2013). Truth and reconciliation in South Korea: between the present and future of the Korean wars. Sŏ, Chae-jŏng. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-62241-7.
  13. ^ Hanley, Charles J. (2010-12-01). ": Official Narrative and Inconvenient Truths". Critical Asian Studies. doi:10.1080/14672715.2010.515389. ISSN 1467-2715.
  14. ^ "Ecocide | Sciences Po Violence de masse et Résistance - Réseau de recherche". www.sciencespo.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  15. ^ Weisberg, Barry (1970). Ecocide in Indochina : the ecology of war. San Francisco : Canfield Press.
  16. ^ "Henry Kissinger's role in Bengali massacre". The Guardian. 2023-12-04. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  17. ^ Magazine, Smithsonian; Boissoneault, Lorraine. "The Genocide the U.S. Can't Remember, But Bangladesh Can't Forget". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  18. ^ Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1 (2022-10-14). "Text - H.Res.1430 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Recognizing the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971". www.congress.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ^ Perry, Juliet (2016-07-21). "Tribunal: Indonesia guilty of 1965 genocide". CNN. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  20. ^ "Amnesty International Warns of U.S. Complicity in War Crimes in Gaza". Amnesty International USA. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  21. ^ Bhabha, Faisal A.; Matthews, Heidi; Fadel, Mohammad (2024-01-28). "Ruling by UN's top court means Canada and the U.S. could be complicit in Gaza genocide". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
  22. ^ "Confronting genocide in Canada | CMHR". humanrights.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
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