First Genocide of the 20th Century?

[Siege]

Any pictures of the german colonial army in Namibia?

[Valmy]

Agree that the Herero and Namaqua was the first genocide of the Twentieth Century.

Damn Germany. You were only a Colonial Empire for thirty years.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Agree that the Herero and Namaqua was the first genocide of the Twentieth Century.

Damn Germany. You were only a Colonial Empire for thirty years.

Well, they did get to learn from Leopold how to deal with African natives.

[Zanza]

Any pictures of the german colonial army in Namibia?

The perpetrators:



And some of their surviving victims:

[dps]

That pic has a certain familiarity to it, doesn't it?

[jimmy olsen]

Shouldn't it be the Congo Free State?

I thought of it as a 19th Century phenomenon. 

I'm not sure why you consider proximity to the year 1900 something significant.

I think "genocide" is an actual practice that relies on a certain type of rhetorical justification and state involvement that I don't think many states were capable of in the 19th Century.  That's clearly a related argument, though.

It was ongoing at the turn of the 20th century.

Plenty of native tribes in the Americas and Australia were annihilated in the 19th century. I don't think this definition holds water.

[Norgy]

I'm reading Hannah Arendt and A Shameful Act simultaneously so this seems a really interesting question.  I'm voting Armenia.

I think the Italians were ahead of time in Libya.
It's strange that a nation that were that bad at warfare in general invented terror bombing.

[Habbaku]

The Italians have always been adept at advancing new theories. It is the practical where they take a nap.

[Norgy]

The Italians have always been adept at advancing new theories. It is the practical where they take a nap.

I got a laugh out of that post.

Thanks!