Cases of ethnic cleansing

For two days now I've been watching Hotel Rwanda. It's been interesting to see Hollywood's version of it since I barely saw a Frontline episode about the genocide in Rwanda. I was ashamed to hear the State Department spokeswoman, Christine Shelley, converse with Alan Elsner--a journalist...

Alan: "Does the state department have a view as to whether or not what is happening is genocide?"
Christine: "As to the distinctions between the words, we're trying to call what we have seen so far, as best as we can, and based, again, on the evidence...we have every reason to believe that acts of genocide have occurred."
Alan: "How many acts of genocide does it take to make genocide?"
Christine: "That's just not a question I'm in a position to answer."

America knew that genocide was happening and yet we ignored it because of Rwanda's lack of oil and white people. Most people hardly remember Rwanda--and probably wouldn't if it weren't for this movie. Here are acts of genocide which occurred in the 20th Century:

• Turkey kills over 1.5 million Turkish Armenians (1915-18)
• The Soviet Union kills/starves 23 million Ukranians, Jews, peasants and "enemies" (1932-38)
• Japanese troops kill over 300,000 Chinese in Nanjing (1937-38)
• Germany kills 11 million Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Poles (1941-45)
• Indonesians kill 500,000 Indonesians and 200-300,000 East Timorans (1965-66, '72, '99)
• The Khmer Rouge kills over 2 million Cambodians (1975)
• The Guatemalan army kills 200,000 indigenous Mayans (1970s-1980s)
• The Shining Path guerillas kill 69,000 indigenous Quechuas (1980s-2000)
• Rwandan Hutus kill 1 million Rwandan Tutsis (1994)
• Serbians and Bosnian Serbs kill 200,000 Bosniacs and Kosovars (1992-95)

Total: +40 million

And this is just a few cases of ethnic cleansing. This doesn't even touch the number of people killed in 20th century wars.

For evil to triumph, all it takes is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke