List of Genocides, Cultural Genocides and Ethnic Cleansings under Islam: Difference between revisions

This article is a dynamic list of genocides, cultural genocides and acts of ethnic cleansing under Muslim regimes from the origin of Islam to present day.  

Such actions are not uniquely perpetrated by any particular religion or culture and this page should not be used to suggest otherwise, nor used in an attempt to justify contemporary human rights abuses. [[w:Persecution of Muslims|Muslims themselves suffer persecution]] in various parts of the world today and have suffered genocides (for example, [[w:Bosnian genocide|in Bosnia]]). However, it can be seen that regimes in the Islamic world have not been uniquely peaceful, harmonious, or innocent of the kinds of attrocities perpetrated throughout history.

Excluded from the list below are mutual population exchanges, massacres and war crimes involving non-Muslims and Muslims (such as Greece–Turkey, India–Pakistan or Israel–Palestine).

==The Main Table==

!No.!!Victims!!Region!! style="width: 180px;" |Country (Present-Day Geographical Location)!!Who was Responsible!!Period!!Notes

| ||Turgesh Turks, Sogdians||Transoxiana||{{nameandflag|Uzbekistan}}, {{nameandflag|Tajikistan}}, {{nameandflag|Kyrgyzstan}}||Umayyad Caliphate||721 onwards||The culture and heritage of the Sogdians was destroyed so thoroughly that it is almost impossible to reconstruct their history.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Roudik|title=The History of the Central Asian Republics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-8_3jbZU9ikC&pg=PT48&dq=sogdian+islam&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUpcz5uu3OAhXJ0RQKHeXYCoEQ6AEIMjAD#v=onepage&q=sogdian%20islam&f=false|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-34013-0|pages=48–}}</ref> In the post-Umayyad period, Islam had firmly penetrated here.

| ||Coptic Christians|| ||{{nameandflag|Egypt}}||Caliph al-Mamun and Muslim mobs||c.832-837||In a clash between Spanish Muslim invaders and Egyptian Muslims, Copts supported the former. So they were punished by looting and destruction of churches. The caliph also put down their rebellion by massacring them. Many monks were killed and monasteries destroyed in later years.<ref>Robert Morgan ''History of the Coptic Orthodox People and the Church of Egypt''. FriesenPress, 21-Sep-2016. ISBN 9781460280270 p.203-205</ref>

| ||Buddhists, proto-Iranian Hindus, Shamanists, Manichaeans||Xinjiang province||Western {{nameandflag|China}}||Kara Khanids<ref>Dust in the Wind: Retracing Dharma Master Xuanzang's Western Pilgrimage. Rhythms Monthly. 2006. pp. 479–. ISBN 978-986-81419-8-8.</ref>||900s to 1500s||There were centuries-long attacks in this region.<ref>Zhang, Longxi; Schneider, Axel, eds. (7 June 2013). "Lecture 4 The Nature of the Dunhuang Library Cave and the Reasons for its Sealing". Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang. Brill's Humanities in China Library. 5. BRILL. pp. 132–. ISBN 90-04-25233-9.</ref> Buddhist monuments and artefacts were also destroyed on a large scale. The area was largely Islamized.

| ||Hindus and Buddhists||Gandhara||{{nameandflag|Afghanistan}}||Mahmud of Ghazni||998-1030||Mass conversions and coercions.<ref>Afghanistan: a new history By Martin Ewans Edition: 2, illustrated Published by Routledge, 2002, Page 15, ISBN 0-415-29826-1, ISBN 978-0-415-29826-1</ref>

| ||Jews||Siege of Cordoba||{{nameandflag|Spain}}||Berber Muslims led by Umayyad ruler||1013||The inhabitants of Cordoba including Jews were massacred and looted. It is said that 2000 of them were killed.<ref>Kantor, Máttis (2005-11-01). Codex Judaica: Chronological index of Jewish history, covering 5,764 years of Biblical, Talmudic & post-Talmudic history. Zichron Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-9670378-3-7.

| ||Jews||Fez||{{nameandflag|Morocco}}||Berber soldiers||1033||In this pogrom, Muslims killed more than 6000 Jews and took away their women and belongings.<ref>{{Cite web| publisher = Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa | last = Assaleh | first = Abu-Mohammed | others = Jozé de Santo Antonio Moura (trans.) | title = Historia dos soberanos mohametanos: das primeiras quatro dysnastias e de parte da quinta, que reinarao na Mauritania | location = Lisbon | accessdate = 2011-03-30 | year = 1828 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WFUpAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false | page=117 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | publisher = Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa | pages = 47–140 | last = Moura | first = Jozé de Santo Antonio | title = Memórias de Academia das Ciências de Lisboa | chapter = Memoria sobre as dinastias mohammetanas, que tem reinado na Mauritania, com a serie chronologica dos soberanos de cada huma dellas | location = Lisbon | accessdate = 2011-03-30 | year = 1827 | chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=E9NOAAAAYAAJ&dq=fez+1033+tamim&source=gbs_navlinks_s }}</ref><ref>Morris, Jan (1959). The Hashemite kings. Pantheon. p. 85</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish communities of the world |last=Beker |first=Avi |year=1998 |page=203 |publisher=Lerner Publications|isbn=0-8225-1934-8}}</ref>

| ||[[w:Serer religion|Serer religion]]||Tekrur||{{nameandflag|Senegal}} {{nameandflag|Gambia}} and nearby areas||King War Jabi, his Almoravid allies and many other African Muslims||1035-1867||The Serer were under pressure to embrace Islam for centuries. An unknown number of them died in these jihads but many of them scattered.<ref>Page, Willie F., "Encyclopedia of African history and culture: African kingdoms (500 to 1500)", pp 209, 676. Vol.2, Facts on File (2001), ISBN 0-8160-4472-4</ref><ref>Mwakikagile, Godfrey, ''Ethnic Diversity and Integration in The Gambia: The Land, The People and The Culture,'' (2010), p 11, ISBN 9987-9322-2-3</ref><ref>Streissguth, Thomas, "Senegal in Pictures, Visual Geography", Second Series, p 23, Twenty-First Century Books (2009), ISBN 1-57505-951-7</ref><ref>Oliver, Roland Anthony, Fage, J. D., "Journal of African history", Volume 10, p 367. Cambridge University Press (1969)</ref><ref>James Stuart Olson (1996). [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=MdaAdBC-_S4C&pg=PA516&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary]. Greenwood. p. 516. ISBN 978-0-313-27918-8.</ref>

| ||Jains|| ||{{nameandflag|India}}||Various Muslim invaders||1100s-1600s||The Jains are a non-violent religion. Muslims killed many Jains, destroyed many of their temples and idols, looted their treasures, and burnt books. This persecution was frequent till the 17th century.<ref>von Glasenapp, Helmuth (1925), [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=WzEzXDk0v6sC&q=74#v=snippet&q=74&f=false ''Jainism: An Indian Religion of Salvation''] [Der Jainismus: Eine Indische Erlosungsreligion], Shridhar B. Shrotri (trans.), Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (Reprinted: 1999), ISBN 81-208-1376-6 pp.73-74 p.81.</ref><ref>Dundas, Paul (2002) [1992], ''The Jains'' (Second ed.), London and New York City: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26605-X pp. 145-146, 83, 124, p.163, pp. 220-221</ref><ref>{{cite web|quote=The rich body of medieval Jain literature is notable for its strident assertion of the power of the faith and images to withstand the Islamic onslaught. Images that had retreated or gone into exile reappear more powerful than ever, and even those mutilated reveal increased ability to perform miracles. Jain literature discusses the entire gamut of problems related to image worship in the medieval era, including the appropriate medium in which to fashion icons in times of Muslim threat, the sufferings of the true faith in an age of declining virtue, the necessity of hiding images for safety, the divine order to unearth images and resume their worship, the smashing of images by “those wicked Muslims” and their final restitution through the agency of a devotee.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630173749/http://hindureview.com/2004/04/20/review-romila-thapar%C2%92s-%C2%93somanatha-many-voices-history/ |first=Meenakshi  | last=Jain| url=http://hindureview.com/2004/04/20/review-romila-thapar%C2%92s-%C2%93somanatha-many-voices-history/ |title=Review of Romila Thapar’s Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History |work=The Pioneer | date=21 March 2004}}</ref>

| ||Kanuri people||Kanem empire||{{nameandflag|Chad}}, {{nameandflag|Nigeria}}, {{nameandflag|Cameroon}}||[[w:Dunama Dabbalemi|Dunama Dabbalemi]]||1203 to 1243||All Kanuris converted to Islam as a result of a jihad.<ref>Barkindo, Bawuro, "The early states of the Central Sudan: Kanem, Borno and some of their neighbours to c. 1500 A.D.", in: J. Ajayi und M. Crowder (ed.), ''History of West Africa'', vol. I, 3. ed. Harlow 1985, 225-254.</ref><ref>"Three Continents, One History: Birmingham, the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Caribbean", p. 18, by Clive Harris.</ref>

| ||Mongol converts to Islam<ref>Smith, Vincent A. ''The Oxford History of India: From the Earliest Times to the End of 1911'', Chapter 2, pp 231-235, Oxford University Press.</ref>||Delhi||{{nameandflag|India}}||[[w:Alauddin Khilji|Alauddin Khilji]]||1298||15,000-30,000 were killed

| ||Jews||Songhai Empire||{{nameandflag|Mali}}||[[w:Askia Mohammad I|Askia Mohammad I]]||1492||Askia decreed that Jews must convert to Islam or leave. He destroyed their synagogue. Most of the Jews converted to Islam, and intolerance by Malians towards them was reported as recently as the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kulanu.org:80/timbuktu/timbuktu.html |title=The Renewal of Jewish Identity in Timbuktu |publisher= |author=Karen Primack |date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20041017005023/http://www.kulanu.org:80/timbuktu/timbuktu.html |deadurl=yes}}</ref>

| ||Yazidis||Baghdad, Mosul, Diyarbakir, etc.||{{nameandflag|Iraq}}, {{nameandflag|Syria}}, {{nameandflag|Turkey}}||Ottoman Empire||1500s to 1800s||A large Yazidi community existed in Syria, but they declined due to persecution by the Ottoman Empire. Several expeditions were launched against the Yazidis by the Ottoman governors (Wāli) of Diyarbakir, Mosul and Baghdad. The aim of these attacks was forced conversion of Yazidis to Sunni Hanafi Islam.<ref>Commins, David Dean. ''Historical Dictionary of Syria.'' Scarecrow Press. p. 282. ISBN 0-8108-4934-8.</ref><ref>Ghareeb, Edmund A. (2004). ''Historical Dictionary of Iraq''. Scarecrow Press. p. 248. ISBN 0-8108-4330-7.</ref><ref>Hastings, James (2003). Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics Part 18. Kessinger. p. 769. ISBN 0-7661-3695-7.</ref>

| ||Alevis||Anatolia||{{nameandflag|Turkey}}||Selim I||1514||Sultan Selim, nicknamed "Selim the Grim", conducted a massacre of Alevis in 1514. The death toll is said to be 40,000.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=az2LBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=Selim+the+Grim+massacres+40,000+Anatolian+Shi%27ites&source=bl&ots=2OQitRL8m6&sig=wWPSTMCwAPI1c5_5mOcYYAS1Ruk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr3fyt9qzVAhUDrJQKHahrDtcQ6AEIOjAF#v=onepage&q=Selim%20the%20Grim%20massacres%2040%2C000%20Anatolian%20Shi'ites&f=false |title=Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies |publisher=Routledge |chapter=PART II Historical geographies of diversity

| ||Jews||Safed||present-day {{nameandflag|Israel}}||Retreating Mamluk army of Egypt and Arab civilians||1517||Jews were evicted from their homes, robbed and plundered, and they fled naked to the villages.<ref>Shmuelevitz, Aryeh (1999). '' history and society: Jewish sources''. Isis Press. p. 15: "[Rabbi Elijah] Capsali, relying on Jewish informants, was perhaps better informed about what was happening to Jewish communities in remote parts of the Empire. He wrote about Jews suffering in time of war: the pogrom in Safed during Selim I's campaign against the Mamluks for the conquest of Syria, Palestine and Egypt; and preparations for a pogrom against the Jewish community in Cairo on the eve of Selim’s conquest of the city.'</ref><ref>David, Abraham (2010). ''To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel''. Translated by Dena Ordan. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-5643-9. p.97.</ref><ref>David, Abraham (1999). ''In Zion and Jerusalem: the itinerary of Rabbi Moses Basola (1521-1523)''. Translated by Dena Ordan. Bar-Ilan University. ISBN 978-9-6522-2926-7. p.62.</ref><ref>Finkelstein, Louis (1970). "Eretz Yisrael Under Ottoman Rule, 1517-1917". The Jews: Their History. Schocken Books. p.407.</ref><ref>Fine, Lawrence (2003). ''Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship.'' Stanford University Press. p.44.</ref>

| ||Greek Cypriots||Nicosia||{{nameandflag|Cyprus}}||Ottoman army||1570||20,000 Nicosians were put to death, and every church, public building, and palace was looted. Only women and boys who were captured to be sold as slaves were spared.<ref>Hopkins, T. C. F. (2007). Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom Vs. Islam. Macmillan p.82</ref><ref>Turnbull, Stephen (2003). The Ottoman Empire 1326–1699 (Essential Histories Series #62). Osprey Publishing. p. 58</ref><ref>Johnstone p.52</ref>

| ||Portuguese|| ||{{nameandflag|India}}||Shah Jahan||1632||[https://books.google.co.in/books?id=1T8KAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT503&dq=Shahjahan+attacked+the+Portuguese+in+1632&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiit9LN-srUAhWEs48KHS_AAfYQ6AEIODAE#v=onepage&q=Shahjahan%20attacked%20the%20Portuguese%20in%201632&f=false] [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Vp_q_MjupOIC&pg=PA132&dq=Shahjahan+attacked+the+Portuguese+in+1632&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiit9LN-srUAhWEs48KHS_AAfYQ6AEIPzAF#v=onepage&q=Shahjahan%20attacked%20the%20Portuguese%20in%201632&f=false] When negotiations with Portuguese merchants broke down, Shah Jahan massacred their men and enslaved 4000 women and children at Hughli in Bengal.<ref>Stephen Howarth, ''The Koh-I-Noor Diamond: The History and the Legend'', Quartet Books (1980), ISBN 0704322153 p.74</ref><ref>Diana Preston, Michael Preston. ''A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal'' [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=K3wMt3WW-gYC&pg=PT229&lpg=PT229&dq=Jahan+besieged+and+took+the+Portuguese+settlement+at+Hugli,+and+sent+some+four+thousand+captives+to+Agra&source=bl&ots=k817n86Ez5&sig=2oq32BGZ8Ils01u0LIpEbgdeWQ0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr-66y_srUAhUHsI8KHVCwBaUQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=Jahan%20besieged%20and%20took%20the%20Portuguese%20settlement%20at%20Hugli%2C%20and%20sent%20some%20four%20thousand%20captives%20to%20Agra&f=false] Random House, 2010. ISBN 1446421465, 416 pages.</ref>

| ||Sikhs||Punjab||{{nameandflag|India}}, {{nameandflag|Pakistan}}||Aurangzeb<ref>McLeod, Hew (1987). "Sikhs and Muslims in the Punjab". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 22 (s1): 155–165. doi:10.1080/00856408708723379.</ref>||1658 onwards||Aurangzeb's frequent persecution of the Sikhs forced their peaceful community to transform into a warrior community.<ref>Surinder Singh Bakhshi (2009), ''Sikhs in the Diaspora,'' pp.68-69, 0956072801</ref><ref>Latham, Martin. "The Sikhs." ''The Round Table'', 74 no. 293 (1985): 21-29.</ref>

| ||Jews|| ||{{nameandflag|Yemen}}||Imam of Yemen (Rassid dynasty)||1679–1680||The Jews of nearly all cities and towns in Yemen were exiled to a remote desert and left to die. Their property was also confiscated.<ref>Yosef Tobi, ''The Jews of Yemen (Studies in Their History and Culture)'', Brill: Leiden 1999, pp. 77-79</ref><ref>Yosef Qafiḥ (ed.), ''“Qorot Yisra’el be-Teman by Rabbi Ḥayim Ḥibshush,”'' Sefunot, Volume 2, Ben-Zvi Institute: Jerusalem 1958, pp. 246-286 (Hebrew). Yosef Qafiḥ, Ketavim (Collected Papers), Vol. 2, Jerusalem 1989, p. 714 (Hebrew)</ref><ref>Yemenite Jewry: Origins, Culture and Literature, by Rueben Aharoni, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1986, pp. 121–135</ref><ref>P.S. van Koningsveld, J. Sadan & Q. Al-Samarrai, ''Yemenite Authorities and Jewish Messianism'', Leiden University 1990, pp. 156-158. ISBN 9071220079</ref>

| ||Civilians||Delhi||{{nameandflag|India}}||Nadir Shah||1739||In 7 hours, Nadir Shah had 20,000 men, women and children massacred in an incident termed as ''Qatl-e-aam'' in Persian. He also seized a lot of booty.<ref>Michael Axworthy, ''The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant''. Hardcover. p8 (26 July 2006) Publisher: I.B. Tauris Language: English ISBN 1-85043-706-8</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=d1wUgKKzawoC&pg=PA38&dq=nadir+shah+delhi&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=nadir%20shah%20delhi&f=false |title=Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813 |page=38 |chapter=Decline of the Mughal Empire |publisher=Sterling Publishers |author=Jaswant Lal Mehta |date=2005 |archiveurl= |deadurl=no |isbn=9781932705546}}</ref>

| ||Mangalorean Catholics||Kingdom of Mysore||{{nameandflag|India}}|| style="background:#8F9779" |Tipu Sultan||1784-1799||This community were driven out of their homes, forced on a death march and kept as captives for 15 years. Many faced tortures, killings and forced conversions. Out of about 60,000 Catholics, at least 30,000 died en route or in captivity.<ref>Prabhu, Alan Machado (1999), Sarasvati's Children: A History of the Mangalorean Christians, I.J.A. Publications. ISBN 978-81-86778-25-8. p. 216.</ref> Only 15,000–20,000 made it out as Christians.<ref>Prabhu p. xiv</ref>

| ||Nair Hindus||Kingdom of Mysore||{{nameandflag|India}}||Tipu Sultan|| ||Nair Hindus were subjected to forced conversions to Islam, death, and torture.<ref>Fernandes 1969, p. 120</ref><ref>Knight 1858, p. 94</ref><ref>Sharma 1991, pp. 34–35</ref> <ref>Palsokar 1969, pp. 75–79</ref><ref>Punganuri 1849, p. 40</ref> Out of 30,000 Nairs put to captivity (including women and children), only a few hundred returned alive.<ref>Prabhu 1999, p. 250</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)|year=1842|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ad9PAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA494 |page=494}}</ref>

| ||Civilians (mostly Shia)||Karbala||{{nameandflag|Iraq}}|| ||1801 or 1802||The Saudis killed 2,000–5,000 people in a day. They also plundered and destroyed the tomb of Husayn ibn Ali.<ref>Khatab, Sayed. Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism: The Theological and Ideological Basis of Al-Qa'ida's Political Tactics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9789774164996. p.74</ref><ref>Litvak, Meir (2010).{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/karbala |title=KARBALA |publisher=| work=Iranica Online |author= |date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517070800/http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/karbala |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>Vassiliev, Alexei. ''The History of Saudi Arabia''. Saqi. ISBN 9780863567797</ref>

| ||Melkite Christians||Aleppo||{{nameandflag|Syria}}||Ottoman Empire||1817-18||Most of this community fled from Syria and those who stayed were massacred.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ewtn.com/library/chistory/syriahis.htm |title=OVERVIEW OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF SYRIA |publisher= |author= |date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060856/http://www.ewtn.com/library/chistory/syriahis.htm |deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/melkite-church/oclc/233994580 |title=The Melkite Church |page=103 |publisher= |author=Yūsuf Shammās |date=1992 |archiveurl= |deadurl=no}} OCLC Number: 233994580</ref>

| ||Bektashis|| ||{{nameandflag|Turkey}}||Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II||1826||The Bektashi order was outlawed and 4,000 to 7,500 of them were executed. Their shrines were destroyed.<ref>İsmail Özmen & Koçak Yunus: ''Hamdullah Çelebi'nin Savunması - Bir inanç abidesinin çileli yaşamı'', Ankara, 2008, p. 74, 205 & 207</ref>

| ||Assyrian Christians||Bohtan and Hakkari||{{nameandflag|Iraq}}, {{nameandflag|Turkey}}||Badr Khan and Nurallah of Hakkari||1843-47||More than 1000 Christians were killed.<ref>Gaunt, D; Beṯ-Şawoce, J (2006), ''Massacres, resistance, protectors: Muslim-Christian relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I'', Gorgias Press LLC, ISBN 978-1-59333-301-0. p. 32.</ref> The Muslim armies destroyed several villages and took prisoners as war booty.<ref>Aboona, Hirmis (2008), ''Assyrians, Kurds, and Ottomans: intercommunal relations on the periphery of the Ottoman Empire'', Cambria Press, ISBN 978-1-60497-583-3. pp.218-219</ref>

| ||Jews||Throughout the Middle East and North Africa|| || ||1840-1908||Following the [[w:Damascus affair|Damascus affair]], riots and massacres of Jews occurred in Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jerusalem (1847), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901–02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901–07), Port Said (1903, 1908), Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891), Istanbul (1870, 1874), Buyukdere (1864), Kuzguncuk (1866), Eyub (1868), Edirne (1872), Izmir (1872, 1874).<ref name="Benny">Morris, Benny. ''Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict'', 1881–2001. Vintage Books, 2001, pp. 10–11.</ref>

| ||Hazara Shias|| ||{{nameandflag|Afghanistan}}||Pashtuns||1888-90, 1892, 1893||The emir Abdul Rehman eliminated an estimated 60% of the Hazara population by massacres, enslavement, looting and pillaging of homes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/49749d693d.html |title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Afghanistan : Hazaras |publisher=[[w:UNHCR|UNHCR]] and Minority Rights Group International |author= |date= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230557/http://www.refworld.org/docid/49749d693d.html |deadurl=no}}</ref> Many of the survivors fled.<ref>"HAZĀRA: ii. HISTORY". Alessandro Monsutti (Online ed.). United States: ''Encyclopædia Iranica''. December 15, 2003. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hazara-2</ref><ref>Mousavi, Sayed Askar (1998) [1997]. The Hazaras of Afghanistan: An Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Study. Richmond, NY: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-17386-5.</ref>

| ||Ahmediyyas|| ||{{nameandflag|Afghanistan}}||Kings of Afghanistan||1900-1924||Ahmediyyas, a small minority in Afghanistan, were exterminated from there by killings and forced conversions to Sunni Islam.<ref>Frank A. Martin, Under the Absolute Amir, ISBN 978-1-4304-9488-1, p.204</ref><ref>Adil Hussain Khan. ''From Sufism to Ahmadiyya: A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia'' Indiana University Press, 6 April 2015 pp.131-133</ref><ref>Yohanan Friedmann. ''Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval Background'', Oxford University Press India 2003, pg 26–29</ref><ref>Vincent Littrell. [Islam: Ahmadiyya]. World Association of International Studies. (John Eipper, USA, 02/17/06).</ref>

| ||Bulgarians||Thrace||{{nameandflag|Turkey}}||Young Turk government under the Ottoman Empire||1913||50,000–60,000 Thracian Bulgarians were murdered, which was around 20 % of the Bulgarian population in Thrace at that time. Most of the villages with a Bulgarian population were destroyed and the survivors expelled from their places of origin.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-13719-3_4 | chapter=Resettlement Waves, Historical Memory and Identity Construction: The Case of Thracian Refugees in Bulgaria |page=63-84 | isbn=9783319137186 |publisher=Springer International |title=Migration in the Southern Balkans |author=Nikolai Vukov |date=2015 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fchapter%2F10.1007%2F978-3-319-13719-3_4&date=2017-07-22 |deadurl=no}} doi 10.1007/978-3-319-13719-3</ref><ref>Carnegie (1914). ''Report of the international commission to inquire into the causes and conduct of the Balkan Wars''. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. pp. 123–135.</ref>

| ||Jews||Thrace||{{nameandflag|Turkey}}||Turkish mobs||1934||The Thrace pogroms of Jews occurred in four cities. 1500 Jews fled the region and many soon left Turkey. Casualties unknown.<ref>Özkimirli, Umut; Sofos, Spyros A (2008). Tormented by history: nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Columbia University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780231700528. OCLC 608489245.</ref><ref>Bayraktar, Hatice (May 2006), "The anti-Jewish pogrom in Eastern Thrace in 1934: new evidence for the responsibility of the Turkish government", Patterns of Prejudice, Routledge, 40 (2): 95–111, doi:10.1080/00313220600634238</ref>

| ||Tibetans||Qinghai Province||{{nameandflag|China}}||Ma Bufang and his Muslim soldiers||1932-41||The motive was ethnic cleansing of Tibetans and destruction of their culture, resulting in thousands of casualties.<ref>Rab-brtan-rdo-rje (Ñag-roṅ-pa.) (translated by Jamyang Norbu) (1979). Horseman in the snow: the story of Aten, an old Khampa warrior. Information Office, Central Tibetan Secretariat. p. 134.</ref><ref>Jamyang Norbu (1986). Warriors of Tibet: the story of Aten, and the Khampas' fight for the freedom of their country. Wisdom Publications. p. gbooks says 46, (the actual paper says 146). ISBN 0-86171-050-9.</ref><ref>Hsaio-ting Lin (1 January 2011). Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier: Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49. UBC Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-0-7748-5988-2.</ref><ref>David S. G. Goodman (2004). ''China's campaign to "Open up the West": national, provincial, and local perspectives''. Cambridge University Press. p. 72. ISBN 0-521-61349-3.</ref><ref>Bulag, Uradyn Erden (2002). ''Dilemmas The Mongols at China's edge: history and the politics of national unity''. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 54. ISBN 0-7425-1144-8.</ref>

| ||Bihari Muslims and West Pakistanis|| ||{{nameandflag|Bangladesh}}||Mukti Bahini militias and other Bengali Muslims||1971-72||About 30,000-200,000 were killed, during and after the war of independence of Bangladesh.<ref>Gerlach, Christian (2010). ''Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World'' (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-70681-0.

| ||Hazara Shias||Mazar-e-Sharif, Bamiyan||{{nameandflag|Afghanistan}}||Taliban||1998||More than 8,000 noncombatants were reported killed after the Taliban captured the city.<ref>Goodson, Larry P.''Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban'', University of Washington Press (2001), ISBN 0295981113 p.79</ref> Even goats and donkeys were not spared.<ref>Ahmed Rashid. ''Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia'' (2000), p.73.</ref>

| ||Serbian Christians|| ||{{nameandflag|Kosovo}}|| ||1999-2004||Many Serbs were expelled from entire villages and churches and symbols of Serb heritage were destroyed in this period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2015&mm=03&dd=17&nav_id=93505 |title=11 years since "March Pogrom" of Serbs in Kosovo |publisher=B92 |date=17 March 2015 |accessdate=7 September 2015}}</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/apr/9/20050409-102733-9741r/ Anti-Serb programs in Kosovo], By The Washington Times</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=ERP KiM Info|title=Dopunjeni i ispravljeni spisak uništenih i oštećenih pravoslavnih crkava i manastira na Kosovu u toku martovskog nasilja|work=B92 Specijal|date=26 April 2004|publisher=B92|url=http://www.b92.net/specijal/kosovo2004/unistenecrkve.php|ref=harv}}</ref>

| ||Christians|| ||{{nameandflag|Palestine}}||Hamas, Muslim mobs, Islamic terorrist groups||2002 onwards||Muslims targeted Christians frequently in West Bank and Gaza, burning churches and grabbing properties. The Christian population fell from about 3,000 in 2007 to 1,400 in 2011. They were also the target of bomb attacks, murders and discrimination under Hamas rule.<ref>{{cite web|last=Radin|first=Charles A.|title=Defendants killed in court; mob fears grow in West Bank|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7705112.html|accessdate=|work=The Boston Globe|date=6 February 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=de Quetteville|first=Harry|title='Islamic mafia' accused of persecuting Holy Land Christians|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/1498033/Islamic-mafia-accused-of-persecuting-Holy-Land-Christians.html|accessdate= |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 September 2005|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Muslim attacks against Christians on the rise in West Bank |url=http://www.worldnewstribune.com/2012/05/28/muslim-attacks-against-christians-on-the-rise-in-west-bank/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212000435/http://www.worldnewstribune.com/2012/05/28/muslim-attacks-against-christians-on-the-rise-in-west-bank/ |deadurl=yes |archive-date=12 February 2016 |accessdate= |work=World Tribune |date=28 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hadid|first=Diaa|title=For Gaza's Christians, new reality unsettling|url=http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/For-Gaza-s-Christians-new-reality-unsettling-1807109.php|accessdate=|work=The Houston Chronicle|date=27 June 2007|agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Abu Toameh|first=Khaled|title=Christian-Muslim tensions heat up|url=http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast//Article.aspx?id=76420|accessdate=|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=25 April 2007|authorlink=Khaled Abu Toameh}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Silver|first=Eric|title=Gaza's Christian bookseller killed|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gazas-christian-bookseller-killed-396283.html|accessdate=|work=The Independent|date=8 October 2007|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Militants bomb Gaza YMCA library|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7246454.stm|accessdate=|work=BBC News|date=15 February 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Greenwood|first=Phoebe|title=Gaza Christians long for days before Hamas cancelled Christmas|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/23/gaza-christians-hamas-cancelled-christmas|accessdate=|work=The Guardian|date=23 December 2011|location=London}}</ref>

| ||Arab Christians, Levantines, Armenians, Arameans, Assyrians (Syriacs or Chaldeans) and Copts|| ||{{nameandflag|Iraq}}, {{nameandflag|Syria}}, {{nameandflag|Libya}}||ISIS||2014-||At least 1000 casualties.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/2015/12/24/460906980/as-christians-flee-governments-pressured-to-declare-isis-guilty-of-genocide|title=As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=24 December 2015|quote=At least a thousand Christians have been killed. Hundreds of thousands have fled.}}</ref> Described as a genocide by EU.<ref>2014. [http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/24/us-libya-egyptians-idUSBREA1N13V20140224 Seven Egyptian Christians found shot execution-style on Libyan beach] Reuters.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Moore|first=Jack|date=February 4, 2016|title=European Parliament Recognizes ISIS Killing of Religious Minorities as Genocide|url=http://www.newsweek.com/european-parliament-recognizes-isis-killing-religious-minorities-genocide-423008 |newspaper=[[Newsweek]]}}</ref><ref name="Kaplan">{{cite news|last=Kaplan|first=Michael|date=February 4, 2016|title=ISIS Genocide Against Christians, Yazidis? European Parliament Recognizes Islamic State Targeting Religious Minorities|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/isis-genocide-against-christians-yazidis-european-parliament-recognizes-islamic-state-2294384 |newspaper=[[International Business Times]] |quote=The European Parliament characterized the persecution as "genocide" Thursday.}}</ref><ref>[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bMOTION%2bP8-RC-2016-0149%2b0%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION], European Parliament.</ref>

*The Serbian church was persecuted for centuries under Turkish rule and severely weakened by the 18th century. This caused an out-migration of many Serbs from their native region and also a failed revolt.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=JmFetR5Wqd8C&pg=PT1111&lpg=PT1111&dq=ottoman+persecution+orthodox&source=bl&ots=SptLtIlsKK&sig=Br-7RQXh6EYrgANkBEv_BGKXz0Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyuqPWkIHVAhUCTI8KHSN8BvAQ6AEIVDAI#v=onepage&q=ottoman%20persecution%20orthodox&f=false |title=The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |author=John Anthony McGuckin |date=2010 |archiveurl= |deadurl=no |chapter=Serbian Church Under Ottoman And Habsburg Rule | isbn=9781444392548}}</ref>

*Since mid-1980s, more than 20,000 Shia Muslims and hundreds of Ahmadis have been killed in Pakistan by Sunni terrorists sponsored by generals of Pakistan Army.<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http%3A%2F%2Fabna.ir%2Fdata.asp%3Flang%3D3%26id%3D365815|2=2012-11-21}} Over the last several decades 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan + Pic] - ABNA, November 18, 2012<!-- http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=365815 --> See also [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12278919], archived at [https://web.archive.org/web/20170827055925/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-12278919].</ref>