Human Rights Violations

Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, and Slobodan Milosevic were similar in that each leader supported actions that

• modernized their economies

• introduced democratic ideas

• supported minority rights

• violated human rights

Conflicts between Hutu and Tutsi, Ottoman Turks and Armenians, and Soviets and Ukrainian kulaks all resulted in

• establishment of new governments

• international intervention

• massacres or genocide

• cultural interdependence

The Armenian massacre, the Holocaust, and genocide in the Balkins are examples of

• appeasement policies

• resistance movements

• Russification efforts

• human rights violations

The Armenian Massacre, the “killing fields” of the Khmer Rouge, and Saddam Hussein’s attacks against the Kurds are examples of

• apartheid

• enslavement

• human rights violations

• forced collectivization

During the 20th century, global attention was drawn to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire, the Tutsis of Rwanda, and the Muslims of Kosovo because these groups were all victims of

• nuclear power accidents

• human rights violations

• environmental disasters

• the AIDS epidemic

The treatment of the Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the treatment of Muslims by the Serbs of Yugoslavia in the 1990s are both

examples of

• coalition rule

• liberation theology

• universal suffrage

• human rights violations

The Armenian massacre, the Holocaust, and the Rape of Nanking are examples of

• appeasement policies

• resistance movements

• Russification efforts

• human rights violations

Conflicts between Hutu and Tutsi, Ottoman Turks and Armenians, and Soviets and Ukrainian kulaks all resulted in

• establishment of new governments

• international intervention

• massacres or genocide

• cultural interdependence

During World War I, which group of people were victims of genocide?

• Arabs in Egypt

• Palestinians in Syria

• Algerians in France

• Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

Base your answer on the excerpt below.

Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. . . .

Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. . . .

Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. . . .

— The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Which pair of 20th-century leaders most clearly violated these principles?

• Anwar Sadat and Charles DeGaulle

• Corazon Aquino and Margaret Thatcher

• Jawaharlal Nehru and Reza Pahlavi

• Pol Pot and Joseph Stalin