what are some facts about the cuban genocide?
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There has been no "Cuban genocide", at least in the 20th century.  \n\nCastro may have killed maybe 10,000 to 20,000 people, depending on different versions, and how many died or were killed trying to escape on rafts or boats to Florida. Castro claims Batista killed about 20,000 people during 1952 to 1959. However, others believe the total number is actually around 5,000 to 10,000. Earlier dictator Machado killed a lot of people in the late 1920's and early 1930's, but the total is probably less than 5,000. \n\nHowever, nobody has ever called these deaths "genocide", since they were not systematic exterminations, as was the case of the Nazis, but really political violence, repression, etc.\n\nThe closest Cuba has ever been to genocide was the "reconcentration" campaign used by Spanish Tyrant Valeriano Weyler agains Cuban peasants durign the War of Independence (1895 to 1898). In this campaign, peasants were forced to abandon their homes and land and sent to concentration camps. Over a million peasants were "reconcentrated" and not less than 200,000 died of disease and malnutrition. It is said that Hitler was inspired by Weyler's strategies when he developed the extermination camps for Jews and other people he deemed undesirable.
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"Nearly eight thousand soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines had participated in URGENT FURY along with 353 Caribbean allies of the CPF. US forces had sustained 19 killed and 116 wounded; Cuban forces lost 25 killed, 59 wounded and 638 personnel captured. Grenadian forces casualties were 45 killed and 358 wounded; at least 24 civilians were killed."
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You may be referring to the Armenian genocide.  1915 -1917.  Reports estimate over 1 million Armenians were sentenced to labor camps and were killed or staved to death in the Ottoman empire.
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Cuba was a nation of 6.5 million in 1959. Within three months in power, Castro and Che had shamed the Nazi prewar incarceration and murder rate. One defector claims that Che signed 500 death warrants, another says over 600. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega, who knew Che as early as 1954, writes in his book "Yo Soy El Che!" that Guevara sent 1,897 men to the firing squad. In his book "Che Guevara: A Biography," Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering "several thousand" executions during the first few years of the Castro regime.
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I think you had a wrong history about Cuba...\nFind something a little more precise here;\nThe recorded history of Cuba began on 24 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus sighted the island during his first voyage of discovery and claimed it for Spain. The island had been inhabited for at least several thousand years by Amerindian peoples known as the Taíno and Ciboney. The Taíno were farmers and the Ciboney were hunter-gatherers. The name Cuba is derived from the Taíno word cubanacán, meaning "a central place".\n\nThe coast of Cuba was fully mapped by Sebastián de Ocampo in 1511, and in that year Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founded the first Spanish settlement at Baracoa. Other towns, including Havana (founded in 1515), soon followed. The Spanish, as they did everywhere in the Americas, oppressed and enslaved the indigenous population which, within a century, died out as a result of the combined effects of disease and mistreatment. The settlers then introduced African slaves, who soon made up a significant proportion of the inhabitants.
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Platt amendment was repealed. And I quote wikipedia:\n\nExcept for U.S. rights to Guantánamo Bay, the Platt Amendment provisions, which Cubans considered an imperialist infringement of their sovereignty, were repealed in 1934, when a new treaty with the U.S. was negotiated as a part of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor policy" toward Latin America.
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The Armenian Genocide (also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the Armenian Massacre) is a term which refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Several facts in connection with the event are a matter of ongoing dispute between parts of the \ninternational community and Turkey. Although it is generally agreed that events said to comprise what is termed the Armenian Genocide did occur, the Turkish government rejects that it was genocide, on the alleged basis that the deaths among the Armenians, were not a result of a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination, but from the result of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I.\n\nDespite this thesis, most Armenian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. For example, most Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide, and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 24 countries, as discussed below, have officially recognized and accepted its authenticity as Genocide.\n\nIn 1914, before World War I, there were an estimated two million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the vast majority of whom were of the Armenian Apostolic faith, with a small number of the Armenian Catholic and Protestant faiths. While the Armenian population in Eastern Anatolia (also called Western Armenia) was large and clustered, there were large numbers of Armenians in the western part of the Ottoman Empire. Many lived in the capital city of Istanbul.\n\nUntil the late 19th century, the Armenians were referred to as millet-i sadika (loyal nation) by the Ottomans. This meant that they were living in harmony with other ethnic groups and without any major conflict with the central authority. However the Christian Armenians were subject to Islamic dhimmi laws, which gave them fewer legal rights than Muslim fellow citizens. The Tanzimat gave more rights to the minorities in the middle of the 19th century. However, the long ruling Sultan Hamid suspended the constitution early in his reign and ruled as he saw fit. Despite pressure on the Sultan by the major European countries to treat the Christian minorities more gently, abuses only increased.\n\nThe single event that started the chain is most likely the Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire in the War of 1877-78. At the end of this war the Russians took control over a large part of Armenian territory (including the city of Kars). The Russians claimed they were the supporters of Christians within the Ottoman Empire and now they were clearly militarily superior to the Ottomans. The weakening control of the Ottoman government over its empire in the following 15 years led many Armenians to believe that they could regain independence from them.
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Well....cuba used to be the richest nation in the caribbean before castro took over.  Also, they were making major progress toward becoming an enlightened democracy.  That is a very attractive situation for a hispanic who wants to maintain their identity as a hispanic.  Unfortunately, it all went to hell when rich elites in cuba and the united states, in love with the evil of marxism, brought castro to power.  The working class in cuba, of course, resisted him and nearly won against overwhelming military odds.  Unfortunately, they lost and many of them were killed in a genocide.  Today, cuba is a hell hole.  Castro loots the economy for his personal wealth.  He sells the men into slavery to foriegn corporations from china and russia and sells the women into slavery as prostitutes.\n\nThey should have stayed in the US.
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He was Fidel Castro's right hand man.  He was a communist and was instrumental in Cuba severing ties with the US.
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I've linked several articles below for your review. 1st - Ethnic cleansing, 2nd is an overview on Allied war crimes, 3rd a specific record of the details on the previous posters Katyn massacre. There were significant atrocities committed before (1932-33 era in the Ukraine) and after (Stalin's pogroms) the war and with most focus on the Nuremberg trials a lot of Allied crimes either went un-or-under reported. Best of luck in your research, hope this helps.
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The cubans have what is called the 'dry foot rule'.  If we catch them before they make it to land we send them back.  If they make one foot onto u.s. soil, they get amnesty because they come from a communist country and we don't send people back to communist cuba if they are seeking refuge.
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THE HOLOCAUST   \n\n  The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. \n\nIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment. \n   Before beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities. \nIn the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945. \n  In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including more than two-thirds of the Jewish displaced persons in Europe. Others emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957. The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities.
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The capital of Cuba is Havana.
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I'm not sure about 1997 ... but if you think about the Genocide in Rwanda (the masacre of the Tutsi population by the Hutu), that took place in 1994.\nThe background of the genocide is extensive, with roots to be found in Belgian colonialism (the Belgians transformed the Tutsies into a sort of elite with more right and priviledges - when the belgians left, a radical Hutu party won elections and several massacres took place along the years, forcing the Tutsi into exile).\nThe genocide was trigged after the assasination of the Hutu president of Rwanda, which was in the middle of the peace talks with the Tutsi rebels (Arusha Peace Accords). After his death (april 6 1994), the Rwandan Armed Forces disputed the outcome of the Peace Accords and the presidential guard assassinated several moderate Hutu dignitaries, including Prime Minister Uwilingiyimana (she was killed in broad daylight, along with her 10 UN belgian guards). The same night, two Hutu extremists group began rounding up Tutsis all over the country and summarely executing them. The first 40 days saw the death of about 600 thousand Tutsi civilians.\nThe genocideended 100 days later, on 22 July of 1994 when the Tutsi rebels overthrew the Hutu interim govt and ended the massacre, which by then counted around 1 million casualties among the Tutsi. The UN did not authorize any kind of military intervention to stop or prevent the massacre despite early warning reports.\n- US declared it was an 'internal affair' and refused to intervene\n- France opposed direct intervention fearing this will allow greater involvment by the UK in the area and kept to humanitarian aid\n- the UN envoy and the chief of the UN presence there, Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh, greatly watered down reports by UN military commander General Dallaire and even forbid him to halt UK and France armament shipments for the Hutu militia.\n\nNotable side-events: the handling of the crisis by the Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was one of the reasons US vetoed his second mandate (and was the first Secretary General to have a single mandate, was followed by Kofi Annan), Paul Rusesabagina - manager of the Mille Collines Resort in Kigali was awarded the Nobel Prize for his involvment in saving about one thousand refugees.
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Maybe this link will help.\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/WW2res.htm
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Genocide is killing or causing serious harm to members of a national, ethnic or religious group. Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines it in more detail. \n\nIn the Rwandan genocide in 1994, two extremist Hutu militia groups killed over 900,000 members of the Tutsi as well as moderate Hutus. Unfortunately, neither the United Nations or other nations did anything to stop the massacre.\n\nIn 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed that Sudanese Government backed Arab militia had committed abuses that left 1.2 million black African Sudanese homeless. This was also known as the Darfur massacre.
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Cuban from the island of Cuba for those who don't know.