Before the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, there were no names to indicate the inalienable rights of the human being as a whole, so there was no way to violate them. They were only brought together as a document in 1948, and while the document had good intentions, it often did not stop governments from doing what they wanted. Cases of these human rights crimes include; the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Japanese internment camps, the slave trade, the Soviet incursion against the Prague Spring, the overthrow of the government in Chile, the rape and murder of Bangladeshi women and men by of Pakistan and attacks on civilians in Vietnam. An example of a huge human rights violation would be the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1918, when the Turkish government decided that it would no longer tolerate Armenian Christians living in their country. The systematic attempt to exterminate an entire religious group is definitely in violation of human rights. There would also be violations of the rights of Japanese people in internment camps in the United States...
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