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2 <br /> GENOCIDE IN THE 20T" CENTURY <br /> ➢ Stalin's Forced famine: 1932 - 1933 — 7,000,000 Ukrainian deaths <br /> ➢ Rape of Nanking: 1937 - 1938— 300,000 Chinese deaths and more than 20,000 rapes <br /> ➢ Nazi Holocaust: 1938 - 1945—6,000,000 Jewish deaths and a vast number of deaths of <br /> the mentally ill, disabled, gypsies, and those of differing political persuasions <br /> ➢ Pol Pot Cambodia: 1975 - 1979 — Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Cham Muslims and <br /> other deaths <br /> ➢ Rwanda: 1994 —800,000 Tutsis deaths <br /> ➢ Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995—200,000 Muslim deaths <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: None <br /> RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board adopt the proposed <br /> proclamation and authorize the Chair to sign it. <br />