6. The Armenian Genocide
The seriousness of the Armenian Genocide can be sensed by the name, as it is often referred to as the Armenian Holocaust. The Ottoman Empire executed over 1.5 million Armenians over the course of eight years and it began on April 24th, 1914. First came the extermination of all the able-bodied males through labour camps and slaughter, and the second wave targeted women, children, and the elderly, which ended in death marches into the Syrian desert. The picture above is the devastating sight of a mother leaning over the body of her child. The most surprising element of the genocide is some countries like Turkey, deny the obvious evidence of the genocide and denies that it ever happened.