Jews do not have ownership over the term 'holocaust'. Probably just under 3 million have died under the regime of the Khmer Rouge in what we know the killing fields. A lot by execution, a lot by starvation. A huge massacre and suffering.
In the nazi holocaust out of probably 5 million that were killed, most were Polish or Polish Jews. We rarely think of Polish people when we think of the nazi holocaust. This may leave for about 2 million not really accounted for. Non Jewish holocaust sufferers. Historians begin to disagree in the figures when you take into account other nationalities who have died under the nazi holocaust. The sum of numbers lost in total may even be higher.
In 1915, there was the ethnic cleansing of a million and a half Christian Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. Mass slaughter of men women and children.
And what of Rwanda?
History is full of holocausts. Some erased from our thoughts by the passing of history. A Woman's Holocaust could indeed be an example of such a casuality of history's passing if we only allow ourselves to be selective in recognizing which human suffering counts and which doesn't.
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Dead Reckoning; Holocausts vs holocausts
by Robert Fisk
The Independent (London)
August 5, 2000, Saturday
The Essay: DEAD RECKONING;
Why is it that great holocausts of the last century merits a capital 'H'? Here, robert fisk, who has spent many years researching the massacre of one and a half million Armenian Christians, argues that all acts of genocide deserve equal recognition.
Here is how someone in Wikipedia like to break down the numbers for the nazi holocaust. Because it's Wikipedia, take it with a grain of salt. Exact numbers are not definite.
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* 5.1–6.0 million Jews, including 3.0–3.5 million Polish Jews[8]
* 1.8 –1.9 million non-Jewish Poles (includes all those killed in executions or those that died in prisons, labor, and concentration camps, as well as civilians killed in the 1939 invasion and the 1944 Warsaw Uprising)[9]
* 500,000–1.2 million Serbs killed by Croat Nazis
* 200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti
* 200,000–300,000 people with disabilities
* 80,000–200,000 Freemasons [10]
* 100,000 communists
* 10,000–25,000 homosexual men
* 2,500-5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses [11]
And again here is another take...
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Who Were the Five Million Non-Jewish Victims?
Of the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust, six million were Polish citizens. Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians and Catholics. Most of the remaining mortal victims were from other countries including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany.
