Not to forget our own contribution to this list, the almost complete destruction of the American Indians. From a population of approximately 12 million in 1500 to just 237,000 in 1900. This has been described as ''a vast genocide, the most sustained on record'' by Ward Churchill (professor of ethnic studies, university of Colorado). David E Stannard (university of Hawaii) adds that ''native American Indians had undergone the worst holocaust the world has ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people''. Funny how some genocides are forgotten - to put this in context twice as many Indians were murdered and their land stolen than the European Jews in the 1940's. Land of the free?? http://hnn.us/articles/7302.html http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1...americans.html http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/aiholocaust.html