Between 1975 and 1978 the communist rulers of the Khmer Rouge brutally murdered about 2 million people (25% of the population of Cambodia at that time) belonging to different ethnic and religious groups, among whom were not only Vietnamese and Chinese refugees, but also, Muslim, Buddhist and Christian locals.

In 1973, the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile was overthrown and a military dictatorship was established that immediately began to persecute and torture leftist intellectuals and students. In a few weeks, more than 3, 000 citizens, including children and adolescents, were vilely murdered or

In 1976 a group of Argentine generals assumed power establishing a fierce military dictatorship. In order to prevent any source of political instability, they persecuted, kidnapped and tortured more than 30, 000 leftist dissidents, mostly students, workers and professionals, before throwing them into the sea hundreds of kilometers offshore.