The Khmer Rouge exterminated -- literally exterminated -- over 90% of the educated and professional population of Cambodia, leaving the country without the most basic civil support systems, such as teachers, engineers, and medical professionals.
Rabbits have exterminated the native cabbage Pringlea antiscorbutica over wide areas on Kerguelen, and sheep have decimated tussock communities on South Georgia.
Aligned with Berlin during World War II, Bulgaria shielded its own Jewish citizens - about 50,000 people - but handed the Macedonian Jews over to the Germans, who exterminated them.
By the time this campaign is over this month, perhaps 20,000 dogs will have been exterminated, said Shaker Fraiyeh of the ministry's veterinary services company.
Gray wolves, sandhill cranes, sea otters: species like these, once nearly exterminated, are now rising up to cause ranchers, farmers and fishermen some of the same frustrations all over again.
Over past decades their numbers have boomed, as reckless exploitation has exterminated competitor species like cod.In Maine, the most northerly state in New England, 57.1m kg (126m lb) of the crustaceans were landed in 2012.
It exercised the lightest control over Finland; in the steppes of today's Kazakhstan native people were exterminated to make room for settlers, suffering a fate almost as dire as the American Indians.
To put it in historical perspective that's over 60percentt of the number of Jews generally thought to have been exterminated during the Holocaust.
For centuries, all over Europe, Roma have been despised, discriminated against, excluded and, in the second world war, exterminated.
