Have European/Near Eastern people ever faced oppression, persecution or genocide in history?

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* Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)
* Greek Genocide (1914-1923)
* Assyrian Genocide (1914-1925)

These groups were targeted because they were Christian, not because they were white. I'm not aware that any Greek-speaking Muslims were persecuted by the Ottomans.

The Young Turk government considered the Armenians, the Greeks and the Assyrians as enemies of state, regardless of their religion or their allegiance to the Turkish government. This was because the fear that those ethnicites would welcome liberation by their enemies during the slow collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Deep-seated hatred of the AGA (Armenian, Greek, Assyrian) rooted since the conquests of the Ottoman Empire.

* The Holodomor (1932-1933)

Was the result of Soviet policy, but was not an attempt to wipe out an ethnic group. Even if it were, it wouldn't count as Ukrainians weren't targeted for their whiteness.

Joseph Stalin wanted to annihilate any nationalist, ethnic and anti-Communist movements that occurred in Ukraine as well with the anti-Ukrainian sentiment of the Soviet era. Stalin engineered the famine to kill thousands of Ukrainian peasants, ordered Red Army troopers to shoot at desperate food thieves, deliberately refused food aid from international organizations, restricted population movement and foodstuff raiding from peasants' food supplies.

* Ottoman rule in the Balkan

While Christians were persecuted, I'm not aware of anyone being persecuted for being white. Certainly Greek or Bulgarian speaking Muslims were not persecuted.

The Ottomans punished Muslim Bulgarians who considered themselves more Bulgarian than Turk and bothered to stand up against Ottoman repressions of the Balkan peoples. The Ottomans also engaged in enslavement of Balkan peoples by forcing children into Janissary corps or slave raids. Many European women were forced into Ottoman or Tartar harems. The slave trade of the European people was considered a normal and legal part of the Empire's economy.

In the Balkans, many Europeans had to give children due to the devsirme, which meant "blood tax" or "child collection" or children abducted by the Ottoman soldiers. Massacres and mass violations against women by the Ottoman soldiers were common for Balkan people who refused to engage in the practice or rebelled against authority.
 
Let's continue the thread. I found another example of oppression in history:

The Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush

In 1944, Joseph Stalin ordered the mass deportation of the Vainakh populations (Chechens and Ingush) to Central Asia. The deportation was caused by the 1940-1944 insurgency in Chechenya, assertation of Communism and cheap labor for the forced settlements in the Soviet Union. The NKVD codenamed the operation, "Operation Lentil" to keep it a secret from the normal people.

Upon execution, up to 123,000–200,000 Chechens and Ingush perished during the transport through cattle cars en route to Central Asia. Thousands of officers and NKVD agents forced the populace to move to Central Asia. The exile lasted 13 years before the displaced population returned to their original land. The eviction made a massive scar in the memories of the Vainakh populace, and a major act of genocide in the Soviet Hecatomb.
 
Some more examples:

* The war of La Vendée during the french revolution,
* The last vikings in Greenland were sold by english enslavers in North Africa,
 
Let's continue the thread. I found another example of oppression in history:

The Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush

In 1944, Joseph Stalin ordered the mass deportation of the Vainakh populations (Chechens and Ingush) to Central Asia. The deportation was caused by the 1940-1944 insurgency in Chechenya, assertation of Communism and cheap labor for the forced settlements in the Soviet Union. The NKVD codenamed the operation, "Operation Lentil" to keep it a secret from the normal people.

Upon execution, up to 123,000–200,000 Chechens and Ingush perished during the transport through cattle cars en route to Central Asia. Thousands of officers and NKVD agents forced the populace to move to Central Asia. The exile lasted 13 years before the displaced population returned to their original land. The eviction made a massive scar in the memories of the Vainakh populace, and a major act of genocide in the Soviet Hecatomb.

Except Russians never really viewed the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus as white. And besides, they were punished for allegedly supporting the Germans, a charge which has nothing to do with race.

I honestly don't see the point of listing various atrocities against people whom modern Europeans and Americans would consider white. There's no analysis of why any of the events thus far listed happened (very few if any had to do with the victims' supposed whiteness). There is nothing connecting these events other than the victims' skin color. Listing these events does nothing to elucidate anything new about the past.

What is the point?
 
Let's continue the thread. I found another example of oppression in history:

The Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush

In 1944, Joseph Stalin ordered the mass deportation of the Vainakh populations (Chechens and Ingush) to Central Asia. The deportation was caused by the 1940-1944 insurgency in Chechenya, assertation of Communism and cheap labor for the forced settlements in the Soviet Union. The NKVD codenamed the operation, "Operation Lentil" to keep it a secret from the normal people.

Upon execution, up to 123,000–200,000 Chechens and Ingush perished during the transport through cattle cars en route to Central Asia. Thousands of officers and NKVD agents forced the populace to move to Central Asia. The exile lasted 13 years before the displaced population returned to their original land. The eviction made a massive scar in the memories of the Vainakh populace, and a major act of genocide in the Soviet Hecatomb.
The 1990es saw another great number of casulties.
 
The Romani are descendants of people from South Asia, and so would fall outside of OP's definition of white. While many have visible European ancestry, many others have dark skin which mark them racially as "other" to Europeans and this trait is associated with the Romani as a whole in the popular imagination.

Irish Travellers, on the other hand, do seem to have originated in Ireland and have suffered much of the same sort of discrimination that the Romani have faced, and so would count as an oppressed white people going by OP's definition.
There had been other European ,gypsies' persecuted or murdered like ,Jenische'. By Nazis.
 
Some would argue that the way the British treated the Afrikaners in the Second Boer War was oppressive, and borderline genocide.
 
Near Easterners? That's too wide, a category. You have it from Turkey to Iran. This region is very diverse in peopling, unlike Europe and you can't put them into a box.

Also, unlike Europeans, Near Easterners aren't that dominant in our World today. They only dominate the lands they have been in since the Medieval or before.

Okay, so Europeans, in other words, "Whites" have faced persecution and Genocides? Yes.

Ottomon Empire in the Balkans and their biggest evil acts, the Armenian genocides and the Pontic Greek Genocides, Mongols in Eastern Europe are the two largest events when there has been a Non-European persecution of Europeans.

Coming to European persecutions of other Europeans, there are way too many. Nazi Holocaust is the single largest incident of such a thing. But these have happened almost throught the History in varying levels.
 
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