“In May 2000 Islamic extremists sent a 3000-strong militia to Maluku to launch a jihad against the Christian population. Over 1000 people were butchered in a single attack… In another massacre over 200 were slaughtered, their bodies being horribly mutilated.

“In one incident three children were tied up and dragged to their deaths behind a speeding vehicle.

“The entire Christian population of Ternate, the capital of North Maluku, was driven from the city, and over 25,000 Christian refugees arrived in Manado on Sulawesi Island to escape the atrocities.

“During the anti-Christian attacks in Maluku province at least 450 church buildings were destroyed as well as an estimated 55,000 homes.

“While Christian and Muslim leaders called for international intervention, Ustad Attamimi, leader of the Islamic Laskar Jihad forces in Ambon, declared on 11 May 2001, ‘We will have no reconciliation before all Christian infidels and their leaders are butchered and killed’.”

~ Patrick Sookhdeo. Heroes of our Faith, Isaac Publishing, 2012,  p. 142.

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From the Wikipedia article on Maluku Islands:

Religious conflict erupted across the islands in January 1999. The subsequent 18 months were characterized by fighting between largely local groups of Muslims and Christians, the destruction of thousands of houses, the displacement of approximately 500,000 people, the loss of thousands of lives, and the segregation of Muslims and Christians. [“Troubled history of the Moluccas”. BBC News. 26 June 2000. Retrieved 2007-05-17.] The following 12 months saw periodic eruptions of violence. Minor disturbances continued through 2003 but Maluku had returned to general peacefulness by 2004. To date, many communities have not returned to their home mostly due to security reasons. Some of these communities have decided to relocate themselves to areas that shared same faith.

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And in Australia:

In more than ten books and numerous academic articles Henry Reynolds has researched and explained what he sees as the high level of violence and conflict involved in the colonisation of Australia, and the Aboriginal resistance that resulted in numerous massacres of indigenous people. Reynolds, and other historians, estimate^[1] that up to 3,000 Europeans and 20,000 indigenous Australians were killed directly in the frontier violence, and many more Aborigines died indirectly through the introduction of European diseases and starvation caused by being forced from their productive tribal lands.

Geoffrey Blainey and Keith Windschuttle categorise his approach as a ‘black armband view’ of Australian history.

In 2002 historian and journalist, Keith Windschuttle, in his book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume One: Van Diemen’s Land 1803–1847, disputed whether the colonial settlers of Australia committed widespread genocide against Indigenous Australians, especially focussing on the Black War in Tasmania, and denied the claims by historians such as Reynolds and Professor Lyndall Ryanthat there was a campaign of guerrilla warfare against British settlement. He went further to accuse Reynolds of inventing evidence and making many claims without any documentary support at all.

[1] http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/news/story28.htm;  Reynolds, Henry, Why Weren’t We Told?, 1999, ISBN 0-14-027842-7, p. 188.

[Wikipedia article, Henry Reynolds].

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In a recent letter to Time Magazine [date unknown] a German person wrote saying he was grateful German schoolchildren could visit the sites where Jews and others were massacred. ( ‘Why haven’t the Japanese also faced up to their war crimes?’ he asked). And when non-military personnel were ‘recruited’ to slaughter unwanted people in the Nazi era, ‘it was amazing how many shots missed their targets from point-blank range…’