**Outside of World War 2 events, it can be both before and after it.**
Recently in Mexico the government has recognized the slavery and opression of Maya peoples and a 1994 massacre perpetuated by the government while in Argentina the Pilaga Genocide was recognized in 2020 as such after 70 years.
In Guatemala the 1982 genocide was being controversially discussed as late as 2013 with protests holding signs of “it happened”.
Have events like this happened in your country and are they conmemorated and remembered? I know of the Paris massacre of Algerians and how it took decades for acknowledgement for example.
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“State terrorism” it’s not a category on it’s own. We simply take it as a genocide regardless it is carried out or state level or otherwise.
the recent ones in some way connected or close to Poland are:
– stalinism during and after ww2, which western world conveniently walks around despite yielding more casualties than nazism
– [Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia) – which russia tries to leverage to put a dent in polish-ukrainian relations
– [Holodomor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) – goes into stalinism, but is big enough to be it’s own separate thing. Think of irish famine, but on larger scale
/edit: i’m excluding Holocaust since i assume it’s the thing people associate with ww2 european genocide
In the 2000’s Portugal and Spain apologised for the persecution and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the XVI century, and passed laws granting citizenship to descendants (Sephardic or Ladino) of those expelled hundreds of years ago.