“Estimated total number of victims of genocide in the twentieth century at 39 million” (Grant 16). This was only in the twentieth century and genocide has been going on for several more centuries. Genocide is a hate crime of mass killing against a group based on their beliefs. The Holocaust and Cambodian Crisis are examples of this. The crime is led by usually organizations or governments. Genocide has had an immense influence on society by the overtaking of political systems‚ the development
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into fleeing the embers of their homes” (Sudan Can’t Wait). According to the Gale encyclopedia‚ Genocide is the intent to destroy a national‚ ethic‚ racial or religious group. The perpetrator does this by killing‚ removing civilians from their homes or doing serious mental or bodily harm to someone (Rothenburg). In Darfur‚ Sudan a civil war has caused many casualties and in result has become genocide. In Darfur‚ the government has supported armed militias who destroy villages and drive people from
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after the 1994 genocide which took place in the East African country‚ Rwanda. Prior to the colonial era and genocide‚ the Rwandan population consisted of the Hutu (~85%)‚ the Tutsi (14%) and the Twa (1%)‚ where the Tutsi were generally regarded as the higher class of citizens while Hutus were regarded as the lesser. Tension in Rwanda began in the wake of decolonization in the 1950’s and by the 1990’s‚ the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda brought on a genocide (Burnet‚ 2012
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The international community’s had a strong reaction and response to the Rwandan genocide in the film of “Hotel Rwanda”. During 1994‚ the world stood idly by as Rwanda was devastated by the most horrifying genocide since the Holocaust. A weekly flight‚ Belgian C-130 Hercules was carrying the UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) troops‚ as they were returning from leave and had been scheduled to land before the presidential jet‚ but was waved off to give the presidents priority. A
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Before that genocide in 1994‚ there were many events that built up and led to the dramatic killings. Far before any of this started‚ hunter and gathers populated the area of Rwanda during the stone and iron ages with the Bantu eventually following. In the mid-eighteenth century the country became known as the Kingdom of Rwanda and was ruled by a Tutsi King. The king enacted anti-Hutu polices and this is where the animosity between the Hutu and the Tutsis started. Rwanda became colonized by Germany
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Genocide is a terrible thing and the Darfur War is no exception. The darfur war started in 2003 and has increased to at least 480‚000 people killed‚ 2.8 million people displaced and made refugees. The people who were targeted were the non-Arab individuals‚ attacked because rebels to the country were attacking the government. The rebels claimed that the non-arab population was being suppressed by the government. When these rebels attacked an air force base‚ the Sudanese President Omar Bashir hired
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To further analyze the causes of genocides‚ the first genocide that scholars tend to examine is the Armenian genocide‚ which began on April 24th‚ 1915 and by its conclusion in 1917 would have taken an estimated 800‚000 to 1.5 million lives. The Armenian Genocide was so horrific that in 1943 Raphael Lemkin‚ a polish lawyer‚ coined the word genocide deriving it from the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos‚ “race‚ kind”) or Latin gēns (“tribe‚ clan”) (as in genus)‚ + -cide (“killing‚ killer”). The
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were being plotted at the time. What exactly is the definition of a Genocide?? According to the World Book Dictionary‚ genocide means: The systematic extermination or destruction of a political‚ racial‚ or cultural group1. When the word genocide is brought up‚ many people usually think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was a massive tragedy‚ many don’t recall the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was just as terrifying as the Holocaust‚ and we should commemorate this
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training for months before the president’s plane was shot down. This shows that there might have been some evidence of advanced planning. Violence‚ trust‚ hate‚ and planning all play huge roles in the genocide that took place in Rwanda. According to the source there were four main episodes of the Rwanda genocide that date back to 1963. But before 1963 little is know about the hatred between the Hutu and Tutsi. In 1963 The Rwandan army killed 10-13‚000 Tutsi and left 150‚000 refugees. In 1972 The Tutsi
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1‚071‚000 people were killed in three months due to the genocide. This genocide is considered as the conflict between the two tribes in Rwanda---Hutus‚ carrying out the genocide‚ and Tutsis‚ having been massacred. Since it was really an amazing unfortunate event‚ many people in the world sympathized with that sad incidence. However‚ most people today think that we‚ as the citizen of the democratic society‚ are inconsequential to that genocide; it just happened because of the conflict of those two
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