Genocide is something that has been going on for centuries, all around the world. The people that experience this kind of violation against their humanity and right to live get scared for life. Most of them die, but the once that survive can tell their story to the rest of the world. They can let the world know about the horrible things that have happened.
Every group of people have got categories that they put people in to distinguish “us and them”. The classification can be decided by ethnicity, religion, race or nationality. The next step in the genocide is the symbolization. Which means that the groups the people have been divided into, are given names or symbols to highlight the classification. …show more content…
They are denied their humanity and are associated with diseases, vermin, animals and insects. Hate propaganda is at this stage in form of hate radios and print used to vilify the victim group. Genocide is always organized, and that is usually by the state. The state is often using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility. This is when the genocidal killings are being planed. The militias are getting ready to attack. The groups are driven apart by extremists and there are being broadcasted polarizing propaganda. The center is being silenced by extremist’s terrorism that has targeted moderates and intimidated them. The ones to be killed first, are generally moderates from the perpetrators that to stop the genocide.
In the preparations the victims are being identified and separated because of their religious or ethnic identity. The death lists are being drawn up. The identifying symbols must be worn, so that it is easy to identify the victims. The victims can be confined to a famine-struck region and starved, placed in ghettoes or deported to concentration camps. By this time there must be declared a Genocide