Rwanda and Cambodian Genocide
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Many times we may hear but not respond, we see and don’t move and having the ability to take action we don’t even move a finger until the situation is out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia. The genocide of Cambodia started on the year of 1975 and ended on 1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period, where Pol Pot , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party took over Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge renamed it as Democratic Kampuchea. The four-year period of their rule was enough to see the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labor. Due to the large number of deaths, during the rule of the Khmer Rouge, this is commonly known as the Cambodian Holocaust or Cambodian Genocide. The Khmer Rouge period ended with the invasion of Cambodia by neighbor and former ally Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, which left Cambodia under Vietnamese occupation for a decade. The Rwandan Genocide, located on east Africa, was the murder on 1994 in which an estimated 800,000 people died. According to a Human Rights Watch estimate[i] at least 900,000 people were killed during approximately 100 days from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through the middle of July. Other estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000. This is equivalent to 20% of the country's total population. It was the result of an old ethnic competition and tensions between the minority that was Tutsi, who had complete power of Rwanda for centuries, and the majority, which was Hutu. The Hutu came to power in the rebellion of
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Many times we may hear but not respond, we see and don’t move and having the ability to take action we don’t even move a finger until the situation is out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia. The genocide of Cambodia started on the year of 1975 and ended on 1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period, where Pol Pot , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Khmer Rouge Communist party took over Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge renamed it as Democratic Kampuchea. The four-year period of their rule was enough to see the deaths of approximately two million Cambodians through the combined result of political executions, starvation, and forced labor. Due to the large number of deaths, during the rule of the Khmer Rouge, this is commonly known as the Cambodian Holocaust or Cambodian Genocide. The Khmer Rouge period ended with the invasion of Cambodia by neighbor and former ally Vietnam in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War, which left Cambodia under Vietnamese occupation for a decade. The Rwandan Genocide, located on east Africa, was the murder on 1994 in which an estimated 800,000 people died. According to a Human Rights Watch estimate[i] at least 900,000 people were killed during approximately 100 days from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through the middle of July. Other estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500,000 and 1,000,000. This is equivalent to 20% of the country's total population. It was the result of an old ethnic competition and tensions between the minority that was Tutsi, who had complete power of Rwanda for centuries, and the majority, which was Hutu. The Hutu came to power in the rebellion of
Cited: ----------------------- [i] Des Forges, Alison. “Leave No One to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda. Human Rights”. 17 January 2007 Watch. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda. 1 Apr. 2011 [ii] Kamm, Henry. Cambodia. (New York: Arcade Publishing 1998). 136 [iii] Holfer, Patricia. “Through My Eyes: Rwandan Genocide” 14 Dec. 1999 http://www.throughmyeyes.org.uk/server/show/nav.23319. 1 Apr 2011 [iv] Douglas, Martin, “Dith Pran, Photojournalist and survivor of the Killing Fields, Dies at’65”(New York Times) Obituary 31 Mar. 2008 A19 [v] Kamm.156 [vi] Patterson, Henry. “Mail Online: Khmer Rouge torturer describes killing babies by 'smashing them into trees.” 9 Jun. 2009 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article 1191601/Khmer-Rouge-torturer-describes-killing-babies-smashing-trees.html#ixzz1Ihrc4cZm 1 Apr. 2011 [vii] Lyons, Robert. The Rwandan Genocide. (New York :Zone Books 2006) 35 [viii] Kamn.179 [ix] Lyons.108