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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To start off‚ “Genocide” is categorized as the action of exterminating a certain ethnicity‚ race‚ and or religion. In Sudan‚ the government and the Janjaweed have classified anyone that gets in their way a problem thus‚ making them victims. The 8 Stages of genocide explain the steps taken to classify the problems Darfur as a genocide. It’s known that after a genocide takes place it’s hard for any economy to bounce back. The genocide taking place in Sudan‚ driven by the negligent government and an
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Brown 1 Ms. Dewees Senior Seminar 5-22-09 The Rwandan Genocide The Rwandan Genocide was massive killings in 1994. Rwanda was characterized by ethnic divides between the Hutu and Tutsi population. The Tutsis were being targeted no matter what age or gender. Innocent civilians were all unarmed and weren’t given a chance. It established ethnic conflict that would eventually leave Rwanda in great potential for future violence. The genocide escalated from a peaceful background over hundreds of years
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There are 8 stages of genocide the first stage is classification. The Jewish people‚ homosexuals‚ handicapped‚ and gypsies were the main target for the Nazi’s. The reason why was because Adolf Hitler thought that Germany was becoming weaker because of the people who he thought were to be Genetically week. His idea of a non weak person is a person who is pale‚ blonde hair‚ and blue eyes. The second stage of Genocide is Symbolization‚ the Nazi soldier’s symbolized targeted people with
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Nima Golchin Ms.Sconnyer Liturature 18 October‚ 2012 The Al Anfal campaign The operation was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoils of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages‚ agriculture‚ infrastructures‚ roads‚ etc. The operation was carried from early 1986 until late 1989 and it took the lives of more than 2‚150‚000 mostly women‚ children‚ and elders as most
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been at constant war with the Hutu government. The fuse blew when the plane of Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down while returning from a peace conference. From that point on the Hutus waged a genocidal campaign against the Tutsi. The UN’s peacekeeping force has made attempts to protect civilians
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Armenian Massacres should be considered genocide. More specifically‚ historians argue if the Armenian Massacres were precipitated by Turkish nationalism‚ Armenian rebellion‚ or Western and Russian influence. There are two main opposing views in this argument of genocide‚ the Western view and the Turkish view. The West views these massacres as a genocide carried out by the Ottoman and Turkish governments. Turks argue that these massacres should not be considered genocide and that these massacres were not
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The Rwanda Genocide Genocide‚ the mass murder of a specific group of people. Rwanda‚ a small country about the size of Maryland‚ USA‚ located near the equator‚ it shares borders with Tanzania‚ Burundi‚ Uganda‚ and the Democratic Republic Of The Congo. In April to July of 1994‚ Rwanda went through genocide. The manslaughter of five hundred thousand to estimated about one million Tutsi had persevered for only one hundred days. The capital of Rwanda is Kigali‚ Rwanda‚ currency is the rwandan franc‚
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What do you think about when you hear the word genocide? Probably the Holocaust and if someone said name another genocide in human history you would draw up blank. . True without the Holocaust we probably wouldn’t have all of the laws preventing genocide or groups monitoring conflicts of signs of genocide‚ but it still would have happened. Even with all of the precautions we have to prevent it‚ it still happens. Without the knowledge of all of the horrible things that we do to each other we are ignorant
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A controversial topic is whether or not genocide still occur today‚ a genocide is a universal language any group of people wanting to gain superior power over a group of people or the world. The first genocide occurred over 30000 years ago‚ when Homo sapiens came across the unique independent type of humans and destroy them to seize more space on
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