English 12 Period 3 29 April 2013 Armenian Genocide and The Rape of Nanking There have been far more genocides in our world’s history than there ever should have been. It is astounding to me that our world does not learn from the terrible mistakes others have made‚ and that our world has allowed for so many terrible hate crimes to keep happening. There needs to be concrete actions we can take to keep horrible things like this from happening again. I believe that one of the best ways to do
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The Holocaust‚ also known as Shoah‚ was a mass genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany along with collaborators killed about six million Jews. “Holocaust” or the final solution is the word originated from two Greek words “holos” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning burned or all together‚ “sacrifice by fire.” Historically‚ Holocaust signifies sacrifices offered on the altar. After 1945‚ the word modified to take horrible meaning of mass destruction and loss of life. Owing to the brutal murder
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Rwanda became a country on a spotlight in the year 1994‚ not for the positive progress but a disappointing act of atrocity conducted by a faction of people. The terrible events that led to mass murder and genocide in the country startled not only the region but the world at large. Many of the Hutu who were the majority of the population consisting of about 85% of the total population‚ turned on the Tutsi who were the minority with around 12% of the total population‚ and moderate Hutus‚ it led to
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Cambodia is a country in Southeast Asia who I believed went through a Genocide just as bad as the Holocaust. In April 1975‚ armed Cambodians known as the Khmer Rouge had invaded Cambodia after winning a five-year-long civil war. The Khmer Rouge came and forced all of the Cambodians out of their homes‚ took their money and more without explaining their reason. In the first chapter of book David Chandler’s book Voices from S-21‚ Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Secret Prison‚ it talked about how after
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my existence. On November 1999 I was born in the Mayukwayukwa camp‚ a refugee camp located in Mongu Zambia. It’s a community where refugees take shelter because their past home has been shattered. The origin of this is because of the Rwandan Genocide. The refugee
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no matter how many times they would cry and complain the Europeans had no mercy. The term Genocide is Latin and means the killing or murder of any tribe. The genocide was not just huge slaughtering of Native Americans; it also known as a disease of the Europeans that killed the Native Americans. The Europeans killed the Indians for land in North America as they tried to expand their territory. The war between the Europeans and Native Americans lasted several years‚ it was on and off from the
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Omnia’s faction started soon after the bombs dropped. Starting off as a small band of scavengers‚ and going onto raiders they did everything they could to get ahead of everyone else. Lot’s of the members of Omnia consisted of psychopaths‚ cannibals‚ and just consisted of horrible human beings. They were widly considered one of the baddest‚ richest‚ raider groups in the Wasteland at some point. It didn’t take long for Omnia to bathe in their riches‚ and realize the horrible things they did to get
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king of Denmark and take the thrown. Hamlets close friend Horatio is currently in questioning‚ but has promised to share the details with the world. The new king of Denmark‚ Fortinbras‚ has stated “Hamlet should have a proper burial with the rites of war and soldier’s music since he would’ve been a good
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Massacre‚ and The Medvedev Forest Massacre. (Pierpaoli‚1) These genocides happened all over the Soviet Union. Within the Soviet Union was Moldova‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania‚ Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Tajikistan‚Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan‚ Russia‚ Armenia‚Azerbaijan‚ Georgia‚ and Ukraine. The Soviet Union was the largest country in the world.The Holomodor was mainly in Ukraine along with the Vinnytsia
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Period 6 Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust Genocide is defined as killing‚ injuring‚ giving poor conditions to‚ preventing births‚ and transferring children to other groups to a national‚ racial‚ religious‚ or ethnic group. This was defined after the widely-known holocaust in 1948. Among the holocaust‚ genocides include the Rwandan Genocide‚ Armenian Genocide‚ and Cambodian Genocide. Two genocides that have striking similarities and differences are the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust. The
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