The Game Darfur is Dying is a game where you have to go through what the people in Darfur are going through. You are given the experience of suffering through hunger‚ loss of a family member or friend‚ and torture and pain. You are given the option to choose an avatar that varies from male to female from the age of 10 to a fully grown adult in their thirties. The first part of the game is to forage for water‚ but it is not as easy as it sounds. You have to run and hide from Janjaweed militias that
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Why did NATO attack Yugoslavia in 1999 and use air power‚ as it’s main means of Force? On the 24th March 1999 NATO initiated offensive military action against Yugoslavia.1 Air power was NATO’s only means of attack‚ meaning that no ground troops were to enter Yugoslavia and that all offensive missions were to occur with aircraft. The name given for this campaign was OPERATION ALLIED FORCE and has been quoted as “the most precise application of air power in history”2 This was a first of it’s kind
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created growing tension amongst the Great Powers which would lead to a series of Ultimatums and mobilisations which would affect many people’s lives. The annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina also known as the Bosnain Crisis of 1908-1909 erupted when on the 6th of October 1908‚ the Autrian-Hungarian Empire announced the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina . Russia‚ Turkey‚ Britain‚ Italy‚ Germany‚ France‚ Serbia and the rest of the Balkan Nations took interest in the event. A revision of the Treaty of Berlin
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The occurrences during what has come to be known as the Herero and Namaqua Genocide were brutal and have been seen as the first attempts at genocide. This piece will analyse the issue at large and also two primary sources relating to this tragedy in an attempt to shed light on the subject of the Herero situation in particular. Firstly‚ to properly contextualise and analyse the two documents‚ we have to look at who wrote the documents themselves. The author of both documents was Lothar von Trotha
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was in fact the cause for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The rift between Austria-Hungary and Serbia began in 1908‚ when the Austrians gained control (by force) of Serbia‚ which had originally been part of Greater Serbia. Ever since Bosnia had been snatched from Serbia’s control‚ there had been increasing instability from within the country‚ due to the fact that many Serbians still lived there‚ and believed that they were being treated unfairly by the Austrians; this led to the group
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ENG 370b Balkan Cinema Final Project Research Paper The Eastern perception of homosexuality in ‘’Go West’’ “In Bosnia‚ when you buy land and start to dig the foundation for a house‚ you can never be sure you won’t find a mass grave; there’s been so much bloodshed‚” said Ahmed Imamovic when asked about his latest film ‘’Belvedere’’‚ the Bosnian nomination for the Oscars of 2012. (Hampton 2011) Although the movie is considered his greatest accomplishment so far by both critics and audience‚ he
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Media and Anti-Corruption In some countries‚ such as Bulgaria‚ Macedonia‚ Bosnia Herzegovina‚ and Albania to a much lesser extent‚ the independent media has brought to the fore numerous corruption cases‚ exposing high officials. It has also been a major force behind mobilizing public opinion against corruption‚ as in the case of Bulgaria. At the same time it has exerted indirect pressure on the respective governments to take steps to limit corruption practices. The Bulgarian independent
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Europe in the early 20th Century created a tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia that culminated in WWI. This tension was caused by the threat Pan-Slavism posed on Austria-Hungary due to its high Slavic population and its recent annexation of Bosnia Herzegovina. Another tension-builder was that Russia‚ a Slavic nation and a super-power at the time‚ was fully supporting this movement‚ thereby indirectly challenging Austria-Hungary to control of its own people. The tension had been mounting long
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Austria- Hungary’s South Slav provinces so that they could all be a part of Yugoslavia. The perpetrators for this crime have been caught and tried. The Austrian- Yugoslavian ties have been stressed ever since Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ which were areas that the Ottoman Empire had the sovereignty to. This resulted in protests from the Great Powers (United Kingdom‚ Italy‚ France‚ Japan‚ and the United States) because it was viewed as a violation of the Treaty of Berlin
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Chotek( she was of the empire that the Austro-Hungarians did not appreciate very well). The Actual Event of the Assassination: Archduke and his wife are shot and killed by a Serbian Nationalist on June 28‚ 1914 in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia. The archduke and his wife were visiting Bosnia on political matters. While they were touring Sarajevo‚ they were in a processional of cars with very little security. They
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