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    Bosnian Genocide

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    Oliver Goschow The Bosnian Genocide and How It Changed Society The Bosnian Genocide is one of the most horrific events of our modern history. Under the former Yugoslavia‚ different ethnicities were all compressed under the regime of Josip Broz “Tito”‚ who managed to keep them united for 35 years‚ however after the death of Tito‚ violence escalated. Under General Ratko Mladić’s leadership‚ neighbors started killing neighbors‚ and changed the way Serbs‚ Bosnians and Croats treat each other

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    The Armenian Genocide

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    The Armenian Genocide is a period from 1915 and continuing into the 1920s that describes the mass killing of over one million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire‚ which is known today as Turkey (Bloxham 141). The genocide “officially” started on April 14‚ 1915‚ a day in which “prominent members of the Ottoman Armenian community were incarcerated en masse in Constantinople” (Bloxham 141). This began the eventual surge of imprisonment and killings of Armenian men‚ and deportation‚ rape‚ and killings of

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    Causes of Genocide

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    Causes of Genocide In 1944 after the second World War a man named Raphael Lempkin coined the word genocide. Genocide is the killing of a group of people with the intent to destroy‚ and even though the word genocide wasn’t around until 1944 doesn’t mean that genocide wasn’t around. This horrible act has been around for as long as people have been on the earth. In class we learned about the many different cases of genocide and found out that they all had something in common‚ and that was the causes

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    Prevention of Genocide

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    Prevention of Genocide William A. Schabas* 1. Introduction The prevention of genocide has figured on the agenda of the United Nations virtually from the organisation’s very beginning. Resolution 96(I)‚ adopted at the initial session of the General Assembly‚ pledged the organisation to prevent and punish genocide. It called for the preparation of a treaty on the subject. Two years later the General Assembly adopted the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide‚1 its very

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    Rwandan Genocide

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    The international community’s had a strong reaction and response to the Rwandan genocide in the film of “Hotel Rwanda”. During 1994‚ the world stood idly by as Rwanda was devastated by the most horrifying genocide since the Holocaust. A weekly flight‚ Belgian C-130 Hercules was carrying the UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda) troops‚ as they were returning from leave and had been scheduled to land before the presidential jet‚ but was waved off to give the presidents priority. A

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    The Rwandan Genocide

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    The Rwandan Genocide History has a funny way of repeating itself. After World War II‚ the United States and the rest of the international community promised to do all they could to prevent future genocides. However this was a promise they were unable to keep. In 1994 when Rwanda went through genocide the United States and U.N were absent‚ leaving the Tutsis to be brutally murdered by the Hutus. As a consequence 800‚000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed and dumped into mass graves. Once again

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    Genocide In Syria

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    Genocide is not just a numbers game‚ but a crime of intent”(Harvey). The Assad Regime is trying to eliminate everyone who doesn’t have the same beliefs as them (the Sunnis) and this is a very serious topic‚ and something needs to be done about it because it is the cause of many deaths‚ it is destroying the country‚ and it is something that is happening and will happen time and time again. This paper will cover the genocide that is happening in Syria‚ it will state why it is happening and who is

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    Rwadan Genocide

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    1‚071‚000 people were killed in three months due to the genocide. This genocide is considered as the conflict between the two tribes in Rwanda---Hutus‚ carrying out the genocide‚ and Tutsis‚ having been massacred. Since it was really an amazing unfortunate event‚ many people in the world sympathized with that sad incidence. However‚ most people today think that we‚ as the citizen of the democratic society‚ are inconsequential to that genocide; it just happened because of the conflict of those two

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    The Armenian Genocide

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    “The Armenian Genocide” In 1948‚ the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention‚ and in doing so defined the term “genocide” as “acts committed with the intent to destroy‚ in whole‚ or in part‚ a national‚ ethical‚ racial‚ or religious group” (Totten and Parsons 4). Indeed by many scholars‚ this is thought to be the case as to what happened to the Armenian population within the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Rouben Paul Adalian‚ author of the critical essay “The Armenian Genocide” published within

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    Armenian Genocide

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    were being plotted at the time. What exactly is the definition of a Genocide?? According to the World Book Dictionary‚ genocide means: The systematic extermination or destruction of a political‚ racial‚ or cultural group1. When the word genocide is brought up‚ many people usually think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was a massive tragedy‚ many don’t recall the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was just as terrifying as the Holocaust‚ and we should commemorate this

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