Outline of the Rwandan Genocide: Draft Introduction Rwanda is a small land-locked nation‚ about 26‚338 square kilometres in size‚ bordered by Burundi‚ Democratic Republic of Congo‚ Uganda and Tanzania. Though mainly flat‚ the country has a large mountain range on its northwest coast – the Virunga Mountains – that are home to the famous Rwandan Mountain Gorillas. In 1994‚ this seemingly insignificant country put itself on the world map‚ but for all the wrong reasons. Over a period of just one hundred
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to have particularly devastating consequences. Indeed‚ it is widely claimed that the Armenians were victims of a deliberate genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman authorities – an accusation that continues to be strongly denied by Turkey. The Armenian genocide was a mass killing of the Armenian people who lived in the then Ottoman empire by the Ottoman citizens. This genocide happened in 1915 during
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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic killing of a racial‚ cultural or religious group. The Rwandan Genocide‚ which resulted in the mass murdering of over 800 000 Tutsi people‚ was one of the shortest but largest civil wars in earths history. Its cause‚ which is still debated about by historians today‚ has been a controversial topic since its occurrence. While it was sparked directly by the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana (a Hutu) when his plane was shot down‚ many believe
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both wanted control after independence. The cause of the genocide was not just the matter of the Tutsi attempting to wipe out the Hutu‚ it was also because of previous conflict between the 2‚ as the Tutsi trying to control the government.
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Genocide in the Mayan Highlands “They took them one by one to a ravine that was about twenty meters from where we were. We heard shots‚ screams and crying.”- Jesús Tecú Osorio. This was a testimony given by one on the survivors of the Guatemalan genocide of the Mayan highlands. The Guatemalan government used its counter insurgency force‚ to put pressure upon the Mayans who claimed they were starting a communist group. The Mayans natural allies the guerrillas added to the uprising human rights violations
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A Cry Still Unheard: The Menace Of Female Foeticide In India “I am daughter of India. I am like your daughters who are playing in your premises‚ who are bringing laurels to the nation like Sunita Williams‚ Kiran Bedi‚ Kalpana Chawla‚ Sania Mirza etc. But there is a difference between me and all of you as I have been killed in the womb of my mother itself.” Once in our lives‚ most of us must have heard that a child is a ‘gift’ from God. Though whatever biology may suggest‚ it is not an uncommon
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It is relevant today because although we are unaware of it‚ several countries are experiencing genocide warning at present. A Genocide Watch has been issued for the current crisis in Syria. Both the Syrian state and at least three other groups are committing genocide‚ crimes against humanity‚ as well as other war crimes daily. All four groups must be defeated militarily and their leaders should be tried for their crimes. The four
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Female infanticide..... Female foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus which is determined as a female. Female foeticide is prevalent in our country as a major social evil. The patriarchal social structure of India gives a secondary position to women. Social belief goes that the family runs through a male and hence the birth of a male child in the family is imminent to the carrying forward of its generation. Social discrimination and the preference for sons have given
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Female criminality attributes the disparities to the “masked behaviour” of female incidental to their roles (Pollak‚ 1950). Females have committed all types of crimes such as shoplifting‚ robbery and murder. However it is very rare that you would find a female committing murder as they are weaker than men and thus it is mostly the minor crimes they commit so they can get away with it. There are certain characteristics that were found in women who were in prison. These characteristics are age‚ marital
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its physical destruction in whole or in part;<br>d. imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;<br>e. forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.<br>(Destexhe).<br><br>In this paper‚ I will argue that the act of genocide as here defined‚ has been committed by the United States of America‚ upon the tribes and cultures of Native Americans‚ through mass indoctrination of its youths. Primary support will be drawn from Jorge Noriega’s work‚ "American Indian Education
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