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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Holodomor Genocide Essay The famine that occurred in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933‚ also known as the Holodomor‚ wiped out millions of Ukrainians. The Soviet Union denied that this tragic event was genocide but some facts say different. Joseph Stalin‚ who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the famine‚ did not want Ukrainians to be independent from the Soviet Union‚ therefore he created the famine to target Ukrainians. Stalin did not only see Ukraine’s independence as a threat‚ he also
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China‚ officially the People’s Republic of China‚ is a country located in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country‚ with a population of over 1.3 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China‚ with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces‚ five autonomous regions‚ four direct-controlled municipalities‚ and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions . The PRC also claims Taiwan – which
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oppressing and silencing Indigenous voices. Canada is currently preparing for the 150th anniversary of Canada or as Indigenous peoples have stated‚ the 150th anniversary of colonization. The way to combat the day of celebrating Indigenous control and genocide varies throughout Canada. Some people suggest resisting the celebration with protests‚ whilst others suggest for the push for changes that reflect the true history of Canada. Lillian Howard‚ the co-chair of the Vancouver Urban Aboriginal Peoples
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The first stage of genocide is described as classification describing the differentiating between hated groups from normal society (Stanton‚ 1996). As investigated by the USHMM (2015)‚ classification throughout Europe was know as the difference between “Inferior” and “Superior” races. The races considered “Inferior” were Jews‚ Roma gypsies‚ Homosexuals‚ Jehovah’s Witnesses‚ the Polish‚ upon others. While these groups were classified as “Inferior” Hitler often referred to the Aryan race as the pure
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were the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide? The causes of the Rwandan genocide were deeply seeded to the collapse and struggle for dominance within a previously established hierarchy. The roots of ethnic conflicts often find themselves tied to arbitrary guidelines of division between groups. It is this segregation that leads to a fight for power when a hierarchy becomes destabilized. This is exactly the case with the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the intervention of Belgian colonialism
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However the Kurdish genocide started decades before the Anfal and has claimed countless fatalities and victims. Anfal was part of an extensive policy that was started in the 1960s on Saddam Hussein’s ascension to power to ethnic cleansing the Kurdish inhabitance from northern part of Iraq. This process named as “Arabization” spanned the years from the early 1960s to 1991 and succeeded in substantively driving Kurdish families out of their houses in the Kurdistan region to desert areas of Iraq or
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decades of Hutu rule‚ under which the Tutsi faced extreme discrimination and bursts of extermination. This continual struggle between groups‚ and the assassination of both Rwanda’s and Burundi’s presidents‚ sparked violence and ‘primed the pump’ for genocide. Under the command of the Belgian government‚ the Tutsi lead privileged lives while the Hutu faced widespread discrimination. As soon as the Hutu government took over Rwanda following their independence from Belgium‚ they immediately flipped the
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ANCIENT CHINA. READING 2 COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS The Unification of China (pp. 105 – 110) 1. Where were Legalist doctrines met enthusiastically? The state of Qin. 2. Where was the Qin state? Western China. 3. Who oversaw the implementation of the Legalist doctrines in the Qin state? 4. What did the Qin state quickly do? 5. What happened to the Qin state in the fourth and third centuries B.C.E? 6. How did Shang Yang encourage farmers to move to the Qin state? 7. Why did the
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Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”). Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996‚ a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been
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