Genocide in Sri Lanka To quote the late Chinese politician Mao Tse-Tung a‚ “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” Genocide; is the deliberate and systematic destruction‚ in whole or in part‚ of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or national group. But why do we participate in a matter that can only have a negative outcome? The ongoing struggle can be related to the religious‚ political and the European intervention to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka a small island that lies
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the Rwanda Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide began on the 6th of April 1994‚ where the Hutu population began mass slaughtering of the Tutsi. There were two different groups killing people they were‚ the Interahamwe and the Hutu rebellious. The genocide killed upwards of eight hundred thousand people mainly Tutsi‚ and created two million refugees. The genocide was a major mass killing where people still to this day being convicted of mass murdering and being jailed. During Rwanda’s genocide there were
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Raphael Lemkin‚ a genocide scholar‚ and two others‚ authored the original May 1947 draft of the genocide convention for the UN Secretariat. This draft included cultural genocide as one of its three aspects of genocide and‚ arguably‚ should the UNGC be revised in future‚ aspects of the original draft merit consideration for inclusion (MacDonald and Hudson). The cultural form enumerated five methods of attempting to destroy the specific characteristics of the group: (a) forcible transfer of children
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The United Nations & United States’ Mishandling of the Rwandan Genocide Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families is an account of the Rwandan genocide and his observation of its aftermath. One of the major problems that occurred which allowed this genocide to happen was the failure of the United Nations and United States to take action. The U.N. came into existence immediately following the end of the Second World War. The creation of this organization
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Rusesabagina saved more than 1‚200 refugees in his hotel‚ what was the world doing to help refugees during the genocide? Nothing‚ the UN hardly helped at all during the entire genocide. Paul was the hotel manager for the hotel Diplomates‚ a high end hotel where foreigner government officials stayed. Another hotel‚ hotel Mille Collines‚ was another hotel Paul had access to. During the Rwandan genocide Paul kept over a thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu save in the walls of the Mille Collines. He kept these
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tensions worsened between the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s in Rwanda. These tensions resulted in the mass killings of Tutsi’s from April-July 1994 where 800 000 Tutsi’s were killed. This event was constituted as genocide based on the 8 stages of Genocide and correlates with the definition of genocide set out by the United Nations in 1948‚ however the United Nations and the Western countries especially the USA considered the killings as part of a civil war. From 1916-1959 Rwanda was under Belgium colonial
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was still extremely concerned because his wife‚ Tatiana‚ was Tutsi‚ which also made his children mixed. This made his wife and children a target along with the other Tutsi people. I found Paul Rusesabagina’s character inspiring because despite the genocide that was taking place all around his hotel‚ he still decided to take action. Paul Rusesabagina had a remarkable amount of courage
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Americans and the UN troops that were together they should of had control over the radio so they could have just given some Tutsis a head up. Why didn’t we just train some of the Tutsis to fight back and maybe more of them‚ could of lived or this genocide would have never
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Evaluate the response by the international community to the Rwandan Genocide. Cali O’Connor “According to Kofi Annan‚ If the pictures of tens of thousands of human bodies gnawed on by dogs do not wake us out of our apathy‚ I do not know what will.” While the Hutus murdered as many as 800‚000 people‚ mostly tutsis‚ a lot of people sat and watched. Some people tried to help the Tutsis but the majority of people did not do a thing but watch and kept quiet. The Hutus were towards the government
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In the past‚ people’s hatred toward other people has shown its effect in many different ways. For instance the Rwanda Genocide‚. dDuring April 7‚ 1994 - July 1994‚ 800‚000‚ Tutsi ethnic minority was killed by the Hutu ethnic majority. Hutu extremists made anti-Tutsi propaganda implying that marrying‚ doing business‚ or being friends with the Tutsi people was considered treason. The FPR (Rwandan Patriotic Front) a Tutsi political party in Rwanda utilized guerrilla warfare tactics against the Interahamwe
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