to a mass killing‚ or a genocide‚ if it continues down this road. The conflict forming in Yemen will turn into a genocide because it is currently following
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of people. It can also be manipulated or distorted to rationalize immoral actions. Religion can cause genocide‚ motivate war‚ and be used to control people. Religion can cause genocides‚ which can be seen with the Salem Witch Trials and Westward Expansion. In Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ accusations of townspeople being witches were rampant between 1692 and 1693.
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ILAS 225 November 29‚ 2011 The Indonesian Genocide To this day‚ the story of the Indonesian Genocide is still relatively unknown. It is only partially told‚ and partly visible through a thick haze of trickery and deception. Between October 1965 and 1966‚ it is estimated that between 500‚000 and 3‚000‚000 people were killed throughout various Indonesian islands‚ including Java‚ Sumatra‚ and Bali (the actual number will never be known for sure). The events that unfolded during this period
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One and a half to three MILLION people died in the Cambodian genocide. Genocide is the extermination of an entire race or group of people‚ or trying to completely wipe them out. That means there is murdering of the people‚ causing serious physical or mental harm‚ inflicting on group conditions to cause it’s destruction‚ terminate births within the group‚ or transferring people from the group to another group. In a genocide the most disgusting things are done‚ people are tortured‚ raped‚ worked to
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4.5 The Century’s First Genocide 1. What can be learned from Graffam’s letter about the motives of those who attacked the Armenians? From Graffam’s letter‚ it can be deduced that the people who attacked the Armenians had all bad motives‚ based on hate and discrimination. They wanted to send them away to be executed and taken to prisons or other locations. The attackers also wanted to steal the belongings of the Armenians and convinced the people that since they were going to die anyway‚ it was
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Genocide is the killing of a group of people for power‚ race‚ land‚ political or religious reasons. It is the extermination of large groups of people. Genocide includes the murder of men‚ women and children. In 1944 a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin defined this senseless killing of people‚ genocide. Lempkin along with the United Nations helped to establish that genocide was an international crime. The United Nations (UN)‚ The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights established
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ChileFrom 1973 - 1977‚ there was genocide in Chile. The targets were people who believed in the communist government system. The start of it all began on September 11th‚ 1973 when Chilean commander in chief‚ Augusto Pinochet Ugarte commanded the Chilean army and police force to overthrow the current president Salvador Allende. The main reason for the overthrow was because of Allende’s economic plan. With it‚ inflation was rising 1% every day. The only reason the coup was successful at overthrowing
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1918‚ after the first world war. The capital is Belgrade. This country is very diverse with all the people and their different ethnicities. These multiple ethnic groups caused many problems for the country not long ago. Problems like the Bosnian Genocide in the 1990s. They tried to get rid of the "different" people‚ the ones that could have been the only reason for problems in the country. From 1992 to 1995 one of the largest massacres in the world took place‚ the Bosnian War. It was an international
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The Rwandan Genocide was a major and bloody conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda. In my original poem “What Took the People of Rwanda?” the Hutu are referred mainly to as “the mighty‚” for they were the majority in Rwanda. The Tutsi are referred to as “the weak” because they were the minority. The poem begins with “two boys‚” or two ethnic groups‚ “stand[ing] against each other… because of times long ago not yet forgotten.” This is in reference to the past when the Tutsi ruled Rwanda
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Hunter Epperson Mr. Penner Research Paper November 4th‚ 2013 Kurdish Genocide The Kurds are located in the Middle East within several countries: Turkey‚ Syria‚ Iraq and surrounding lands. The raid on the Kurdish people first started in the 7th century with the conquering of their land by the Arabs (Rutgers‚ 2013). From the 7th century until the late 13th century‚ their lands were occupied by several different groups. From the 13th century until World War 1‚ the Ottoman Empire was in control
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