800‚000 people died in the Rwandan Genocide. Since it lasted 100 days‚ about 8‚000 people died every day. Due to the efforts of an upstander‚ that number could have been higher. 1 upstander from the genocide is the Red Cross. They are brave and kind. I can compare the Red Cross to only one person‚ Greg Mortenson. Here are some similarities and differences from both upstanders. To start off‚ who is Greg Mortenson? He is a person who sold everything he owned to help build schools in Pakistan. He
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The occurrences during what has come to be known as the Herero and Namaqua Genocide were brutal and have been seen as the first attempts at genocide. This piece will analyse the issue at large and also two primary sources relating to this tragedy in an attempt to shed light on the subject of the Herero situation in particular. Firstly‚ to properly contextualise and analyse the two documents‚ we have to look at who wrote the documents themselves. The author of both documents was Lothar von Trotha
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In 1945‚ Indonesia proclaimed its Independence from the Dutch. A strong nationalist named Sukarno lead the movement‚ soon followed by Suharto. Having to be ruled by the Dutch for many years‚ Indonesia had to build everything from the start. They suffered in unification due to their diversity‚ and faced economic and government instabilities as a new nation. During this period of unstable economy‚ Indonesia have violated many human rights. However‚ their strong belief of Independence helped them become
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Analysis of the Armenian Genocide The Ottoman Empire had been in a steady decline for years and a new government and identified a problem‚ the Armenians‚ to blame. In an attempt to solve their problem‚ the Ottoman Turks attempted to exterminate the entire Armenian population‚ known as genocide‚ as the solution. However‚ the Turks deny the existence of a genocide and claim it was a civil war between the Armenians and themselves. Despite claiming the Armenian Genocide was a civil war‚ it is clear that
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Country: Syria 1. Previous History of Systemic Acts of Violence The Syrian breakdown began in 2011 when Syrian President Bashar el-Assad began a brutal crackdown because of the peaceful protestors of the country. The attacks escalated when a civil war broke out between the Assad Regime with allied militias and opposition groups against the protesters because a group of kids under the age of 15 sprayed a wall with graffiti‚ demeaning the Assad Regime‚ which was considered a crime against the
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CULtURAL GENOCIDE RECONSIDERED Robert van Krieken* I Introduction One aspect of the Bringing them Home Report1 that has caused considerable controversy was its appeal to the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide2 (‘UNGC’) to characterise the removal of Aboriginal children as state-sponsored genocide.3 This utilisation of the UNGC having been debated in the wake of the Bringing Them Home Report‚ there is now general agreement that it was deeply
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Khaira 2/6/12 6th hour Genocide in Today’s Humanity The United States has always‚ and probably will continue to‚ meddle with foreign affairs that do not concern them. We‚ as a nation‚ have suffered mentally‚ physically‚ and economically for reasons that do not concern us. People have taken notice of this and are starting to get frustrated with the lack of personal interests before foreign tribulations. Specifically‚ this country has tried to police worldwide genocide. For this motive‚ the country
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Act of Genocide? According to Kavin Lehnardt”during the holocaust ‚6 million Jews were murdered”. Jews were an inferior race.Adolf Hitler tried to kill all the Jews(history.com). Adolf Hitler and the Nazis created concentration camps to put the Jews in . Others may believe that the holocaust was not an act of genocide. One reason the holocaust should be considered an act of genocide is based on the United Nations definition. The “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment” of genocide treaty
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Stanton’s stage The first stage of genocide known as “classification” is the process of one party classifying others as outsiders. This causes a chain reaction and creates hate among the two groups‚ and ultimately this leads to the introduction of Genocide. The first stage is important not to be ignored by the media or government because once the hate created by classification begins‚ propaganda soon follows‚ leading to encouraged rivalries and hate among simple minded people. Stage two‚ symbolization
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Argentina War http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20793884 Torture centres There was court investigated crimes against 200 opponents of the military regime in six illegal detention centers in Buenos Aires‚ One of the crimes was a kidnapping of a man named Jacobo Timerman who was tortured by electric shocks‚ beatings and solitary confinement in the years he was held illegally. The prosecutor said Jaime Smart was a leading factor in the persecution of opponents in the military. The illegal
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