The Causes of Genocide: WWI World War I was the deadliest war of the 20th century resulting in a death toll of around 16 million and over 20 million injured. However‚ this deadly conflict cannot be blamed on solely one country‚ but on many different countries that used imperialism and nationalism to their personal gain. The outbreak of WWI was primarily due to the tensions created by nationalistic ideas‚ imperialistic actions taken by many European countries‚ and militarism which is a combination
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Name Mr. McCann Honors World History 22 March 2014 Genocides of the Twentieth Century Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention of the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide (1948) as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy‚ in a whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnical‚ racial‚ or religious group; as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
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genocidal events in the past century‚ has sparked many awareness programs to prevent another event of similar nature from happening again. Genocide is the act of deliberately killing a large group of people‚ especially those of a similar ethnic group or nation. These awareness efforts in recent years have lead historians to ask: Why does genocide occur? Often‚ genocide is the product of political and ethnic tensions
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ethnicity does not always explain genocide. Hinton’s research proves that violence does not necessarily occur because people are evil. During the Cambodian genocide people who would not usually commit such atrocious acts did so because of the circumstances they were in. In the case of the Cambodian genocide it was there cultural orientation that explained why people behaved in violent ways. Political‚ cultural and social regions were all factors that allowed the genocide to escalate. Under the Khmer Rouge
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The Rwandan Genocide was from April to July of 1994. During the Rwandan Genocide‚ there were two major groups. The two groups were the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus were poor farmers they were the lower class or peasants and did not have a lot of resources or a lot of money. The Hutus was recognized as the ethnic majority of Rwandan. The Hutus appearances were quite different from the Tutsis. The Hutus were darker‚ shorter‚ and uneducated. The Tutsis were cattle farmers and were identified as
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Genocides have been the recurring factor in history that results in the cost of millions of lives - women‚ men‚ and children. The term genocide means the deliberate and systematic extermination committed against a group - racial‚ cultural‚ religious‚ or national. Genocides happen to erase or destroy the existence of the specific group. Most mass executions and murders of groups of happen during genocides‚ whether they be through sheer chance of being in the murderous state or a targeted group. Hundreds
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Sary‚ Jo-Ann Armenian Genocide On World War I‚ there were two million Armenians in the falling apart of the Ottoman Empire. By 1922‚ there were fewer than 400‚000. The others some 1.5 million Armenians were killed in what historians consider genocide. Widely praised history of World War I and its aftermath‚ “A Peace to End All Peace Rape and beating were a common place”. Those
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population not go completely away. Talaat‚ also known as the main architect of the genocide‚ was hiding in Berlin shortly before he was killed in 1921. Officials of the CUP were arrested. The military faced charges. Those who were charged and blamed for this act became angry. They soon built the “Turkish Movement.” The “Turkish Movement” consisted of the people who were angry about getting charged for the genocide of the Armenians. A campaign of the military went against Russian Armenia and refugee
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Darfur Genocide “The “Darfur Genocide” refers to the current mass slaughter and rape of Darfuri men‚ women and children in Western Sudan” (“Darfur”).These killings of Darfuri villagers began in 2003 and as of today‚ over 480‚000 have been brutally murdered. This crisis is still ongoing‚ even though action is being taken by other countries and organizations to stop the violence. Suffering is still constant in Darfur as of today and will not be abolished until peace is ensured in the country (“Darfur”)
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Cambodians to camps to work on farms. Killing fields were set up over the country. Killing fields were where the Khmer Rouge took Cambodians who were no longer considered useful. People were blind folded‚ killed and buried in a mass grave yard. This mass genocide was a very scaring event and Cambodians today are still trying to move on and rebuild their lives. Sydney Schanberg‚ a New York Times reporter‚ and Dith Pran‚ Sydney’s friend and interpreter from Cambodia‚ are on assignment to report about the
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