the word genocide. This controversial topic has utterly reshaped many individual’s minds and perspective on what the word truly means. Yet‚ this word has a variety of definitions to a variety of different people. The general definition of genocide is defined as “the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation” However‚ the definition of genocide goes beyond what is described in a common dictionary. The true definition of a genocide lies in
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In just three months‚ from April to July of 1994‚ more than half a million Tutsi people were murdered. Some sources say that the Rwandan genocide should be renamed “The genocide against the Tutsi” because not both groups were affected. The mass killing took place in Rwanda‚ located in Africa near the equator. It is one of the most populated countries in Africa‚ and is also one of the poorest countries in the world. The feud started because Rwanda was under the Belgian administration and the Tutsi
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In his essay‚ "After the Genocide"‚ Philip Georevitch describes his experience in Rwanda during the county’s genocide. He wrote this essay to inform people about the mass ethnic killings in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis tribes. He tells outsiders that the situation in Rwanda in not as simple as a dispute between two tribes but is more complex than that. The author returned to Rwanda many times in order to make sense of what happens by interviewing people who witnessed this genocide. This
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were being plotted at the time. What exactly is the definition of a Genocide?? According to the World Book Dictionary‚ genocide means: The systematic extermination or destruction of a political‚ racial‚ or cultural group1. When the word genocide is brought up‚ many people usually think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust was a massive tragedy‚ many don’t recall the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was just as terrifying as the Holocaust‚ and we should commemorate this
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Iraqi Genocide of the Kurdish Population The genocide of the Kurdish population in the northern portion of Iraq by Saddam Hussein and the Ba ’ath Party reached its more intense period form 1987 until 1989. During this campaign‚ it is estimated that as many as 182‚000 Kurdish men‚ women‚ and children were killed by chemical weapon attacks‚ through mass executions‚ or because of horrible conditions and treatment in prison camps (Sinan‚ 2007). More then one third of the 3.5 million Kurds in northern
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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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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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Armenian Genocide Andy Leeds Ms. Bullis English 1 April 24 Armenians are a Christian nation‚ and when they were a country‚ they were the first to proclaim Christianity as the state religion. The Ottoman Empire took control of Armenia during the 15th century‚ and they were mistreated for quite a while due to religious differences (Christians vs. Muslims)‚ and this mistreatment culminated and peaked during 1915-1918. During World War I‚ the Ottoman Empire took the opportunity among a world of chaos
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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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Genocide in Rwanda (Culminating Task) Lynch Alcala a.) Summary Rwanda is separated into two major ethnic groups‚ the Huts and the Tutsis. Majority of Rwandans are Hutus who make up about 80 per cent of the population‚ and only about 15 per cent are Tutsis. These two ethnic groups shared the same language and culture‚ but there had been conflicts between the two groups that occurred during the colonial period. Rwanda was colonized by Belgians after the first World War. There had been racism
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