and the problem of genocide Course: Michel Focault Written by: Rauf Ahmed From the readings of two texts of Focault‚ one is the part five (Right of Death and Power over Life) from the book “History of Sexuality: vol. 1 Introduction” and second text is the eleventh lecture from the book “Society Must be Defended‚ Lectures at the college de France‚ 1975- 76” I try to articulate the Focault’s concept of biopower and its main notions in this writing. “If genocide is indeed the dream
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In just 100 days in 1944 over 800‚000 tutsis were killed in the Rwandan genocide. That is a horrible and shocking fact‚ but the worst fact is that no one stepped in to help them. From 1922 to 1962 Belgium came and took Rwanda over. There were two different kinds of people in Rwanda‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus made up about 85% of Rwanda while the Tutsi was a minority making up only about 14%. Despite being a minority Belgium favored the Tutsi people because of their longer noses and brighter
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Aftermath of the Genocide By taking a closer look at Rwanda and its people‚ I came to realize that despite the genocidal violence that occurred‚ Rwanda was its ’ own country with its ’ own unique traditions‚ customs‚ and cultures. Nonetheless the media attention surrounding the genocide in Rwanda is unavoidable. By researching Rwanda I have come to find out that one thing the media does not cover is the aftermath of the genocide. I will take a closer look into why the genocide happened‚ what we
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According to Dictionary.com‚ Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national‚ racial‚ political‚ or cultural group. In the mass population‚ when most people think about genocide‚ they think about the Nazi holocaust in World War II. Where Adolf Hitler ordered that all Jews be whipped off the face of the Earth. Over six million people died during those times. Up to that point‚ the world has not seen such a vile and horrible act done to another person since 1915 in Armenia. After
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The Rwandan genocide is an event that forever will be looked upon in history as one of oversight and scandal. Taking place over a course of 100 days in 1994 with the murder of over a half a million innocents‚ though it was truly a critical event‚ what people may not realize is there were many times it could have been stopped or prevented altogether. It can be universally agreed upon that the Rwandan genocide was a disastrous affair that should have never occurred. However‚ we need to take it further
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One of the last major genocides that has occurred and been recorded within the 21st century is the genocide that occurred in Darfur against the civilian groups of the Fur‚ Massalit‚ and Zaghawa (p.515). This genocide was composed by the Government of Sudan and the Janjaweed who targeted the black Africans‚ with “…between 300‚000 and 400‚000 people have been killed outright and/or perished as a result of “genocide by attrition (meaning with starvation‚ dehydration‚ unattended injuries‚ and the purposeful
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organization of genocide‚ where groups of civilians who trained for the inevitable massacre‚ and other Hutus were given machetes and encouraged to kill the Tutsi. Polarization occurred when Hutu extremists killed other Hutus who sympathized with the Tutsi. Preparation took place when the Tutsi population was forced to go to desolate lands and were starved. And extermination had begun take place when the trained civilians began massacring the Tutsi. Finally‚ denial occurred when the genocide ended and the
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Genocide * Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part * Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group: Why? * There has been considerable research on why a perpetrator should want to destroy a group or‚ if not destroy the group as such‚ murder people because of their group membership. Motives are often complex and intertwined‚ but one can usually pull out among the mix a major motive.
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To start off‚ “Genocide” is categorized as the action of exterminating a certain ethnicity‚ race‚ and or religion. In Sudan‚ the government and the Janjaweed have classified anyone that gets in their way a problem thus‚ making them victims. The 8 Stages of genocide explain the steps taken to classify the problems Darfur as a genocide. It’s known that after a genocide takes place it’s hard for any economy to bounce back. The genocide taking place in Sudan‚ driven by the negligent government and an
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causing much tension‚ then genocide. A nationalist movement began among the Armenian community living within the Ottoman Empire; in consequence‚ in the 1890s the Ottomans ordered the killing of tens of thousands of Armenians. Despite all the evidence against them‚ such as photographs taken by Armin T. Wegner (The Forgotten) of the atrocities committed‚ and interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses; the modern Turkish government is still in denial that the Armenian Genocide
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