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    Joseph Stalin Genocide

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    Joseph Stalin’s Genocide: 50 Million Deaths From 1919 to 1953 when Stalin died about 50 million lives were taken in the Gulags of Russia (“Videofact”). In total there were 53 Gulags and 423 labor camps (“Gulag”).  Stalin was considered one of the most feared dictators because of his secret police and the Gulags. During a series of interviews in 1996‚ a Soviet veteran who lived in Minsk claimed to have seen a U.S. POW in May or June 1953. The POW was a Korean War F-86D pilot whose plane had been

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    village during the famine‚ in the war years – 135 souls” (Kuryliw‚ p. 2). This is how Antonina Meleshchenko remembers the Holodomor‚ or the Ukrainian genocide famine. This famine took place between 1932 and 1933 in a country in Europe called Ukraine. Although many survivors wish not to remember‚ this event needs to be recognized. The Ukrainian genocide famine killed hundreds of thousands of people; this tragic incident occurred because Stalin wanted to convert the world to communism. After 250

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    Genocide Vs Holocaust

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    The words Genocide and the Holocaust both describe a grand massacre done with the intention of exterminating an entire race or people. Genocide is more specifically the “systematic destruction of a certain people based on their race‚ religion‚ or citizenship.” (Kumar‚ 2018) This destruction can take place by isolating people‚ enforcing birth control on women‚ or trying to ‘tame a bunch of savages’. Holocaust is originally a Greek word‚ meaning‚ ‘whole burnt.’ Holocaust was first used to describe

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    Genocide in Sri Lanka

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    Genocide in Sri Lanka To quote the late Chinese politician Mao Tse-Tung a‚ “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.” Genocide; is the deliberate and systematic destruction‚ in whole or in part‚ of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or national group. But why do we participate in a matter that can only have a negative outcome? The ongoing struggle can be related to the religious‚ political and the European intervention to Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka a small island that lies

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    Bosnian Genocide in 1995 Outline Plan Bosnian Genocide was a terrible act of murder which started when Muslims and Croats voted for independence in referendum that was boycotted by Serbs In 1992.When the European Union recognized Bosnian’s independence the war broke out and Serb’s occupied the country. I chose to do my Research about this while studying The Rwanda Genocide in 1994. I discovered that Rwanda wasn’t the only genocide that happened in the past and I really wanted to learn something

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    The Rwandan Genocide July 11‚ 2009 The Rwandan genocide is argued to be one which stands out from all other genocides in the 20th century. Howard Adelman‚ a theorist and professor emeritus from York University argues that the Rwandan genocide stands out from any other genocide‚ because it could have been prevented (Adelman‚ 2005). The essay aims to critically evaluate the Rwanda genocide by asking ‘who and why’‚ to accurately point out the cause of the genocide. There have being many debates

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    Jewish People Genocide

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    Genocide of the Jewish People In 1939‚ WWⅡbegins when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland‚ causing six million Jewish people to fear for their lives. This fear began when all citizens had to complete a Census about their race‚ religion‚and ancestry. Second‚ all people had to carry ID cards‚ and the Jewish people had to wear the Star of David. Third‚ Germany passed the Nuremberg Race laws‚ which took away all Jewish rights‚ even to the point where they were sent to ghettos. Fourth‚ the Jewish people were

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    Native Youth Genocide

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    Genocide‚ the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national‚ racial‚ political‚ or cultural group (Dictionary). This is a topic that is discussed many times in class as it was often the main goal settlers of North America were trying to accomplish. There were many methods of genocide white settlers committed‚ one in particular was boarding schools. Richard Henry Pratt viewed the Natives as people‚ and had good intentions for them. Although he may have had good intentions they weren’t always

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    Bergen's War And Genocide

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    How was an atrocity like the Holocaust able to occur? This is a question many historians grapple with. In Doris Bergen’s book‚ “War and Genocide‚” she explains how the Holocaust happened in terms of how a house burns down. “Three things are required‚” she writes; kindling‚ a spark to start the fire‚ and complying weather. In terms of the Holocaust‚ these three factors are the deeply seeded antisemitism‚ Hitler and Nazism‚ and a public of compliant bystanders and collaborators. Most historians agree

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    Rwandan genocide. It was the fastest‚ most efficient killing spree of the twentieth century. My thesis is that the international community utterly failed to prevent and stop this atrocity. I will focus on numerous interconnected aspects that led to international inaction and also on the main actors‚ Belgium‚ the United Nations Secretariat‚ the United States and France‚ that knew that there was genocide underway in Rwanda - therefore‚ they had a responsibility to prevent and stop the genocide‚ but lacked

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