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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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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The lost of life is always a tragedy in our history and even worse is the lost of life during a genocide. Many know about the Holocaust and the six million Jews that were killed because the Nazis’ thought that they were a superior race to the Jews‚ but another genocide is the Bosnian Genocide. The Bosnian Genocide was a tragic time period where the attackers the Bosnian Serbs killed thousands of Bosnian Muslims that lived in Siberia. The Serbs thought that they were a superior race and that the Bosnian
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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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Extended Essay in History World War II and the Bosnian Genocide of 1992-1995 Research Question: To what extent did the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia influence the Bosnian Genocide of 1992-1995? Name: Topias Hokkanen Candidate number: 03939051 Session: May 2012 School: Coppell High School Supervisor: Michael Cook Word count: 3‚847 Abstract This extended essay deals with the Bosnian Genocide from 1992-1995‚ where the Bosnian Serb army committed various
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Genocide in Bosnia The Bosnian genocide is often referred to as the hidden genocide‚ yet it had catastrophic effects on humanity. Over 100‚000 people were killed and it displaced millions of people. The genocide occurred between 1992 and 1995. The Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was made up of six nations under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito. Once Tito passed away in 1990‚ there was a power vacuum‚ and politicians began a nationalistic campaign pitting Serbs‚ Croats and Bosniaks against
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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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Genocide‚ the stripping if a culture‚ the breaking of people’s spirits‚ missing and unreported deaths of children‚ over 105 missing women (Amnesty International‚ 2015)‚ third world living conditions‚ lack of clean drinking water‚ and nearly one quarter of incarceration rates compromising a specific group (Government of Canada & Statistics Canada‚ 2015). These would commonly be points associated with a third world country under extreme oppression and led by a dictatorship. However‚ these are all instances
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