authority‚ last resort and proportionality could provide the international community with a legitimate basis for intervention‚ but‚ as we have seen in the last months‚ the obstacles to a just solution in Syria are abundant and the answers are far from easy[1]. 1. Might makes right? Morally‚ Syria‚ like Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s‚ can be seen as a classic case of just war. As Michael Walzer argues in his work on ethical warfare‚ Just and Unjust Wars‚ humanitarian interventions can be just
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Cambodian Genocide Dead bodies everywhere you turn. The smell of gunpowder‚ filth‚ and death choke your lungs. You wonder everyday whether it will be your last. All your body feels is pain; all your heart feels is emptiness. One might think this is how life was for Jews during the Jewish Holocaust. In reality‚ this is how life was for many Cambodians during the reign of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979. This event‚ known to many as the Cambodian genocide‚ left a profound mark on the world around us
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Armenian Massacres should be considered genocide. More specifically‚ historians argue if the Armenian Massacres were precipitated by Turkish nationalism‚ Armenian rebellion‚ or Western and Russian influence. There are two main opposing views in this argument of genocide‚ the Western view and the Turkish view. The West views these massacres as a genocide carried out by the Ottoman and Turkish governments. Turks argue that these massacres should not be considered genocide and that these massacres were not
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The Rwandan Genocide was a massacre of an estimated 800‚000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus over a 100-day period in 1994. The genocide was an example of ethnic cleansing‚ as the Hutu group attempted to kill or displace Rwanda ’s Tutsi minority. Before the European occupation of Rwanda‚ the Tutsis and Hutus lived different lifestyles. Tutsis and Hutus were separate ethnic groups that lived peacefully with no discrimination or clashes between the groups. After World War 1‚ Belgium overtook Rwanda
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Rwandan Genocide "Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation." (Genocide) Introduction "In 1994 Rwanda experienced the worst genocide in modern times. The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of the Tutsis by the Hutus that took place in 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda. It is considered the most organized genocide of the 20th century. Over the course of approximately 100 days (from the assassination
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over the world‚ the atrocious crime of Genocide has been committed numerous times. It is the intentional destruction‚ in whole or part‚ of a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or religious group. The most famous example of this is the Holocaust; over six million Jews were slaughtered. Shortly after this tragedy‚ many provisions and laws were put into action in hopes of preventing another mass killing. These laws have not created much‚ as the recent Rwandan Genocide took the lives of many innocent people
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Genocide: For the Dead and Living We Must Bear Witness Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: Everyone has the right to life‚ liberty and security of person. The right to life seems like the most basic right; a person is born‚ and they have the right to breathe air‚ drink water‚ and make any other necessary decisions to live. However‚ every now and then someone (or a group of people) decides that a person‚ or an entire race‚ does not deserve to live. Genocide‚ the purposeful
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Rwanda Genocide Throughout modern history there have been numerous attempts to kill and control specific targeted populations for various political‚ social‚ economic‚ and cultural reasons. This is known as modern day genocide. Although many may have suffered at the hands of these more powerful‚ wealthy genocides. Few small‚ isolated countries like Rwanda were nearly eradiated through intentional and government sponsored genocides. In 1994 Rwanda was divided into three groups: Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ and
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Genocide in Bosnia By the End of the Cold war the world had already seen the end of hundreds of wars and countless violations of human rights. With witnessing‚ these events substantial progress had been made to defining what human rights are and what constitutes a violation to human rights. The first of theses inalienable human rights being the biblical right to life. Several Non- governmental organizations dedicate their time and energy to maintaining a close watch over the world to report on
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In 1994 a genocide occurred in Rewanda that lasted for 100 days in its entirety. This event was one of the most devastating moments to hit the world. On April 5‚ 1994 a plane carrying the president of Rewanda‚ Juvenal Habyarimana‚ and the president of Burundian‚ crashed. This event started the tragedy. The uprising was against the Tutsi and Hutu people and spanned the entire country. It took only a few hours for the rebels to take over the capital of Kigali and the massacre continued until
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