4.5 The Century’s First Genocide 1. What can be learned from Graffam’s letter about the motives of those who attacked the Armenians? From Graffam’s letter‚ it can be deduced that the people who attacked the Armenians had all bad motives‚ based on hate and discrimination. They wanted to send them away to be executed and taken to prisons or other locations. The attackers also wanted to steal the belongings of the Armenians and convinced the people that since they were going to die anyway‚ it was
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Genocide and Cruelty Throughout history people have taken actions which show us that some people are cruel and participate in outrageous acts. We can go back and look at the United States and their use of slaves from Africa. In Germany‚ less then 100 years ago‚ Adolf Hitler and the Nazis orchestrated one of the most hateful and dehumanizing acts with their concentration camps with the killings of millions of Jews‚ Gypsies‚ gays and others. Following these devastating acts the United Nations
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already being committed in Rwanda. Belgian higher ups in Rwanda had required the civilians of the country to wear tags declaring their ethnicity‚ separating Tutsi and Hutu. Tensions between the two main ethnic groups had continued to grow slowly as the Rwandan Patriotic Front had been at constant war with the Hutu government. The fuse blew when the plane of Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down while returning from a peace conference. From that point on the Hutus waged a genocidal campaign against
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1918‚ after the first world war. The capital is Belgrade. This country is very diverse with all the people and their different ethnicities. These multiple ethnic groups caused many problems for the country not long ago. Problems like the Bosnian Genocide in the 1990s. They tried to get rid of the "different" people‚ the ones that could have been the only reason for problems in the country. From 1992 to 1995 one of the largest massacres in the world took place‚ the Bosnian War. It was an international
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How Does facing death and genocide affect people’s perception of God? Some people become much closer to God‚ awaiting salvation. Meanwhile others realize that they are alone and that no benevolent being would allow such violent acts to happen. This one most accurately represents Elie Wiesel. Ellie was a jew raised in transylvania who wrote about his story going through the daily life at extermination camps with his father during the second World War in his novel‚ Night. For Elie‚ faith was a huge
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Never Forget the Genocides Although the Holocaust ended in 1944 with the deaths of millions‚ the genocide in Darfur claimed the lives of 400‚000 people and displaced over 2‚500‚000 in 2003 and is still going on to this day (Document G). With so many lives lost in the tragic genocides people wonder if there is anything that can be done to prevent more from occurring. The basic concept of genocide developed in 1915 with the Armenian Genocide (Document H). In 1944 the term genocide was formed based
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decades of Hutu rule‚ under which the Tutsi faced extreme discrimination and bursts of extermination. This continual struggle between groups‚ and the assassination of both Rwanda’s and Burundi’s presidents‚ sparked violence and ‘primed the pump’ for genocide. Under the command of the Belgian government‚ the Tutsi lead privileged lives while the Hutu faced widespread discrimination. As soon as the Hutu government took over Rwanda following their independence from Belgium‚ they immediately flipped the
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Global Reaction: Throughout the duration of the genocide‚ the Western Governments looked upon the purge and mass killings as a victory over Communism. Occurring at the height of the Cold War between Communist nations and 1st world countries‚ the presence of the Indonesian massacres in the media was heavily monitored‚ and most Journalists were unable to enter Indonesian territories. Instead‚ they were forced to rely upon the official statements made by the Western Governments. In fact‚ the British
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Transgender Thesis statement: Transgender deserves equal rights. Introduction: Everyone is qualified to have equality. It is something that we all know and agree with. No one likes to be discriminated and be treated lower by the society especially if it is because of race‚ religion and gender. Everyone has a gender; it is a thing that affects us daily whether it is on how we act and look every day. Today‚ most of the countries clarify gender base on the physical and genetic sexuality
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Genocides are atrocious acts of terror‚ usually initiated by some irrational thought or behaviors‚ which end up with far too many lives of men‚ women‚ and children of all ages being killed senselessly. These absurd acts of horror happen far too often in the history of the human race‚ with some of the most notable genocides being the Holocaust‚ which happened in the European nation of Germany. A far more recent genocide that took place in a different part of the European continent is known as the
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