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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The Holodomor In 1932 and 1933‚ Ukraine took part in one of the biggest genocides the world has ever seen. Although unlike the Holocaust‚ it never really got much exposure due to the Soviet Union’s tactics of hiding this disaster. The Soviet Union made sure no foreign journalists were able to enter the country‚ although they did allow a few communist journalists to view what was happening. These communist journalists wrote lies saying that they didn’t see any evidence of the Ukrainian people
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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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Armenia Genocide Genocide is the organized killing of a group of people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the most savage and barbaric episode in the history of the Armenian people. There were several main reasons the Turks carried out the genocide. Differences in the Armenian and Turkish culture‚ the continued conflict between the Armenians and the Turks‚ and the beginning of World War I led the Turks to kill over
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The genocide in Rwanda is arguably one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. In 100 days approximately 800‚000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in brutal waves of violence. Despite this‚ the international community stood by and did nothing. There have been many arguments made over just why this was‚ ranging from ignorance of the situation‚ apathy towards peacekeeping missions‚ or simply having more pressing issues than a tiny state in Central Africa. This essay will examine why
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The Twentieth Century has had multiple cases of genocides and ethnic cleansing.The most infamous case of this would be unanimously stated as the Holocaust‚ but the Armenian Genocide‚ also known as the Forgotten Genocide was the precursor to the events initiated by the Nazis. The relative ignorance to the events that happened just a century ago begs the question‚ Does the wartime environment allow for human rights to be violated ? Firstly; however‚ who are the Armenians and why were they persecuted
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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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