Essays on Genocide

Armenian Genocide as an Act of Eliminationism

Introduction The word genocide refers to the destruction of a nation or a particular ethnic group. The word is coined from Greek words ‘genos’ and ‘cide’. Genos means race or tribe while cide means killing. A genocide is not always the immediate destruction of a nation or tribe except when it is done by the mass killing of the members of a nation or tribe. Rather genocides signify a gradual coordinated plan composed of different actions aimed at destroying the essential foundations of a group with the aim of annihilating the group. The goals of such a plan would ...

Literature Review

This section review literature on the responsibility of Western Powers on Civil Wars as well as Rebellion within Eastern and Central Africa. From the reviewed materials, it is evident that the style of Western administration on the African continent left African countries unprepared economically as well as politically for independence. For that reason, it undermined the state of security within most countries from their start of self-governance. The influence of Europe within Africa has contributed significantly in establishing conditions within many countries for rebellion and civil conflict to take place. The Western powers treat African states as strategic economic ...

Introduction

Downplaying and romanticizing of history Evident in works of fiction like "Gone With the Winds" Distortion of History History is sometimes distorted to serve certain goals and interests An example is the Turkish authorities' denial of the Armenian genocide This is an abuse of human rights to memory and dignity Critical History Critical history attempts to recast distorted history Including overlooked history like The Moors' is the main objective of critical history Foucault theorized the idea of critical history Conclusion It is important for people to understand history Critical history gives people the hope of saving both the present ...

Introduction

The colonization of America was a very violent chapter in American history and had left a scar that is still felt by many Native Americans to this day. Colonization by the very nature of it being a overtaking of land of one group by another is inherently violent as the history of the world’s colonization continues to this day. Since the violence is not a scare that can be removed it is appropriate to spend time measuring the effectiveness of it.

The Effects Today

There is no denying when one looks at the severity of the colonization of America that the ...

The story of mankind is created every day, but it is told through history. It is only when he looks back, that he realizes how far he has come. History has been instrumental in shaping the present and most likely the future of humanity. One of the greatest flaws associated with history is its inaccuracy. The inaccuracy is not, however, because of lack of information but because of the prejudice and perspectives that are captured by most historians (Woolford, Andrew, Jeff, and Alexander 43). Information is abundant; the only problem is the indifference that people show to the available ...

War refers to an activity characterized by the persistence of violent conflict involving excess aggression, increased social disorder, and high incidences of mortality. It often occurs when different groups struggle to alter the social, political, or economic control and inequality sustained by either group from different ethnic, tribal, religious, or racial backgrounds (Sullivan 2008). Peace, on the other hand, exists in situations where there is no discord and characterized by the absence of fear, hostility, and violence from opposing groups. Various dimensions of conflict and peace, especially in developing nations, heavily influence the distribution of foreign aid from developed ...

The Armenian Genocide is one of the vigorously contested incidents of mass murder in the 20th Century. The Armenian Genocide is alleged to have been the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of the minority Armenian population. This occurred in the historic homeland of the Armenians which is within the territory of present-day Turkey. In spite of the many claims, the Turkish government denies it was a genocide. They claim it was a war which involved the mass killing of Ottoman citizens including Muslims and Ottomans. The Turkish government also claims that the number of Armenians who died in the ...

JT It’s true that human rights violations persist in spite of stringent legal safeguards. However, extension of the IHRL beyond the state risks placing the responsibility on a number of parties that cannot be pinned down, and therefore making enforcement impossible. It helps to note that the problem has never been the lack of technical legal protections for human rights; rather, the practical difficulties of enforcing such protections. Legal mechanisms such as the R2P for instance, have been ineffective, in part because countries pursuing their own interests (and loss of appetite by countries such as the US to ...

Colonialism

Although many countries attempted to colonize Africa since ancient times, the most impactful colonialization occurred by European countries. European colonization occurred in Africa in the late nineteenth century. Colonialization was a regulated governmental controlling machine. Countries such as Great Britain, France, Portugal and Belgium colonized separate areas of Africa using distinctive techniques. These countries created states within the continent of Africa and attempted to rule indirectly, paternalise assimilate or exploit Africans which lead to a legacy preventing growth. With varying types of colonization occurring throughout Africa, it has been difficult for Africa to escape the periphery.

The Colonizers

The British colonists ...

Social Conditioning, Obedience, and the Rwandan Genocide

1. While genocide is generally something that we conceive of as ordered and carried out primarily by state authorities with the compliance of citizens, it was shocking to learn that in the Rwandan genocide, although an extremist militia group was responsible for masterminding the genocide, many individuals at many levels from government officials to regular citizens, actively participated in the killings. It was sickening to watch how nauseatingly violent regular people could be towards other human beings, let alone former acquaintances and friends. Given the fact that genocide continues to this day (Darfur), Burger’s research into obedience remains ...

The Eugenics Movement

Davenport, Charles & Laughlin, Harry H. (1927). Eugenics Seeks to Improve the Natural, Physical, Mental and Tempermental Qualities of the Human Family. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved from http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/image_header.pl?id=248&printable=1&detailed=0

This document is an overview of the intentions of the early American eugenics movement from the point of view of the Director and Assistant Director of the program in 1927. Although the front page of the document claims that humans cannot be used in scientific experiment, the rest of the document details the ways America should assess and promote things such as “what matings are fittest for society ...

How genocide affected the relationship between the Maya and the Guatemalan government. How would they react to the offer of military assistance to assist them in recovering from the Hurricane Stan?

The two articles give a clear and detailed picture of the effects of genocide. How the Maya community perceptions towards the Guatemalan government was distorted. The Guatemalan army, according to the articles, conducted all inhuman activities that you can imagine off, with the intention of implanting fear to the people. The military adopted harmful and dangerous techniques. They crushed communities, resulting to death of more than 200,000 ...

This essay will be an article review of Benjamin Madley’s “California’s Yuki Indians: Defining Genocide in Native American History.” Benjamin Madley is an Assistant Professor of History at UCLA and specializes in Native American’s, the American West, and Genocide in World History. This article, from the first sentence to the last, is quite absorbing and readable.

1) The author’s main purpose in writing this essay is to attempt to define whether or not the killing of California’s Yuki Indian Tribe constitutes genocide. His guideline, or “rubric,” for judgment comes from the 1948 United Nations ...

As a general rule, top-level answers should be a minimum of one paragraph of moderate length. Expect this to be a minimum of 150 words, usually requiring 10 or more sentences. Top-level posts less than 150 words will not be considered for full credit. Opinions are great and should be included! However, when possible, please support any opinion in the discussion with factual information or theory of substantial weight taken from some quality source or sources. For these top-posts you should avoid more than two sentences of direct quotes from any source. For the remainder of the post you should include a combination ...

http://www.wfp.org/countries/rwanda/overview Rwanda is a low income and least developed country ranking 166 out of 187 countries. This research is based on the study by the UNDP human development index. According to the comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis, there is an outstanding malnutrition level in Rwanda. For instance, chronic malnutrition among the children under age of 5 years is as high as 43%. However, there is an improvement from the previous rate which rated around 512%.

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/ Rwanda is one among the countries that have registered substantial improvements in the current fight against malnutrition and hunger. This is a ...

In order to examine the colony’s influence on the third Reich the author contextualizes it within the scope of racism and violence of other colonial regimes in Africa. Likewise, the article explores how German South West Africa colonial policies such as the acquisition of Lebensraum, treating colonized as inhuman and legally institutionalizing racism were used by the Nazis. The article examines how genocidal style, annihilation war and the use of concentration camps were altered across time and adopted. The article also explores how Hermann Goring and Eugen Fischer, among others served as human conduits in order to facilitate ...

1) Date/Duration of chapter:

Chapter 1 is an examination of the encounters between Europeans and Indians during the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Most of the discussion is about Christopher Columbus and the Spanish who encountered Indians in the Caribbean beginning in the late fifteenth century. Zinn wrote about issues such as how history has been presented over the years. Additionally, he discussed how Columbus’ treatment of the Arawak is not unique. The history is comparable to Andrew Jackson and the Cherokees, Hernando Cortes and the Aztecs, the English colonists in America and the Powhatans, etc. Zinn’s style of history telling ...

1. Outline the categories of violence as described by Jamil Salmi.

According to Salmi, the phenomenon of violence has many characteristics, with particular causes per characteristic and with particular causational agents per cause. Violence also exists in several forms, including direct violence, indirect violence, repressive violence, and alienating violence.

Direct violence is characterized by any physical, in-person act causing intended harm. In this category would be included A) any act resulting in death (homicide, genocide, infanticide); and B) any “coercive or brutal” (Module 6, 44) at threatening or resulting in physical or psychological damage or suffering—including rape, spousal abuse, political imprisonment, for example.

Indirect violence is characterized by ...

Rudolf Hoess, who should not be confused with Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s Deputy Fuehrer who flew to England in 1941, was a career S.S. officer whose memoirs are one of the most important primary sources about the Holocaust. No other camp commander produced an autobiography or wrote so extensively about his career, and none occupied a more important position in the machinery of extermination. Hoess introduced Zyklon-B (Cyclone-B) gas to Auschwitz in 1941, mainly because he thought it would be the most efficient method of mass killing, and his camp became the largest ‘customer’ for this cyanide gas, which had ...

In "Some Moral Minima," Lenn Goodman argues that there are certain things that are simply wrong. Do you think Goodman is right? Using specific examples, explore the challenges Goodman presents to relativism. Determine whether you think there are such universal moral requirements, and defend your answer in a well-argued three-page paper.

Lenn Goodman is correct that by modern legal and ethical standards, certain actions like murder, rape, genocide, wars of aggression, use of weapons of mass destruction, and slavery are always wrong. To be sure, they were widely practiced in the past and still exist in the present, ...

A close analysis of the current videos depict the manner in which they effectively connect with the message the videos are passing a cross. The videos on colonial history and genocide in Rwanda focus on historical injustices that led elicited the occurrence of the Rwandan Genocide, which claimed thousands of lives. The two videos connect in that they dwell on the fact that historical events do not occur spontaneously, but are precipitated by certain factors, which are known. In a nutshell, a person who has not heard of the Rwandan Genocide would easily comprehend with all what happened in the genocide by ...

Field Trip Reflection Paper

What Did You See? Museum of Tolerance includes many of the interesting events, special exhibitions, and distinctive programs that bring the history to life and parity it to current events. The field trip had a great reflection for me to gain a lot of information from different section it was beautifully organized which motivate my desire to learn more and get enough information. I have been in different sections the main exhibit was the holocaust section, which exhibit a sound and light guided presentations that led me back to in the time to be witnesses to events in Nazi- dominant Europe ...

Never again?

It is a deep wound of the heart of humanity. “Most people see genocide as a crime of vast scale this term loses the sense of the individual human tragedy that takes place countless times as something that would never happen here.” (“Never again”) The movie “Indian School: Stories of Survival” depicts the events of genocide of Indians, aborigines of Northern America. "Indian War" - each of us have heard these words. In the minds of immediately gets familiar from westerns and other adventure picture: train migrants crossing the vast prairie, Indians attacked. Savages on horseback, dressed in colorful national ...

Counterfactual History: What Ifs of the Gallipoli Campaign

Introduction Although counterfactual history is concerned with what didn’t happen, it acts as a manifestation of what did. Without a doubt, counterfactual history challenges the traditional academic ways of thinking with regards to risk management in the historical analysis. It explicitly inflates the range of plausible explanations by focusing on the number of possible outcomes. In doing so, there is a threat that a multiplicity of chaotic perspectives, each facilitated by chance and contingency might open up. In the case of the Gallipoli Campaign, the following questions may be asked if the Ottomans did not win at Gallipoli:

Would the Republic of Turkey still have been established?

Would the Russian ...

Human rights are not only inalienable, but also universal. The failure of the international community to intervene has resulted in the brutal violations of these rights in multiple states, perhaps best underscored by the on-going conflict and humanitarian crisis in Darfur (United Nations 1; UNICEF 1). Against the background of the Darfur crisis, this paper sets forth the international norms/law on humanitarian intervention, as well as uses international relations theories to determine the legitimacy of intervention in Darfur. It asserts that genocide and other grave (and widespread) crimes against humanity in the region are extreme injustices that threaten humanity ...

Introduction

In the film Monsters to Destroy: Manifest Destiny, United States of America's (USA) policy has been discussed after the end of the Cold War in 1991 and disintegration of the Soviet Union. After the Soviet Union had broken, USA was the only super power in the world, with no major enemy. The film discusses the Manifest Destiny and its major influence on the decision of the USA. Manifest Destiny refers to a popular American belief, coined by John O’Sullivan in 1845, which implies that the Americans have a God-given right to expand across land and regions in order to ...

In his article “Fierce Debate Divides Scholars of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide”, Jeffrey Sharlet presents a well-directed and relevant example of how sharp social problem can cause a number of misunderstandings and disputes among the researchers of this problem. At the same time, by this the author of the article emphasizes the complexity and ambiguity of the issue of Rwandan Genocide in 1994 as well. Sharlet states: “The steps by which Rwanda proceeded from such hope to such horror are many and complex Scholars from a range of disciplines and political backgrounds have all been trying to make that basic point in ...

After reading Boubacar Boris Diop’s novel Murambi, The Book of Bones I have come closer to understanding the extent of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Initially I had some hesitations on the nature and truthfulness of the issues that the author would reveal since he is not Rwandese or was not a victim of the Genocide. Diop is a Senegalese journalist and novelist. However, a reading of his book confirms of it as a witness to the genocide. The book has ingrained in me the extent of brutality of the genocide. I can visualize the deep emotional scars left in the hearts ...

On September 13, 2007 the United Nations (UN) embraced an international instrument entitled the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Consisting of 46 articles, this document was created to protect and promote the rights of the worlds’ indigenous populations that were not defended in other human rights legislation (University of British Columbia, indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca). James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, claims this document is unparalleled in its scope and breadth. Therefore, this paper will discuss the history and reasoning behind the declaration’s creation, why it was necessary to adopt ...

Genocides start because of the conflict between people of same race or religion attempting to displace the different race or religion. Conflicting interests between individuals from different race or religion can result to genocides. In the 20th century, over 250 million people have lost their lives due to genocides. Millions of people are left at risk of the exposure due to increased incidences of mass violence. Data and knowledge that indicates the long-term mental health effects that come with the exposure to the genocide remains scattered. Genocides have led to mass violence and displacement of people since it stirs ...

Film Analysis Paper: Hotel Rwanda (2004) Part 1: Select a film that deals with a topic from contemporary history (roughly the period from 1900-2008). It should be a narrative/feature film. Please do not select a documentary. The film can be recent (made within the last ten years) or something older (i.e. black & white). It can be American-made film or a foreign film. The only guideline is that it must primarily tell a story set in the past. The Rwandan genocide between the Hutus and Tutsis was a particular event in history that has marked not only the nation it affected but the whole world ...

Abstract

There have been times during which humans have been up against each other. Humans are known to be competitive with each other, a fact that is both advantageous and disadvantageous. An advantage of the fact is that, in terms of economy, the competitive nature of human beings has helped countries move forward and be able to offer their citizens with all that they need. It, however, becomes a disadvantage when greed sets in. There are times when some people feel that they are not complete when they are not ahead of others. This is in most cases reflected in terms of ...

World War II is up to today considered the largest and the worst war to ever happen in history. It started in 1939 from Europe and ended in 1945, spreading to almost all parts of the world and leaving about 70 million people dead. The figure included men, women, soldiers, children and civilians who died mainly due to illnesses, starvation and bomb attacks. The WW2 involved two opposing military alliances, the Axis and the Allies, formed from great nations that participated in the war. Axis was the alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy where as Allies alliance was between ...

The beginning of the 20th century was characterized by the initiation of scientific development and progress. The traces of this development were visible in the different parts of Europe, broadly the Western sphere of Europe. The aims set forth against this scientific development were to develop a world that is based on progress and prosperity where there would be justice and equal opportunities for every individual. However the sequence of the progress was marred by the wars that came about in the form of World War One and World War Two. The two in their own respective capacity changed the ...

Racism started early in the sixteenth century with many Africans falling victim to the menace due to the economic situation in Africa. The documentary, A History of Racism (BBC) analyzes the colonial developments in the world from various perspectives. The main idea in the documentary tackles racism and themes about racism. Most victims in the documentary hailed from Africa and Asia, but Africans took a larger share. The documentary utilizes scholarly sources to show the evolution of racism in the past 500 years and the changing relationship between Africa, Europe, and America. Furthermore, the documentary review racial discrimination consistently showing ...

Introduction:

Christopher Columbus was given credit as the first man to discover America. The historical books in schools misled the children by referring to Columbus as the first man to discover America. This statement was false because even Columbus himself never claimed to have gone to North America. The first people to discover America were the natives themselves, but Christopher Columbus got credit that he never deserved. History also shows that other explorers like Leif visited and established settlements I the New Found Canada in 998 while Christopher Columbus visited the place in 1492.This, therefore, eliminates this myth that Columbus ...

Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire is a well known Canadian humanitarian, Senator and author of two books along with being a retired General. The Lieutenant-General worked during 1993 till 1994 as the Force Commander in UNAMIR, the peace keeping force organized by United Nations in Rwanda against the known extremists of Hutu against the moderate people of Tutsis and Hutu (Romeo Dallaire a, 2014). Romeo Dallaire has founded The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative along with being a Senior Member at the Montreal Institute’s Department of Genocide and Human Rights Studies. His achievements also include that he is also the Co-Director of the Project ...

Hotel Rwanda is the portrayal of a violent disagreement between the radical nationalist Hutus, who waged war on the Tutsis. The Tutsis were considered a minority but had still been granted power over the area by the Belgian colonies when they departed. The film follows this disagreement in power and how it brings about discriminations and prejudice, eventually leading to ruthless acts of violence such as genocidal massacres. The film also follows one man, Paul Rusesabagina. He is a Hutu and a successful hotel manager who is doing well for himself and his family. His wife, Tatiana, is a Tutsi. She spends parts of ...

Philosophy

The Divine Command Theory purports that a particular act becomes either moral or not (immoral) on no other basis other than God has commanded that it be done or forbids us from doing that particular act. According to this theory, an action is only made wrong by the fact that God Himself prohibits it’s doing. As seen in the definition, whatever it is that God commands automatically becomes the basic standard of morality, and there exist no other moral values other than what God prescribes for man. The belief that there is no limit whatsoever as to what ...

Executive summary

Headquartered in Calgary, Canada Talisman Energy develops, produces and markets petroleum and natural gas globally. Being one Canada largest independent oil and gas company, its existence commenced in 1992 after British Petroleum (now BP) sold its subsidiary in Canada. Talisman Energy primary regions of operation were mainly in North America, North Sea, and South East Asia. The company achieved a phenomenal growth rate due to several key mergers and acquisitions that are apparent in its large and diverse number of holdings. In 2008, Talisman Energy listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The ...

Though not always elitist, movies are excellent at reflecting the reality and human history, just as poetry and prose are. The movie industry was being developed over the 20th century while the human civilization was being shaken by major military collisions, be they regional or conflicts of world proportions. There was no way the movie industry could sit sluggish in the circumstances, with film directors addressing the most vital social issues of the day. Genocide is one of grimmest crimes committed during the conflicts. Atrocious was the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Jews in Nazi Germany – ...

The American movies of the 2000s have been primarily dedicated to such important national and international issues as racism, gun control, poverty, drug abuse and crimes connected with it, as well as ambiguity and, as a result, ineffectiveness of national and international policy that is supposed to solve these and many other social problems. Among the most prominent movies of the decade are the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Traffic, 2004 Paul Haggis film Crash and 2004 Terry George movie Hotel Rwanda. All three movies are based on completely different stories, but share similar tension born out of the social problems ...

Violations of Peremptory Norms committed by Syria

Abstract The unrest in Iraq and Egypt in early 2011, as well as the outbreak of a full-blown civil war in Syria later that same year, has led to an intricate web of interstate security dynamics. The civil war in Syria has extended unabated, killing more than 100,000 people and displacing millions more. Western military intervention with air strikes on the Assad regime may get forestalled with a possible UN-backed plan to counteract Syria's chemical arms stockpiles. The essay looks into the dishonor of the Peremptory Norms from the beginning of the crisis until now. The Peremptory Norms are ...

Jonathan Glover is an English philosopher and ethicist. He went to college at Tonbridge School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. For thirty years, he was a professor of philosophy at New College, Oxford, and currently teaches ethics at London’s Kings College. Glover is also a research fellow at the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in the United States. Born in 1941, Glover writes books and teacher. His “working life consists of thinking, reading, writing and talking about philosophy. Talking includes teaching, which involves listening as well. I write mainly books, with only a few articles” (Glover). In 1989 ...

Reflection on Hotel Rwanda

Film and cinema production has been recently in the rise having improved technology over the years. This has been one of the trending factors in the music industry. Movie production in the 19th century was low and due to the lack of efficient technology to aid in production of films. Many individuals watch films with the main aim of getting entertained but today there are films which are considered to be educative, provide warning, as well as reflecting on what is trending in the society. This paper would focus and look at the film Hotel Rwanda. The film ...

World War II - Discussion Board

In Chapter 6, A People’s War, I found an interesting fact revealed by Howard Zinn that the United States is responsible for fighting a war a people’s war. The United States is not following the rules and values and this is the reason for war. Further, it is also an an interesting fact in Chapter 6 that in the World War II, the United States got the support from the racist elite for their own economic motives. The actions of the United States were driven largely by the economic interests and racists, which were criticized, because Hitler wanted to ...

After the World War II, two nations became extremely notorious in both crimes of genocide and torture: Japan and Germany. Germany’s attempt to wipe out the Jews out of Germany was because of Hitler’s orders. Hitler believed that the Caucasians are the supreme races on Earth and should remain that way. He killed and captured the Jews and created a laboratory in Auschwitz; many German scientists carried out illegal experiments that lead to torture and death of many Jews. The same case also applies for Japan. The Rape of Nanjing in 1937 tells the story of the torture ...

Introduction

The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 meant that the countries that were formerly under its rule and control were now free. However, many of these countries that were formerly under the rule of the Soviet Union encountered great difficulties in reclaiming their national and independent identities. One of the countries that faced great difficulty was Yugoslavia. First the integrity of this country was hugely questioned. The nation functioned as an unstable assemblage of people of various ethnic groups. These include Croats, Serbs, and Bosnian Muslims. The country eventually split into various competing factions. Serbia and ...

. Making decisions in everyday life seems like an automatic process however there are a number of judgments, opinions and knowledge that is required before one has the ability to have the free will to make decisions. The following essay asks to give examples of how one uses various methods and concepts to critically assess situations and to form thoughts or to make judgements between perception and reality.

Creative and Critical Thinking

The Rwandan Civil War is an issue of public interest in which creative and critical thinking could have resulted in a better outcome. The Rwandan President Paul Kagame had been portrayed as the president ...

Sociological imagination connects an individual’s imagination to events and other people in the society. There are three key principles in sociological imagination; history, social structure and biography. Mills’ hypothesis states that people are able to understand themselves and the reality around them by linking their personal experience with structural and historical forces (Mitra&Sarabia, 2005). In this paper, I will correlate my personal experience from events that have happened around and how they have influenced my decisions. This concept needs to be applied carefully since it attempts to create a connection between public issues and my personal experience (Schudson, 2008). ...

1. The documentary explains what happened during the Rwandan Civil War. It questions Paul Kagame’s role as general of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) during the war and his presidency that has followed. He has been portrayed as the president who saved Rwanda from genocide and destruction particularly in the west. He has also been supported by former president’s Bill Clinton and Tony Blair who is an unpaid advisor of the President. Since his presidency academics have conducted research into the presidential plane crash that killed the outgoing president and started the genocide of Hutus in Rwanda ...

The discovery of the new world, romanticized by most as legendry tales on how select men beat the odds and went through great struggle to establish the first settlements. The author approaches this from a different point of view; we get a perspective based on historical accounts as well as insight on what the great explorers were thinking at the time. Since there were trade routes across Europe to Asia, a brave few set out to find their way across the pacific into the oblivion to find Asia by Sea. Columbus a native Italian from humble beginnings had convinced Spanish royalty that he ...

Introduction

Saddam Hussein was an Iraqi statesman and politician, president of Iraq (1979-2003), Prime Minister of Iraq (1979-1991 and 1994-2003), secretary-general of the Iraqi branch of the Baath Party, Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Marshal (1979). In 1980, he began a ruinous war with Iran, which lasted until 1988. During the war, Hussein's government implemented "Operation Anfal" against the Kurds, during which Iraqi forces used chemical weapons. In 1990, at the initiative of Hussein was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, to provoke a large-scale war in the Persian Gulf, in which Iraqi troops were driven out of Kuwait, and the country ...

ANALYSIS OF HOTEL RWANDA AND ITS CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE

After the independence of Rwanda from Belgium, chaos erupted between the two main tribes in Rwanda i.e. The Hutu and the Tutsi. Theresentment stemmed from the fact that the minority Tutsi who had been favored by the Belgium colonialist had been left a lot of wealth and controlled much of the land. The country was filled with ethnic tension which boiled over in 1994 when the country’s president Juvenal Habyarimana, who was a Hutu, was killed after his plane was shot down. The genocide that followed was one of the worst ever recorded in the history of mankind. The ...

Running for his Life

I believe that Michael Hall, the reporter of this story, is most impressed by the manner in which Gilbert escaped from death. Gilbert has an amazing story of his account of the Genocide, and the escape from the fire is the climax. It is impressive how he became a survivor, and the reader cannot help but feel inspired. From the account of jumping through the window and running while, on fire, it is clear that Gilbert was meant to live through the experience. Michael reports, “He jumped.his back was on fire, his legs were smoking, and his feet were raw ...

Introduction

Humanitarian intervention as a concept can be traced back to the seventeenth century. This is the time when the foundations for the contemporary internationally recognized system of sovereignty of states and the principle that such sovereign states have control over all the matters within their borders was established. Since them, the concept has been reformed to enable the international community through the United Nations to protect citizens within sovereign states from human rights abuse, civil wars, ethnic cleansing and political abuse (Piereson, 2013). Although the United Nations charter does not allow the intervention in sovereign states, various humanitarian crises since ...

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Today, it seems the world is known as the global village because of the advancement of technology that keeps people in different nationalities to mingle. The internet made a drastic change not only to peoples’ relationships but even to the world of trade and business. People can already wire money from the other side of the world to another. Despite this, there are things that are not changing and this includes the persisting intolerance in the United States of America in terms of race, ethnic, and religion. Ishmael Reed in his article entitled, “ ...

Introduction

Africa today is one the most undeveloped continents with numerous issues plaguing it. This paper shall be examining Africa’s past and history in general in an attempt to understand how it arrived in such a situation. The primary focus of this paper shall be the reasons that as explained previously led to these failures. Europeans colonized all of Africa with the exception of Liberia and Ethiopia 19th and 20th century. The numerous guiding factors behind colonization included search for raw materials and settlement for surplus population among other reasons. The Africans prior to the colonization had their established systems ...

How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity. While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone. Millions ...

Iraq

Introduction Iraq is a country that is located in Western Asia. According to the website of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Its official name is the Republic of Iraq. It is surrounded by the countries of Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Its capital is Baghdad, which is also its largest city (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014). According to the website of the White House, the country, however, enjoys a narrow coastline of length on the northern section of the Persian Gulf, which is adjacent to the Mesopotamian Alluvial Plain, otherwise known as the Tigris-Euphrates River System, the home of the Fertile ...