Essays on Genocide

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

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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

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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 –

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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Abstract

Genocide must be stopped everywhere in the world and Cameroon is a good place to start. Genocidal criminal activities can cause death as well as physical and mental injuries. Forcing children to move out of their home, an attempt to commit genocide, conspiring and/or incitement to commit genocide and complicity in genocide are all covered under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Cameroon has experienced genocide and attacks by the Central African Republic are one example. The international community needs to intervene to stop the genocide and to organize legitimate elections. In order to promote

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Introduction

The Armenian genocide is the mass killing of minority of the Armenian population. The Armenian genocide occurred when the World War one was taking place and continued after the war was over. The government headed by Ottoman systematically exterminated minority of Armenian population from their rightful land. This genocide started by mass killing of strong male population. These men were forced hard to work while women and children were deported to Syrian Desert. The elderly were not left behind in the deportation to Syrian Desert. Some of the religious groups were also targeted (Dadrian, 2010).

Anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism is the discrimination

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Abstract

The conducted research will be narrating about the bloody revolution, in terms of genocide that took place during the years of 1975-1979 in Cambodia, and was carried out by the Khmer Rouge regime in pursuit of the economic stability and self-reliability of the country. Planned as a peaceful revolution, it rapidly turned to be aggressive and bloody as soon as the Khmer Rouge regime gained power and was able to control and manipulate huge masses of people using fear, tortures, and death as their primary methods, which resulted in the extermination of up to two million people (21 to

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Genocide in Guatemala: An Outline
Guatemala is mostly hilly country in Central America. It was erstwhile the heart of the well-known Mayan civilization, which was prevalent till the 10th century AD. When Spanish voyagers invaded Maya in the 16th century, the indigenous Mayans were enslaved in their own native soil. They are even now the most underprivileged majority of the Guatemala's population. Such kinds of inequalities and cruelties of Mayan people led to bitter Civil war in Guatemala which resulted in the mass genocide of this community.
In 1970s, the Maya

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That there was genocide in Rwanda culminating to the death of close to 1 million people is no secret. It has been 19 years since the world watched in disbelief as a nation descended upon itself in a move to exterminate one another. In order to bring justice to the victims, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was formed to prosecute the core perpetrators. This court was established in November 1994 by the United Nation Security Council to try those responsible for the genocide and other violation of international law in Rwanda. These crimes ranged from planned exterminations

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The concept of sovereignty is one in which nations around the world hold dear to the advancement of their international policy. The principles of sovereignty dictate that a country holds unlimited power over the ability to govern itself without outside interference. The advancement of these principles gives the rest of the world powers a peripheral role in determining the destiny of separate nations. While this concept is important in ensuring that countries do not overstep their authority and harm the interests of other nations for the advancement of their own, the applicability of the sovereignty of a nation is

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Former Guatemalan dictator General Jose Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide on May 10, 2013; the crimes he committed were performed against the Mayan-Ixil people and occurred during his leadership from 1982-1983 (Kearns). His offenses, which include rape, murder, and displacement of Mayan-Ixil people from their villages led Judge Jazmin Berrios to hand down an 80-year sentence, with 30 years for his crimes against humanity and 50 years for the genocide (Kearns).
A variety of evidence led a Guatemalan tribunal to conclude that Montt was guilty of these crimes. Ixil people who witnessed and

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Genocide involves the mass killing of certain ethics, race or group of individuals. The motive of mass killing may be due to political difference, religious difference, culture difference and mistrust among different group. Increase in frequencies of the genocide has made historian explore on the main causes of the genocide. Their researches are aimed to prevent cases of genocide. Jan Gross, the writer of the book Neighbors has done extensive analysis of what led to the Jewish genocide. The book exposes the perpetrator of the Jewish genocide. A contrast to the historical believes that the genocide was facilitated by

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Introduction

Genocide was born out of the whims of political leaders whose powers met no restraints in the form of any formal convention. Political leaders gain motivation to commit genocide from their sheer dislike towards differences, often defined through nationality, religion and race, among others. Genocidal events have imbued a lasting negative impression throughout generations that have succeeded, especially on groups of people whose ancestors have gone through the plight of mass killings. With that kind of awareness in mind, contemporary politics has become more sensitive in limiting the powers of political leaders. Notions on human

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AMERICAN LEGACY OF GUILT OVER THE GENOCIDE IN RWANDA AND DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.

Genocide is a saddening word in its description. The word did not exist before the year 1944. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer, describes it as an intended and a coordinated plan of different actions such as killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm or imposing measures intended to prevent birth within a group with the aim of destructing essential foundations of life of a national, racial or ethnical group. (Funk, T. Marcus (2010) page 1) .According to 1948 United Nations Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide article 2; genocide is an act done with

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“Genocide” is the term used to describe a mass destruction of, or within a particular group, based on racial, religious, or ethnic discrimination, with deliberate and systematic motives. The term “Genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, in the year 1944. Lemkin was a lawyer and his book “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” introduced us to this term for the first time. According to Raphael Lemkin, “Genocide signifies a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.” However, according to the Convention

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The Holocaust is recognized as the as the most horrible and grisly demonstration of the brutality of genocide, and it is shocking to learn that businesses at the time actually profited because of the genocide. Over the years, many American, German, and other foreign countries trying to do business have caused controversy because of their ties in the Holocaust (Greenspan, 2008). The Ford Motor Company, IBM, and IG Farben, a German company, are at the top of the list of companies that played a role in the Holocaust.
Although, Hitler hated outgroup religions for centuries, but it was Henry

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Introduction

Numerous historians have indicated that the Holocaust is without parallel in history as a crime against humanity. Based partly on the history over the last 2,500 years of anti-Semitism, and partly on reference sources researched in the process of preparing this essay, the writer agrees with the view taken by historians and others that the Holocaust was indeed unique when compared with other incidences of genocide or mass killing of a population.

What Made the Holocaust Unique

Major reasons for singling out the Holocaust as a unique crime in human history are:
- As indicated in the reading “A Brief History of the

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