Genocide is a reality that no one can ever conquer or vanish if they are working alone or do not look at the consequences upon taking choices of action. We as Americans feel it is our duty to only take a course of action if we know and are fully aware of the actions being made against the people, or if we are being affected directly. If it does not affect us and we do not know about it then obviously we cannot do anything about it. We feel that if we know what is going on and it is not directly affecting
Stalin’s Crimes: Genocide or Not Genocide? It is no mystery that Stalin’s brutal totalitarian regime costed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens. It is estimated that between 1930 and 1953, over one million Soviet citizens were executed, six million were deported to special settlements, 16 to 17 million were imprisoned in forced labor, and three to five million starved to death (131-132). However, the question is, do these crimes amount to genocide, the crime of crimes? Many scholars would not
The crime of genocide is one of the most devastating human tragedies throughout the history. And the word genocide refers to an organised destruction to a specific group of people who belongs to the same culture, ethnic, racial, religious, or national group often in a war situation. Similar to mass killing, where anyone who is related to the particular group regardless their age, gender and ethnic background becomes the killing targets, genocide involves in more depth towards destroying people’s
Indian Genocide The United States government used military force to follow a policy of genocide toward the Native Americans. Politically, the policies of removal, concentration, and assimilation caused the death of thousands of Native Americans. Economically, the United States government used military force whenever any valuable resource was discovered on Indian Land. Socially, the near extermination of the Buffalo caused starvation and death among the tribes. The evidence clearly indicates that
ever asked yourself, “what IS genocide?” genocide is when a specific group of people is being targeted because of their race, religion, or political party. You may have heard about World War II or the Holocaust, the holocaust is the best known genocide in the world. This involved the persecution of all, and in this particular genocide, Hitler, the Nazi leader, killed over 6 million Jews! Although you may think that the Holocaust and World War II are the only genocides that have happened, you’re wrong
but definitely possible. The word genocide, which is also known as ethnic cleansing, is certainly not uncommon to anyone living in this not so perfect world, full of violence, hatred and discrimination. Throughout the decades, genocide has taken place in more than one occasion, causing wars, slaughters and mass destruction of cities and towns. I think that genocide is by far the worst crime in humanity. Hatred, superiority and personal memories are all behind genocide. Everyday, I get more surprised
Genocide is a prominent obstruction to First nation and Aboriginal Culture. Throughout history it has proved to be a topic of terror and a harsh reality that no way of life should feel they must come to terms with. Rather, genocide is a repulsive divertissement that feeds the needs of the traditionalistic supremacist. These movements prey off of the fear that they acquire, and the terror that they procure. “The fact that we were unconsciously part of a plan to weaken and cross out the Indianness
Darfur is located in the western region of Sudan, adjacent to Chad and Central Africa. Darfur is ethnically and culturally diverse; its population is approximately 6 million people from as many as 100 tribes. The Darfur genocide was not an abrupt event; it was a culmination of incidents that raised ethnic tensions within the African country of Sudan. One can trace the start of the tension all the way back to 1989, when Omar al-Bashir came to power in a coup. It is his regime that has inflamed ethnic
Abstract: The Armenian Genocide is a lesser known tragedy that involved the death of millions of individuals over the course of some odd years. And while these murders nearly wiped out an entire people, this holocaust has been disputed for plenty of years and denied extensively to the point where it is rarely known by individuals outside of the community of which share the same background. Yet while denied and excluded from the typical narrative discussing mass exterminations and genocide, Dr. Stanton’s
The root of the conflict that led to genocide in Darfur stems from a conglomerate of problems which involve social, economic and especially ethnic and tribal issues. Most of the blame has been directed towards British colonial policies, and as some would assume that the causation of war would be centered on religious persecution, this simply isn't the case. During the British rule in the latter part of the 19th century, a perpetuating cycle of neglect in the vast southern region of Sudan was quite
Genocide is a known concept by the majority of people in the world; however, the word is a new concept. It was not until the brutality of the Holocaust, mass killing of a group of individuals based on their intrinsic characteristics was genocide conceived (King, Ferencz, & Harris, 2008). After the world witnessed the autocracies of the Holocaust the international communities vowed to ensure that another genocide “would never happen again”(Straus, 2016, p.367). The United Nations Genocide Convention
for this wicked act. After the war, many of these Nazi war criminals were convicted of an act called genocide, a word that did not exist before 1944. Genocide is the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. Genocide occurs because of many factors that trigger this cruelty. Although there are many reasons that can be considered to result in genocide, the three main reasons that result to this mass slaughter, are caused by the authority that leads
The word genocide was derived from the Greek root genos (people) and the Latin root cide (killing), and did not exist in the English language until 1944, which was the end of World War II (Power). According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” Such violence occurred during the Holocaust and during the separation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The problems of ethnic cleansing and repression have become so
violences of genocide, as described in the quote, can be further enforced under the context of gendercide. Though not widely discussed, gendercide is a
there are benefits to having a “pure society.” These extremist countries tend to perform socially and ethically unacceptable acts in order to enforce their personal opinions and beliefs on others. These “acts” are present in today’s society such as genocide and ethnic cleansing. For centuries there has been conflict between countries and not until after WWII was there anything official to neutralize the conflict: The United Nations (UN). Born into existence officially on October 24, 1945, when the
Genocide (noun): The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Throughout the last two decades, genocide has plagued the world’s history. Within every genocide there has ran a constant theme throughout, at the root, hatred. From here is grows into an intractable behemoth consisting of inexplicable murders of numerous people. Although the methods vary, the purpose it xeroxed, to rid a particular group of people in order to make the
The development of cultural genocide, and its definition, within international law can be seen from its origin, Raphael Lemkin, to the subsequent debate by the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee on Genocide, to its omission from the Genocide Convention, and now to its reintroduction in the international arena by Indigenous peoples’ mobilization. Furthermore, the various components in the United Nations’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNGC), specifically article
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term genocide is considered to be the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial or cultural group (Merriam-Webster). There have been numerous occasions that have claimed the notorious title of genocide, but one of the most controversial can be found in the case of Darfur. The “Darfur Genocide”, as known by many people in the world, denotes the mass raping and killing of the women, men, and even children in the western region of Sudan. This
Native American Genocide b. causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c. deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d. imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e. forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (Destexhe). In this paper, I will argue that the act of genocide as here defined, has been committed by the United States of America, upon the
surrounds the importance and value of human life. One of these controversies is the systematic killing of a mass amount of people that is known as genocide. The most egregious crime of all is genocide which also shares similarities with war crimes and crimes against humanity. Genocide targets a group of people and seek out to destroy them in whole. Genocide is included as one of the four core international crimes. The Penal Statue defines international crimes as the gravest crimes that threaten peace