Crimes against humanity are felonies, such as genocide, targeting many people because of their race, religion, or other beliefs. They are spread throughout history from Biblical times to the 90’s. They have also been all over the world. Crimes against humanity begin with racism, hatred, discrimination, and intolerance. These crimes can be explained through their roots, examples, and the survivors.
Discrimination, “the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people” (Merriam Webster Dictionary- Discrimination), may just start out as just simple acts of excluding people, but they can lead to far worse actions. Intolerance is very similar. Intolerance is “to be unable or unwilling to allow some people to have equality, freedom, or other social rights,” (Merriam Webster Dictionary- Intolerance). These two are alike because they both have no individual reason to discriminate or to be intolerant; they may be based off of a stereotype. Finally there is hatred. Hatred is defined as “prejudiced hostility or animosity,” (Merriam Webster Dictionary- Hatred). Hatred is something that most people feel towards someone or something. Who knew it could lead to something as cruel as genocide? Discrimination, intolerance, and hatred are all linked to crimes against humanity because those are what cause the perpetrators to commit such evil crimes.
Throughout history and all over the world, there have been many crimes against humanity. Race and religion are two of the most common reasons for targeting a group of people. One example of racism leading to these crimes is the Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian massacres. From 1894- 1896, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdul Hamid II, ordered a series of violent military operatio...
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While prejudice and discrimination are closely related, the terms are not interchangeable. Prejudice is a negative attitude, feelings, thoughts or beliefs toward an entire category of people. There are two important factors that are present in the definition of prejudice, and they are attitude and entire category (Schaefer 35).