Genocide In Crimea

History is a phenomenon that has the propensity to repeat itself. Genocides have been committed throughout history, even before the term was assembled in 1944 and accepted by the United Nations in 1946 as a crime under international law. According to the United Nations, genocide is defined as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” A minimum of twenty-seven genocides have been documented across the world. During the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukrainian genocide (Holodomor) transpired. Currently, in the 21st century, the world is witnessing another brutal genocide occurring in Myanmar. A kindred pattern of events is perceived throughout the duration of genocides along with

One of the most gruesome genocides to happen during the 20th century is the Greek Genocide, often referred to as the Pontian or Ottoman Greek Genocide. This genocide consisted of mass killings and exterminations of the Ottoman Greeks by the Turkish rule from 1914-1923. The main dispute was difference in religion and beliefs, Christians versus Islam. What most people do not know is that the Ottoman Greek Genocide is responsible for the almost complete destruction of the Christian Orthodox culture, including monuments and history. Many Greeks suffered from forced deportations, death marches, forced conversion of religion, executions, labor battalions, hunger, and the overall cruelty of the Turkish government during this time period. The ones responsible for these acts was the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) and the Young Turk reformists who seized control of the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Greeks of all ages and genders were persecuted because of their culture and minority in Turkey, so that the CUP and the Young Turks could achieved perfect “Turkification” of the empire.

Crimean war: is a war that occurred between 1853 and 1856 , between Russia against a union of Great Britain, Sardinia, France, and Turkey. The attack of Russia against Turkey launched the war, bu this later made alliances with the above indicated countries and destroyed the naval power of Russia in the Black sea (1854), which enabled them to capture the castle city of Sebastopol that was sieged for long time in 1855.

Genocides occur across our globe from the past, but also are not uncommon in the present. Holodomor was a horrible genocide in the Soviet Union from 1932-1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. This cruelty of a slow death by starving was a purposeful act by Joseph Stalin and the leaders at that time. To cease further genocides in our world today, it is imperative to know how this corruption and disaster starts, so it can be prevented in the future. By understanding the Soviet leader’s motives and the lives affected by this famine, this will lead to further comprehension about power and communism. Power corrupts those who are given the authority, infringes upon their morals, and can make them commit horrible atrocities.

Hated has always been part of human nature, it is an inevitable emotion that can consumes the souls of men. The genocide in Ukraine during the early 1900s caused incredible suffering. Referred to as Holodomor which translates to killing by hunger, the Ukrainian starvation was a man made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Ukraine and the traditional Cossack territories starved to death due to Stalin’s government seizing of crops resulting in the countries denial of the genocide and even cannibalism.

The Crimean war of 1853-1856 was fought at Crimean Peninsula, where Russia was fighting mainly against Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. The war was known as a long bloody war, as a result of poor organisation, leadership and communication of both Russia and the allies. Russia also known as the ‘Police of Europe’ due to the Vienna Treaty of 1814 was responsible in keeping peace in Europe, but this all changed when

While chaos continued to spread across the country, Russia began to eye the territory of Crimea, one if Ukraine’s most southwestern territories and an area that used to belong to Russia until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. By the end of February, masked Russian troops without insignias took over the Supreme Council of Crimea and several strategic sites across Crimea. This event led to the installation of the pro-Russian Aksyonov government in Crimea and the declaration of Crimea 's independence. This spurred the Ukraine’s provisional government to request an emergency meeting with the U.N. Security Council in which they called on Russia to stop all military action in Crimea. By Mach 1st, Russia’s parliament approves President Putin 's request to use force

Raphael Lemkin described genocide as "acts of barbarism that should be outlawed, even in times of war". Lemkin is right. Genocide is a cruel vicious act that I do not wish upon my greatest enemies. It is torture and death. A lot of people think genocide is a thing of the past. After all it is 2014 already. We are so much more advanced and connected then back during the time of the Holocaust. A genocide started just 22 years ago and it was during the Bosnian War. The Bosnian Genocide was atrocious because it classified and dehumanized a religion, it allowed for the extermination of a people based on religion and the murderers denied they ever committed a crime and tried to cover the deaths up.

Between the years 1932 and 1933, the people of Ukraine were trapped inside their country with no food. The famine was started by John Stalin in hopes to undermine their pride, as they had begun rebellions against the Soviet Union, which ruled Ukraine. The famine, also known as Holodomor, or “death by hunger” killed nearly 10 million people.

American politician, Tim Walz, said, “You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again”(Tim). The Ukraine genocide went through almost all of the stages and not many people realized that. The Ukraine Genocide is considered a genocide because it meets three of the five parts of the United Nations definitions of genocide, and it went through all of Gregory Stanton’s eight stages of genocide

Greeks began settling Asia Minor or Anatolia which means “east” in Greek in the 12th Century BCE. They mainly settled along the Aegean littoral although some traveled farther east and settled along the southern shores of the Black Sea and the surrounding coastal areas. This area was known as Pontus or Greek Pontus. Pontus is an ancient Greek word for sea. Pontus and the Pontian hinterland were once the most powerful city-states until its defeat by the Romans in 63 B.C.

The Ukraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe. So, it is difficult to picture a continent such as this having people who would starve to death. But by the order of the dictator Stalin this is an event that indeed took place---a “silent holocaust” which caused the death of more than 10 million Ukrainians. This was a mass killing without bullets, guns, or executions but by slow painful starvation. This event called “Holodomor” literally means “death by hunger.” While the definition of genocide would come many years later, this atrocity surely fits the definition.

In 1915, the Ottoman Turks committed the first modern day genocide against the Armenian population. This mass extermination of the Armenians, which was only deemed a genocide in later years, resulted in the deaths of over 1.5 million people. This was the first time genocide took place in the modern era, showing to be the direct result of a stated ideology in which the deliberate annihilation of an entire people was both affirmed as a policy goal and carried through by the forces of the state acting in unison. This governmental system-wide extermination consisted of massive and repeated deportations, rape, kidnapping, mutilation, outright killing, death from exposure, starvation, and thirst.

cold water ports and sought to take hold on the warm water port of Crimea. However Crimea was in the Ottoman Empire which was being taken control of by European powers, so when the

This essay is a short discussion on the international criminal courts’ contribution to truth finding and reconciliation, examining the Greek Genocide. The essay presents the Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek genocide as one and so has a broader scope, the genocide of the Christians in the Ottoman Empire. The experiences of the three ethnic groups took place in the same region, during the same time period, as part of the same historical, social, and political forces involving a continuity of perpetrators with an identical motive: to create an ethnically pure Turkish state out of a multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire. Ultimate purpose was that economic power would stay in Turkey.