Genocide In 'Left To Tell'

The analysis of the genocides that took place both in Rwanda and Sudan’s Darfur region exhibit some similarities as well as differences. The character of violence was similar in both cases, but in Rwanda the violence was more intense, participatory, and extraordinary. The violence in these two places took place in an environment that had experienced civil wars. It was a period of political transition which was further aggravated by ethnic nationalism and a conflict of ethnic populations that were living in close proximity. However, in the Rwandan genocide, the state is more centralized, compact, and effective. This is what explains the intensity and variation. The international response to these genocides through observers emphasized on

As responsible members of the society, we must legally define the term genocide so that it may be used effectively and efficiently in international courts of law, in order to hold those who do not value human lives accountable for their actions. Genocides must also be acknowledged internationally in order to honor those who died; continuing to disavow these mass murders or ethnic cleansings on an international stage is an insult to those who

Although they are ethnically and religiously different from that of ISIS, the atrocities against them do not classify as genocide because the intent for extermination is not there. ISIS’s ideologies give way to its vast brutality, and does not specifically call for the extermination of Yazidi’s in their caliphate but rather the extermination of all infidels in their caliphate. I believe that what is happening to the Yazidi’s and other ethnic and religious minorities groups that find themselves under the rule of ISIS is that they are prisoners of war that are being treated inhumanly. A key point of ISIS however is that they are not recognized as a state and their apocalyptic underbelly does not allow them to see the further implication of their human rights violation. That coupled with their aim of pleasing Allah is why such violence has been portrayed, the Yazidi’s just happen to reside in a location in which ISIS has control over. By no means am I trying to belittle the atrocities of the Yazidi’s. The intent of this paper was to explore what is happening to them and make sense of it. The Yazidi’s are prisoners of war that are being treated inhumanely, not victims of genocide, either way they and all other victims of ISIS deserve protection and reconciliation. Future research should expand upon the effects of an insurgency/terrorist group that have control of territory have on the brutality of the group

This essay will review the documentary – “Road to Genocide” where Christian paramilitaries in Central African Republic (CAR) carried out ethnic cleansing of the Muslim population during the state’s ongoing civil war. At the very outset of this video, a crumbling Central Africa is portrayed with utter mayhem, horrendous acts of violence and human massacres. We will elaborate on how conflict in this particular context is accentuated with reference to its socio-economic, cultural, historical and political factors.

Genocide is always one of the most horrible topics in the whole history of man. This topic jumped out to me , because my native country was destroyed because of a Genocide 100 years ago and became a small and weak country. In 1915 Turkey made a Genocide against Armenia and one and half million Armenians were killed and many more were exiled to the desert of Syria.” Genocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity and implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group” (Alain Destexhe). Many countries were destroyed by genocide.Examples of Genocides in recent history are Holocaust(WW 2), Bosnia(1995), Rwanda(1994) ,South Sudan(2003) ,Cambodia(1975).

The Darfur region of western Sudan has been recognized as the site of genocide since 2004 by dozens of political officials and bodies (including the U.S. Congress and the EU Parliament), human rights groups, a wide range of genocide and human rights scholars, and such commemorative bodies as the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Vad Yashem in Israel. Senator, candidate, and President Obama not only declared that genocide was occurring in Darfur but campaigned on the issue in 2008, referring to the Darfur genocide as a “stain on our souls.” Indeed, Barack Obama...indeed.

The Rwandan Genocide was the attempted extermination of Tutsis by the neighboring Hutu population. In a mere span of 100 days dating from April 7th to mid July 1994 approximately 1,000,000 Rwandans were murdered. That is in simpler terms, 7 people every minute. 20 years later, we are experiencing a sort of echo with the Syria crisis and frighteningly enough so is the disheartening inaction of world powers, the difference being the presence of United Nations action. UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres was quoted as saying, “We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan Genocide almost 20 years ago”. An opposing 3 million refugees displaced from their homes and 93,000 casualties in Syria since March 2011.

Genocide is the word that represents when different kind of violence is used against members of a certain race, culture, religious group or anything that a group of people may oppose as a unit. Around the 1940’s genocide wasn 't a term that was used by anyone around the world until after world war II, when the Nazi’s were trying to kill a whole ethnic group. At this point was when the United Nations decided to declare genocide a national crime, but that hasn 't stopped anyone from committing genocide throughout the years. Another very known even related to genocide happened around the 1990’s was the Rwandan genocide, in which many lives were lost both children and adults. Though Genocide happens a lot many people don 't seem to know what it is, what it does, who’s involved, and many other related things to the subject. Genocide needs to be a term in everyone 's vocabulary, because the more educated person is on a subject the more they have power to prevent it from occurring around them. Genocide changed the world because it showed people the warning signs, to see what was truly happening in foreign countries, and it helped to try to find solution to the world 's most undercover massacres.

Genocide is the ultimate expression of hatred and contempt. There is only one place for it in the human rights discussion, which is at the very top. There is no crime more heinous than the extermination or attempt to exterminate a people because of their race, nationality, or religion. Currently, the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is killing Yazidis (Yezidi), a Kurdish speaking religious minority. By the thousands in Syria and Iraq. The men are slaughtered and the women and children are kept as sexual slaves. The local government is a mess in both nations and some would say under siege themselves. The International Community has done little more than issue a UN report called “They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis.” These people

Before determining what drives and sustains genocide, it is important to define the meaning of the term. The community of scholars that currently study genocide was once small. Two incidents widened the study of genocide; the first was the end of the Cold War, which raised the international community’s awareness of human rights, which genocide falls under. Secondly, there was mass killings of civilians in Rwanda, Yugoslavia, and Darfur. Which heightened the international community’s sense of urgency, which was necessary to prevent further acts of genocide. According to Straus, “No two authors under review share the same definition of the term and as a result the authors end up explaining fairly different phenomena” (Straus 2007, p. 479). The

In Paul Rusesabagnia’s, An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography, he tells his story of working in a hotel and turning this hotel into a refuge for over a thousand men, women, and children. He turned the hotel into a refuge to provide safety for targeted groups during an “ethnic cleansing.” Rusesabagnia shows his view son genocide during war, or the disregard for human life, by stating:

The Yazidi religious minority was a subject to extreme violence perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2014. This thesis argues that the violence was genocidal in nature and aimed to destroy the Yazidi group as such. Using theories from sociology, it seeks to explain how the violence caused a tremendous social change within the Yazidi community, instead of concentrating on numbers, legal, or political viewpoints. The study further revised concepts of terrorism and perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrates that the perpetrator does not necessarily need to be a state, but another kind of strong organization can be capable of committing such atrocities as well.

The holocaust was one of the worst tragedies that took place in the world. Over fifty years later, history is repeating itself with the new terrorist organization known as ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. This horrendous organization prides itself on terrorizing humanity with kidnappings, forced amputations, videotaped beheadings, and attacking any form of humanitarian aid. Moreover, the Islamic State is killing hundreds of innocent people while countries around the world stand by shocked. Although fighting fire with fire is not the answer, sometimes fire is the only weapon that will work. I have gathered Adolf Hitler, Mohandas Gandhi, Helga Schneider, Paul Baumer, and the United Nations to help discuss why violence

The contrasts between the persecution of the Yazidi Christians in Syria by ISIS, and the systematic industrial massacre of 6 million Jews by the Nazi’s in the 1940’s, appear to be greater than the similarities by quite some margin. Indeed in all of the prescribed characteristics of Genocide, the systemic and deliberate destruction of the social and political basis of a group with the end goal of annihilating the group itself, (Lemkin, 1944), the difference in scale and scope is

State-sponsored violence has led to some of the most horrendous human right crimes such as genocide and torture. These crimes are often under the constant fire of debate as scholars try to reason as to why they occur. However, the debates of genocide and torture are not exclusively attributed to the fact that they occur, but also, as to why people participate in these acts to begin with. Contrary to popular belief the majority of participants in state-sponsored violence are often not radical extremists, but rather, ordinary people. In instances, such as the genocide in Rwanda, participants were average everyday people, often neighbors of the victims, who carried out many of the killings. Also, in