Genocide : What Some People Want Know

In Rwanda during 1994 Genocide happened between the Hutus and Tutsis. Hutus and Tutsis had disagreements on who will have power which effected the whole population of Rwanda. This leads to the question why there is Genocide in Rwanda? Genocide happened by two clans who caused mass causalities. Others did little to help which caused Genocide to happen in Rwanda.

In the past 150 years, tens of millions of men, women and children have lost their lives to ethnic cleansing or genocide. Although the definition is often scrutinized, according to Merriam Webster, "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group". The most notable event associated with the term is the Holocaust. Stated by Judah Gribets, Edward Greenstein and Regina Stein, "nearly six million Jews fell victim to genocide during the years of the Holocaust". Of This number, one million were children who were unable to take care of themselves. People's hopes and dreams for the future were stripped from them, and many families were ripped apart. Many of these people were tortured or raped

Although after World War 1 the Nazis needed someone to blame for the many deaths and poor economy that resulted in losing the war, and the Jews were an easy target to blame, the citizens of Germany should have stopped the genocide, because innocent lives were lost, and they should have been more aware of the horrors and tragedies that were happening within their own backyards.

What do the Holocaust, the Nigerian Civil War, the killings in Rwanda during the 1990s, the killings in Bosnia in 1991, and the Holodomor all have in common? They are all examples of genocide. Genocide is the deliberate destruction of a political, religious, racial or ethnic group. Raphael Lemkin, a survivor of the Holocaust, created the term to describe the horrific events of the Holocaust. Although the term “genocide” is a newer term, there are records of mass slaughters that date back to ancient times. During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler attempted to kill off the entire Jewish population. After not getting any help, Raphael Lemkin took his situation to the United Nations’ court. They debated the case for a long time, and eventually

The slaughtering of 1.5 million innocent people at the hands of a cruel failing empire. Families and friends torn apart for no reason and all while being silenced from the rest of the world. The Armenian Genocide was swept under the rug by the successor to the Ottoman empire, the Turkish Republic. The cruelty in slaughtering millions of people, to using them for slave labor, and numerous death camps for women and children the Armenian Genocide was a tragic time in the history of Armenians and they are being denied recognition for their ancestors tragic loss of life. The crimes against humanity caused by the Ottomans and the Turks in the killing of millions of people is further inflated by the deliberate withholding

What is genocide? Is what some people want to know. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. It happens everywhere all around the world. In my opinion, I don 't agree with the acts of genocide. They were too harsh on those people who didn 't even deserve to be treated that way. The holocaust started in January 30, 1933. The president during the time was Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. In march 20, 1933 an officers opened the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich. The camp was help for people like jews to be tortured and it wasn 't any good thing about the concentration camp. The Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist government. This camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau. During the first year the camp held about 4,800 prisoners. In the early 1937 the SS was using prisoner labor and began construction of a large complex of buildings on the grounds of the original camp. The prisoners were forced to do the work starting with the destruction of the old munitions factory. It was under terrible conditions. The construction was completed in mid August 1938 and camp wasn 't changed until 1945. The number of Jewish prisoners at Dachau rose with the increased persecution of jews and on November 10 to 11, 1938 in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. There was

In order to understand the term genocide and how it works, one must understand the definition of it. Genocide, is a greek word, “geno” means people, race and “cide” means to destroy or to kill, so in other words it is defined as intended annihilation of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. The indigenous people of America, came to this land many years ago, before than any Europeans. They settled their tribes in here and created a new home for themselves where they lived a thousand years. However, this did not last long, until Europeans settled in America. When Europeans were settled in America, they enslaved Native Americans, took their golds away, made them to convert to Christianity and introduced them to many disease. Everything

In 1936 Hitler allied with Mussolini and sent troops into Rhineland. In 1938, Hitler annexing Austria. This should have been a red flag for the other countries because Hitler already broke the Versailles Treaty. However, nothing was done. Only one year later German troops invalided the Poland. At first the Germans were somewhat progressive with the amount of aircrafts they acquired. Their mobile, mechanized offensive force was very effective and underestimated. The German air force was strong and effective. With 1,300 planes, countless soldiers on foot and tanks the Polish, they didn’t stand a chance. The Germans technique of Blitzkrieg or lightening war proved to work. With this technique the Netherlands only stood for four days. The countries

Genocide is an intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word "genocide" is a combination of the Greek word génos ("race, people") and the Latin suffix -cide ("act of killing"). (Wikimedia Foundation )

Humans tend to feel morally compelled to help others in times of tragedy and chaos; however, there are limitations on the force of compassion. During recent and historical genocides, many outsiders’ universes of obligation have narrowed due to social and political factors, turning them into bystanders of ethnic crisis. Similarly, the world was unresponsive to the ethnic eradication of Tamils in Sri Lanka since 1983. For twenty-six years, tens of thousands of helpless Tamils suffered as human shields for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and were caught in the crossfire of a civil war between the extremist group and the national government. The collective desire for the United States, UN, and Sri Lankan government to maintain

In what way should people interpret how the process of genocide works when coming across a statement from Adolf Hitler (1939) saying, “My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time. As for the rest gentleman, the fate of Russia will be exactly the same as I am now going through with the case of Poland. After Stalin’s death…we will break the Soviet Union. Then there will begin the dawn of the German rule of the earth” ("Poland Will Be Depopulated and Settled with Germans” document). Judging by the content of that statement, one may interpret that genocide works as a process to break down another country. To some extent, that is correct but one must learn that this process encompasses strategies in order to achieve the downfall of a country. For one thing, to understand how genocide works, one needs to know what that term means. Genocide is an intentional physical or cultural act of eliminating the population of a specific national, ethnical, racial or religious group (Kiernan). Moving forward, the process of genocide works as a cycle of manipulation and elimination to intentionally remove a certain group of people. This cycle of manipulation was applied towards targeted groups and those who enforced the platform of genocide. Influence was a force intended to manipulate how people think, as well as obedience. Targeted groups were influenced to believe their harsh conditions would eventually come to an end by obeying any given instruction. Also, those who

The atrocity of genocide can no longer coexist with humans. The United States needs to lead the charge in stopping genocide worldwide. With the support of the UN genocide on earth can completely be destroyed as a problem.

“The Democratic Republic of Congo has a long history of conflict, but it’s recent crises can be traced to the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In response to violence carried out by exiled Rwandan Hutu genocidaires; Rwandan and Ugandan force invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1996” (Responsibility to Protect). What the world and America should have done to prevent the DR-Congo conflict is intervene in the Rwandan genocide; while they had a chance because Congo became the precursor of the Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan genocide had a major impact on the conflict occurring in DR-Congo because of the killers blending in the refugee camps and taking over and committing atrocities to men, women, and children.

Until the twentieth-century, the world was unfamiliar with the newly-named phenomenon known as genocide. The first instance of the mass killing of an ethnic group that proliferated throughout world news was the Holocaust. Under the Nazi Regime, the German government indiscriminately massacred millions of Jewish men, women and children. However, the Holocaust was by no means the first occurrence of a genocide. Historical evidence reveals a pattern of massacre on the basis of ethnicity that is markedly apparent in civilizations dating back to the time of the Roman Empire. While the Holocaust gave birth to the idea of genocide, civilizations throughout history have instituted the cruel methods of mass extermination since the introduction of

Genocide, a dire event, has been recurring time and time again throughout history. In the past, there was the Holocaust, where Hitler exterminated over six million Jews based on his anti-semitic views. Elie Wiesel, a Jewish author, has become a very influential man in educating the world of the true events of the Holocaust due to his involvement in the disaster. Presently, a genocide is occurring in the Darfur region of southern Sudan, in which according to Cheryl Goldmark, “a systematic slaughter of non-Arab residents at the the hands of Arab militiamen called Janjaweed” has been taking place since 2003. (1) Not only is genocide a tragic historical event, it also continuously occurs today.