The Armenian and Cambodian Genocides

The Cambodian Genocide and the Armenian Genocide have similar methods of how the victims were killed. They similarly murdered their victims, starved their victims and targeted government officials. They were different in that the Armenians were deported but the Khmer Rouge targeted Cambodians based of their class and had re-education camps. The Cambodian Genocide happened between 1975 and 1979 in Cambodia where the Khmer Rouge, a guerrilla group, over threw the government and started a regime to

“A genocide is a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are defined by the perpetrator”. (Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, 2005). It is an inhumane thought that a particular group should be extinct because of the perpetrators outlook of that society. Learning about Adolf Hitler and the tragedy of the Holocaust, was a changing point to many, of how ones society could be exterminated because of one’s hair and

Peter Drost defined genocide as the “deliberate destruction of physical life of individual human beings by reason of their membership of any human collectivity as such.” Henry Huttenbach defined it as “any act that puts the very existence of a group in jeopardy.” It can, thus, be observed that the jurisprudence surrounding genocide has developed rapidly in the recent years and there has been a spurt in public interest in the topic, along with an increase in the research on genocide, leading to many

“Who does now remember the Armenians?” This famous quote, spoken by Adolf Hitler, gives us a small glimpse of the mind regarding a cruel monster. When Hitler said this, he was referring to the Armenian Genocide, which to this day, the Turkish Government still refuses to acknowledge. He believes that the world will not remember the “extermination of a people”. Although these are harsh words to speak and ugly thoughts to think; Hitler is accurate with these words. In our modern society, few people

of the movie, we knew little about how U.S. policies spilled over into Cambodia. The film made a human connection with the genocide of many Cambodians. The purpose was to shed light on the villains who were Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (Magid 112). Another purpose was to bring the atrocities to the light. Another purpose of the film was to highlight the ravages of war, genocides, and mass murders. The purpose of the movie was to bring an emotional connection on a human level. The movies based on a true

I have selected to look at the Armenian genocide as the central topic for my Senior Project. The Armenian Genocide is the term given to the systematic killings of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during the first World War. This event is important because it is argued to be the first modem genocide and was one of the events studied in the attempt to define what a genocide is. The Armenian genocide is so important for study because of it's close relation to the creation of the nation of

The systematic killing of a specific group of people, or genocide, has been occurring for thousands of years. The book To Kill A People, by John Cox, discusses the different factors of genocide such as the contributions to genocide, how genocide is defined, and also specific genocides such as the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Cambodian Genocide. These genocides were absolutely horrifying as many people were killed in death camps, concentration camps, lynched, beheaded, shot, and stabbed

Genocide has been classified by the United Nations as: Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring

The killings happened in the Ottoman Empire and was a result of the political party called the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) who decided to wage a war on the Armenian people. With this many people dying people stood back and watched for a period of time without doing anything to stop it. This should not happen. People and countries should rise to help each other and stop these disastrous mishaps from ever happening

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