The Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam

Considering the scenario mentioned above, it deems necessary to prevent any more outbreaks like these. Necessary steps should have been taken in order to prevent such a massacre from happening. The three most important foundations required to fight against violence are: communication, early

to religion” (Pape pg. 9). The Tamil Tigers committed 76 of the 315 suicide attacks. The author

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” (Hitler, Mein Kampf). As time passed, there has been many times in history where a genocide has occurred. A genocide is a one-sided massacre from one party toward an ethnic or different group of people. As genocides occurred, questions such as “Why do people kill?” and “How can people allow these atrocities to occur?” are asked. There have been many theories made up as people researched the reason behind genocides. Throughout different centuries in history, genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Asian genocide, have occurred because of the negative psychological effects on the people caused by propaganda, corrupted leaders, and differences in ethnic groups.

A women by the name of Sheryl Ray witnessed this bombing happen. She claimed at 9:02 that day, “I glanced out of my office window for rain clouds, following what sounded like a very long and loud blast of thunder. The sunny sky I saw quickly contradicted what followed” (Ray). She had said the images were almost unbelievable because they looked so identical to a foreign war torn country (Ray). Ray being a nurse she was allowed into the site (Ray). She claimed, “After showing my business card to a police officer, I was allowed into the area. Hundreds of physicians and nurses, flanked by gurneys, wheelchairs, and medical supplies, stood anxiously outside the hospital’s emergency department waiting for yet another ambulance to arrive” (Ray). The first group of people she saw were the survivors all mangled and distressed, but she claimed they did not make a sound (Ray). This is because no matter how beat up or awful they looked, they were the lucky

Upwards of seventy thousand Tamil civilians were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced (United Nations, 2000). Worldwide it is known as the May massacre and black July. The systematic killings of the Tamils were considered genocide. The United Nations (2000) states, that genocide is the “ [perpetration of] violent crimes with [the] intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”(P.337). The genocide against Tamils has been going on for years and the Sri Lankan government has not been brought to justice. Till this day, the surviving Tamil civilians are kept in concentration camps where many men, women and children get tortured, kidnapped and raped. According to the Sri Lankan government, these camps were made for rehabilitation purposes. David Keen (2014) states that the use of the camp is, “a dramatic practical expression of the fact that the Tamil population as a whole was considered suspect in relation to rebellion and terrorism” (P.10). Even after the genocide and the victory of the civil war, the Sri Lankan government still has not done anything to bring equality amongst its population. Let alone any sort of independence for the Tamil civilians. The newly elected President, Mahinda Rajapaksha opted to take Sri Lanka down an authoritative road (stone, 2014). He has brought other members of his family to governmental positions creating a permanent family line of non-democratic leadership. The instability and corruption within the government will assure that the Tamils will continually be

You have 72 hours to complete this test. While some of the test is fact based, it is mostly a set of critical thinking questions and therefore, this is not a test that is to be done with another individual. Much like a paper, it will go through the same plagiarism detection process. Your answers must be unique. You must also use in-text citations throughout your test and have a reference page at the end of your submission.

“The bombing that night began with a shower of slow-burning incendiaries”- Betty Popkiss as she remembers the horrors that awaited her, that first night.

The National Liberation Army (ELN) was established July, 4th 1964 by college students and a group of radical, Catholic clergy that were inspired by the revolution that took place in Cuba (Stanford, 2012). Since its inception, the ELN have had an ongoing rivalry with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), due to a constant power struggle between the two groups.

Genocide is one of the evillest moral crimes any ruling authority such as a government can commit against its people and it happens more than we think. A general definition of Genocide is the intention to destroy or murder people because of their race, beliefs, or even political and economic status. As we have been taught in this course Raphael Lemkin, created the term ‘Genocide’ 1944. Lemkin combined the ancient Greek word ‘genos’ which means race and the Latin word ‘cide’ which translates to killing. There are many examples of genocide in the world but the most recognizable is that of the Holocaust and how the German powers that be sought and attempted to kill all Jews. A recent example is the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 where the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana caused a violent reaction resulting in mass killings. In efforts to reduce Genocide, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG) was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and was placed in force in 1951. On July 1, 2002 the International Criminal Court (ICC) came into force. The ICC not only accepted the UNCG’s definition of Genocide but expanded it to include crimes against humanity such as enslavement, deportation, torture, rape, enforced disappearance and apartheid. There have been many organizations created throughout the world to defend and prevent genocide and even communities, religions and even colleges are forming organizations and these are just some examples of how

The crime of genocide is one of the most devastating human tragedies throughout the history. And the word genocide refers to an organised destruction to a specific group of people who belongs to the same culture, ethnic, racial, religious, or national group often in a war situation. Similar to mass killing, where anyone who is related to the particular group regardless their age, gender and ethnic background becomes the killing targets, genocide involves in more depth towards destroying people’s identity and it usually consists a fine thorough plan prearranged in order to demolish the unwanted group due to political reasons mostly. While the term genocide had only been created recently in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish legal

The movie points out that when you are injured gravely you go to the nearest hospital, but being turned down while in critical condition has become a norm. The main theme of the movie is how unjust the health care system is to its people . With no insurance, or low income, one will find it very difficult to get medication or the treatment they need and deserve. Those and other issues keep the division of the people .. The sole fact that a hospital can turn somebody down on the spot is a rather scary reality when thinking of the crime rate in Chicago that is responsible for sending so many injured people to the hospital. Many people showed in I Call it Murder were victims of violent crimes, including stabbing and gunshot wounds. It is now easy to see how so many people have passed away during transfers when being moved around with such grave wounds from a weapon. It is sickening that a corrupt system can truly turn somebody down who is bleeding at their door from a traumatic accident. Some things from the movie truly leaves you wondering what really is the deal with the healthcare policies in America. It seems that legislation at that time did care to provide immediate help for the sick and wounded. I would love to know why this is. Maybe

Genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, ethnic, political, or cultural group”. In Rwanda for example, the Hutu-led government embraced a new program that called for the country’s Hutu people to murder anyone that was a Tutsi (Gourevitch, 6). This new policy of one ethnic group (Hutu) that was called upon to murder another ethnic group (Tutsi) occurred during April through June of 1994 and resulted in the genocide of approximately 800,000 innocent people that even included women and children of all ages. In this paper I will first analyze the origins/historical context regarding the discontent amongst the Hutu and Tutsi people as well as the historical context as to why major players in the international

By the late 1960s, Italy had suffered through World War II. It had seen the Vietnam War unfold before them. Furthermore, it had experienced a dramatic urbanization from an agrarian society to an urban one. Such a shift precipitated the appeal for communism. Into this complicated political and socio-economic arena came the Red Brigades. The Red Brigades were an Italian terrorist organization with a strong emphasis on Marxism. Founded in 1969 by radical left-leaning students Renato Curcio and his wife Mara Cagol, the Red Brigades began a reign of terror that . In order to fully assess the impact of the Red Brigades in Italy, it is necessary to answer a central question: why were the Red Brigades so violent? The Red Brigades had ties to

To better understand the atrocities of these wars, one must have knowledge of the definitions of certain terms and war crimes. The ideas of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” are often thrown

For more than 25 years in the late 20th century and into the 21st, the island nation of Sri Lanka tore itself apart in a brutal civil war.  At the most basic level, the conflict arose from ethnic tension between Sinhalese and Tamil citizens.  Of course, in reality the causes are more complex, and arise in large part from Sri Lanka 's colonial legacy.