Tragic Evidence: Arthur Volupides Genocide

¬¬Marissa Bracey World History and Voices Ms. Phillips & Mr. Cline May 5, 2015 Holodomor: The Eight stages of Genocide Genocide is a term that was created in 1944 to describe violence against a specific ethnical, racial, national, or religious group with the intent to destroy or wipe out that entire group. This is an unfortunate event that has caused millions of casualties and left even more in grief. The famine-genocide of Ukraine took place over the span of 16 long years, killing over 7 million farmers and families, over one third of the lives lost were children. Joseph Stalin is to blame for the horrors caused in Ukraine, his communist ways and power hungry drive allowed him to force millions of farmers out of their land and into poverty.

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.

In the picture, it shows Arthur lying on his back and his feet are on the stairs facing east. This doesn’t add up because Queenie had said that he was coming down the stairs for another drink. If you fall while coming down the stairs, you either fall face first or with your head on the stairs. The picture clearly shows that that was not the case and further proves that Queenie is not telling the truth.

Queenie Volupide had the opportunity and motive to murder her husband. Investigators noticed many odd things about the crime scene. To begin with, Mr. Volupide was lying in a face up manner. This is noticeable because examiners are acutely aware that the victim should be lying on their stomach if they had fallen down the stairs. Next, the glass that Mr. Volupide held in his hand was not shattered. It is an instinct for an individual to try to grab onto something when falling, so, why was it still in his hand? It was stated that Mrs. Volipide was alone with her husband for ten minutes, as a rule shattering her alibi.

This is an attempt to unravel the tangle by an objective and empirical examination of information from crime scene and post mortem examination of the victims. Pre-digested information such as speculative newspaper reports, and statements from witnesses other than those called in a professional capacity have been avoided since theirs is largely subjective testimony that confounds more than it informs.

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

We believe Queenie Volupedis staged an accident to cover up for her murder. We arrived at the Volupedis home at 1:30 AM to find Queenie standing with a shocked face in front of her dead husband lying at the bottom of the stairs, glass still in hand. Food was cooking on the stove when we arrived, and everything besides Queenie’s husband was still intact. Queenie reported Arthur slipped and fell down the stairs. The autopsy reported Arthur died from a head wound and had been intoxicated. To begin with, Queenie still had a shocked face when the investigating team arrived, even after speaking to her friends and staying that way for 30 minutes. As a rule, people do not go back into shock after coming out of shock. This shows that Queenie had tried

Throughout American history, different types of explorers from other continents have settled in this nation. By the seventeenth century, the amount of English settlers had increased tremendously, while the Indian settlers who were Indian chief, Powhatan, had decreased from 14,000 to 600. More than 95 percent of Powhatan’s settlers was exterminated due to the decrease in population of the Indian settlers. The author of this passage explains how, due to the diversity, the amount of tribes and settlers that escaped and were exterminated was high and it had a negative impact on them.

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 the 1900’s one of the most harrowing of Genocide’s occurred in the Ottoman Empire the Greek Genocide. What was the Greek Genocide? The Greek Genocide was the removal of Christian Greeks during the first World War. The accusations to begin killing the Christian-Greeks lasted for nine years. Beginning in 1914 ending in 1923 killing over one million Greeks.

After analyzing the crime scene and gathering information, the Investigative teams has come to conclude that Queenie Volupides was lying and steps must be taken to learn more about Arthur's death.

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

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.

What is the name of the horrid conflicts that cause the mass killings of millions? What is the thing that scars people mentally and physically? The answer to all of these questions is Genocide. There are genocides going on in every part of the world today whether or not we know it. One widely known genocide is the Jewish Holocaust. Hitler killed, tortured, and traumatized millions of people during his time of ruling in Germany. Genocides have an outcome of millions killed, thousand displaced and many more haunted. There are several factors that contribute to genocide, but most have the common bases starting them: religious, ethnicity, and greed.

In the Rwandan genocide, 800,000 people were killed over the span of three months. In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, the atrocities that the extremist Hutus committed can never be forgotten because the victims, the government, and the perpetrators were all affected. In Rwanda, the people have been scarred by the horrors they saw and the family members they lost. The government and economy of Rwanda were non-existent immediately after the genocide but, they have made strides to rebuild themselves to a state better than before the genocide. Justice in Rwanda was obtained by the establishing of Gacaca courts and help from the ICC. The Rwandan genocide’s aftermath left the country in rubble as today it is still trying to rebuild.