Wounded Knee Genocide

Between the years of 1915 and 1918 the Ottoman Empire, under the Young Turks began a deliberate program of removing and exterminating the Armenian population; a population already dismantled through previous massacres. The Armenians were a minority in both population and religion. Because most Armenians were Christians, they were made an easy scapegoat in an empire that was mostly Islamic. With the world’s eyes on the First World War, the Armenian Genocide went mostly unnoticed and there were no punishments such as ones received by Germany after the Holocaust. The United States has deliberately avoided the recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in order to maintain an ally in the Middle East and to avoid American genocidal policies,

Not everybody believes in genocides, other may have a different opinion or thoughts. Sometimes people don’t realize its genocide because they believe in what they are doing and they think there is no harm done because it’s not affecting them. To be taken away from your family, to go live somewhere else or to be killed can have a huge impact on your life. Genocides play a huge role in the world; it has and will affect many people. In Darfur there is a genocide going on, it has been going on for a few decades now. Genocide is the mass killing of a race. The people of Darfur and the Government of Sudan didn’t really get along. The Government wanted to do oil exploration where the citizens lived. There was and still is a lot of tension between

The event, known as the Pottawatomie Massacre, is one of honorableness since it was enacted to promote the liberty of the real victims of the time, the slaves. To only acknowledge the five civilians as the targets would be to ignore the history of deaths in the slave community and the then current 3.2 million

“As defined in article 2 of the Convention of the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is any act with intent to liquidate a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group” (“Office of the UN...”1) . Genocide has been an issue around the world for several centuries, and sadly it continues to this day. There is one specific genocide that many historians study, the forced evacuation of the Chechens. Although this may be classified as a relocation, it was declared an act of genocide by the European Parliament in 2004 (Brauer and “Office of the UN…”).

“Genocide” is defined as “the deliberate and systematic extermination of an ethnic or national group”. However, genocide does not only mean straight up murdering an ethnic group. Most Europeans had already “considered themselves superior to Native Americans” (Roark 44). From the time the Europeans entered the land they called the American Indians enemy

Why or why not? Ensure you use the UN’s definition of genocide to support your conclusion.

When people think of genocide, there are many different occurrences that may think of. A significant example of genocide that happened during World War II was Adolf Hitler’s venture to eliminate the Jewish People. This Occurrence may be the most memorable in history, but this event may not have been the first. Many people may think that genocides only happen in foreign lands, the fact is that the very first genocide known in history happened in the very place we are standing on. When the first colonist arrived to America, they believed they were discovering new land. But it was not so, the truth was they were attempting to take over land that was already occupied by people with their own way of life. What transpired after came to be known as “The American Holocaust” (Stannard). It is obvious by the multitude of death and destruction that came to the Native American tribes when the first colonist arrived. The mass annihilation of the Native American

To understand a genocide, one must know what makes a true genocide. Most know that a genocide is the mass extermination of people of a specific race or ethnicity. Other qualifications are the bodily or mental harm to a specific group of people; changing a group of people's conditions of life; sterilization so cannot reproduce; or the forceful removal of children. The Native American genocide that started with the arrival of Christopher Columbus is one of the most tragic genocides to occur on American soil. Not only were Native Americans brutally murdered, but all of the other qualifications of a genocide occurred in 500 year time period.

Genocide occurs in several nations and causes millions of lives to be lost. The slaughter of innocent men, women, and children continue daily, and will happen until the world and its people grow tired of the unnecessary loss of life and work to aid those in need. Darfurians are a prime example of what can happen when ones lives are not valued because of the difference in beliefs.

Genocide, the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic, or nation. This heinous vocabulary term did not exist until the year of 1944 around the time of the holocaust. A Polish Jewish lawyer by the name of Raphael Lemkin created the term in his infamous book, Lemkin on Genocide. Geno- meaning race or tribe from the Greek language, and -cide meaning killing in Latin. He was the man who gave the crime without a title an actual name. (Lemkin, p.g 2)

Genocide is the organized and widespread termination, or attempted execution of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group (www.freedictionary.com). Over 1 million Iraqi’s have been killed in genocide. Genocide in Iraq started in the year 1991, even though many people thought it started in 2003. It is important to think about this problem, because people need to know about the history, and about the struggles people have to endure to keep our country together. It is also important because people need to know what is happening in the world, as of today. The famous Sadaam Hussein is known all around the world for his vindictive acts, leading to genocide. Threats of killing a large number of people have impacted the U.S. and Iraq

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

History has been shown to repeat itself, and if we don't learn from it, we are doomed to repeat it. We have watched many genocides happen within the last decade, some of which the U.S. has intervened, and in some cases where they have not. The United States should not intervene in foreign countries for humanitarian reasons because the U.S. may lack investing the amount of troops and resources necessary to make the intervention successful ; that doctrine will be abused unless there is a self-interest at stake.

To many Americans, the feeling of being a bystander as countries slaughter their own people has been in legal debate since 1933, it has gradually developed into a concept that can be applied in many situations, both historical and contemporary. The meaning of the phrase genocide is the cleansing of a race or ethnicity in a country. There has been evidence that this phrase can be used to describe past and present day massacres being committed around the world and how media has changed its perception on this issue overtime.

Before reviewing past genocidal acts and the United States’ response to them, the people should understand what exactly genocide is. It seems like individuals across the globe have no sense of what goes on around the world, but a lot of times who can blame them. With the next Kardashian Scandal and yet another iPhone releasing, who needs to know much about these developing countries’ issues. Furthering this, it does not help that the press themselves have shown patterns of minimalizing coverage or fluffing up the story, belittling the severity of these acts. Bypassing this, what is genocide? Genocide is the intentional and planned elimination of a group of people, whether it be a racial, cultural, or political group (Merriam-Webster.com, n.d.). This deliberate killing of people that are “different” has occurred many times in history, dating back farther than written language