1. How should people interpret genocide when a document introduces a statement saying, “I heard with horror that a new phase of Armenian massacres…which aimed at exterminating, root and branch, the intelligent, industrious, and progressive Armenian nation, and at transferring its property to Turkish hands?” (Armenian Massacre Memoir document). People here and there encounter historical documents reviewing genocides and wars that happened during certain time periods. Nonetheless, individuals occasionally have a difficult time distinguishing rather an incident was an act of genocide or war. Genocide is an intentional physical or cultural act of destroying/eliminating the population of a specific national, ethnical, racial or religious group (Kiernan).
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In the same fashion, de Las Casas provided an incident of sexual violence where the narrator recounts a Spaniard attempting to fulfil his sexual needs upon a young female in the province of Jalisco by the means of violence. The text states, “One Spaniard, who wished to satisfy his evil lust on a young girl, took out his dagger … cut off the hand of the girl’s mother…When the girl persisted in refusing him, he stabbed her to death” (68). This statement highlights how the aggressor attempted to use intimidation to fulfil his sexually needs but resulted in violent. The perpetrator cutting off the hand of the young female’s mother was a strategy of intimidation. It was to ensure her that an innocent life like her mother can be easily taking away from this earth for no reason. As well as, put fear in her heart that if she decided to challenge/disobey his authority a violent consequence can be inflicted upon her. However, refusing to cave into the Spaniard’s sexual demand resulted in her getting stabbed to death. As a whole, this incident involving the Spaniard’s act of sexual violence reinforces the ideas that his intent to cause bodily harm to members of a particular would be classified as genocide. Taking out his dagger before anything happened was sign that he was prepared to harm someone and was not afraid to do. That Spaniard in particular having that mindset is associated with
In the same fashion, de Las Casas provided an incident of sexual violence where the narrator recounts a Spaniard attempting to fulfil his sexual needs upon a young female in the province of Jalisco by the means of violence. The text states, “One Spaniard, who wished to satisfy his evil lust on a young girl, took out his dagger … cut off the hand of the girl’s mother…When the girl persisted in refusing him, he stabbed her to death” (68). This statement highlights how the aggressor attempted to use intimidation to fulfil his sexually needs but resulted in violent. The perpetrator cutting off the hand of the young female’s mother was a strategy of intimidation. It was to ensure her that an innocent life like her mother can be easily taking away from this earth for no reason. As well as, put fear in her heart that if she decided to challenge/disobey his authority a violent consequence can be inflicted upon her. However, refusing to cave into the Spaniard’s sexual demand resulted in her getting stabbed to death. As a whole, this incident involving the Spaniard’s act of sexual violence reinforces the ideas that his intent to cause bodily harm to members of a particular would be classified as genocide. Taking out his dagger before anything happened was sign that he was prepared to harm someone and was not afraid to do. That Spaniard in particular having that mindset is associated with