Similarities Between War And Genocide

The connections between war and genocide are so significant and intimately bound that it is often difficult to separate them as so they might be described as Siamese twins. The close bond between the two is evident from the twentieth-century record alone. Some of the century’s classic genocides – against Armenians in Turkey or Jews in Nazi occupied Europe– have occurred in a context of civil and or international war. The Second World War coincided with the Nazi genocide over Jews. The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which directly sparked genocide against the Christian minorities of the Ottoman realm. The wartime context is a necessary explanation to massacre through genocide. There are many different types of wars and they fit into the framework of genocide differently. In civil wars, the new wars, the norms of state sovereignty are less powerful inhibitor than with international war. Civil wars feature an excess of actors and agents, which often make it difficult to determine who is doing what to whom. These actors are often playing up ethnic and particularistic identities. These wars are increasing the complexity of the conflict suppression and humanitarian intervention. Civil wars may come to strengthen war-related humanitarian assistance, which can also …show more content…
“That’s war” becomes the excuse for extermination (Textbook, p. 83). Traditional sources of information, communication, and denunciation are foreclosed or rigidly controlled. One historical example of this is in the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire. For instance, in 1915, the Allies staged an attempted invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli. During nine months of attacks, the Allies sought to reach the straits. Turkish resistance stopped every thrust, in which the Allies withdrew. It is likely that if the Gallipoli campaign had succeeded, the genocide against the Armenians would not have occurred, as war increases the amount of fear and hatred in