“Within no time, according to the account of one of the Japanese soldiers, the river and its bank was covered with innumerable bodies, including those of the adults and children. Sources tell us that at least 50,000 people were killed in this tragic incident.” To begin, Genocide is the mass killing of a group and has many individual steps to be classified. In China, during the Sino-Japanese war created conflict in the capital city of Nanking. All eight stages of genocide refer to the Rape of Nanking. Finally, the act of genocide on innocent people is horrific and deserves intervention on the global scale. The Rape of Nanking was directed towards the Chinese Empire by the Japanese Imperial Army indirectly caused by the unfolding of the
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Continuing classification is then described that all cultures have categories to distinguish people into us and them, usually by ethnicity race religion or nationality. The perpetrators give names or symbols to the classifications and they then distinguish them by color or dress. These first two steps don't always result in genocide, it only becomes genocide when it leads to dehumanization. Continuing dehumanization is described as when the perpetrating denies the humanity of another group. The particular target group is saw just as equal as animals vermin or disease. During this stage they start making hate propaganda in print and on radios. This is continued to verify the group of the genocide. The next stage in the genocide process is organization, every genocide is organized and it's usually done by the state and they often use military and other organizations to by decoding or informal directions. Next step is polarization at this stage extremists drive the groups apart from each other. Hate groups, then broadcast polarizing propaganda. Laws are then enacted to stop the marriage of the target group to other races. Extremists then target the moderates and intimidate and silence the center. The moderates could stop the starting of a genocide at this point in the procedure. Step 7 of the genocidal process is preparation. The perpetrators of the genocide identify the victims and separate them because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are then drawn up and members are then forced to wear symbols. Their personal possessions are then expropriated. They are then segregated into camps or the slums of a city and usually starved. Continuing to the second to last step of a genocide is extermination. This is the quickest and begins fast and becomes the mass killing that is described as Genocide to everyone else but the perpetrators consider this an exterminations they
Continuing classification is then described that all cultures have categories to distinguish people into us and them, usually by ethnicity race religion or nationality. The perpetrators give names or symbols to the classifications and they then distinguish them by color or dress. These first two steps don't always result in genocide, it only becomes genocide when it leads to dehumanization. Continuing dehumanization is described as when the perpetrating denies the humanity of another group. The particular target group is saw just as equal as animals vermin or disease. During this stage they start making hate propaganda in print and on radios. This is continued to verify the group of the genocide. The next stage in the genocide process is organization, every genocide is organized and it's usually done by the state and they often use military and other organizations to by decoding or informal directions. Next step is polarization at this stage extremists drive the groups apart from each other. Hate groups, then broadcast polarizing propaganda. Laws are then enacted to stop the marriage of the target group to other races. Extremists then target the moderates and intimidate and silence the center. The moderates could stop the starting of a genocide at this point in the procedure. Step 7 of the genocidal process is preparation. The perpetrators of the genocide identify the victims and separate them because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are then drawn up and members are then forced to wear symbols. Their personal possessions are then expropriated. They are then segregated into camps or the slums of a city and usually starved. Continuing to the second to last step of a genocide is extermination. This is the quickest and begins fast and becomes the mass killing that is described as Genocide to everyone else but the perpetrators consider this an exterminations they