Humans, as a species, have an insatiable desire for equality. All throughout history, there are cases where people are killing their brothers and sisters just to ensure that they themselves are the ideal human model. These killings often remain hidden from those who are not present in the country where the horrible mass murders are taking place, unless it is brought to the public’s attention. The Cambodian genocide is no exception to this phenomenon. In 1975, a group called the Khmer Rouge took over the Cambodian government with the intent of creating a communist utopia (“The Cambodian Genocide”).…
The question I have wanted answered since reading earlier in the year. Why does genocide occur? What conditions cause or allow it? Through watching “Watchers of the Sky”, I was able to learn many new significant things about genocide…
Dzungar, Circassian, Armenians, Holodomor, Jewish, Cambodians, Rwandan and Darfur. All too many genocides. When will it stop? When will we learn? When will we stop forgetting about the past and when will the history books end the patterns of genocide?…
Sadly less than half of those people actually made it out of the country safely. Even with the genocide starting five years ago we were not able to control it then (at its weakest part) and we won't be able to control it now, because nobody tried to help and be an upstander in this…
The ethnography on “The Saltmen of Tibet” by Ulrike Koch is a brilliant film of one of the last nomadic Tibetan population living a Pre- Consumeristic lifestyle on the harsh regions of the Himalayas, rather then the typical lavourish Canadian consumeristic lifestyle. This film is remarkable because the Saltmen are able to survive in such a barren place with little commodities. Once a year the Saltmen pilgrimage to salt lakes, which lasts months, in order to extract salt. The salts that the Saltmen extract are the backbone to their livelihood because they trade salt for the commodities they need, and it is a sacred journey that has spiritual and traditional meaning towards them.…
After reading the Night and hearing about other stories related to genocides it is important to think about ways on how to prevent genocides in the future. Although there is not elusive way to intervene in order to stop a genocide once, it is in the extermination stage there are ways to teach citizens, religious entities and political forces how to be alert and recognize the important predictive factors that can lead a country to a genocide. Knowing how to recognize the main predictive factors allow civilians, police force, religious entities, and political forces to become active during the early stages of a genocide by working collectively on prevention strategies. It is imperative to maintain a level of attentiveness to what is happening in our…
Whenever genocide occurs many lives are lost and massive tolls become unbelievably unimaginable and for what cause…
Genocide is one of the many things today that is so hard to prevent. The word genocide comes from the Greek word geno-, meaning race or tribe, and from the Latin word -cide, meaning killing. The genocides range from the Armenian genocide, the genocide in Darfur, in Rwanda, the Holocaust, and so much more. Raphael Lemkin, the person who came up with the word genocide, came up with it because he wanted to describe Nazi policies of systematic murders and the other crimes against humanity. Genocide occurs because of the people who think it is okay to kill off an entire group that is different than theirs.…
"First you lose yourself, then you lose your dreams." Sometimes, the world worries about problems only as they arise: procrastination of the fight for world peace. By the time things happen; though, it is almost always too late to fix it. One of these problems is genocide. People can take "preventative measures" all they want, but until humanity begins paying attention to little things that happen, no problem can be solved.…
Genocide in Human History Compared to Unwound Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Genocide has been a prominent part of human history and changed the course of the world multiple times, creating wars and tearing down governments that had been corrupt. Usually occurring in places where people need a sense of leadership or change, the first recorded genocide was the annihilation of the inhabitants of an island called Melos which was attacked by the Athenian army in 416 BCE. Moreover, in the 20th century alone there were seventeen different genocides that were conducted by various groups and power players. ADD MORE ABOUT THE FIRST GENOCIDE…
Still Abuse Genocides have always been an intricate and complex topic to debate. A genocide is trying to intentionally exterminate a race, religion, or any other ethnic group. The fact that people even have to discuss the terrors that humans commit against each other and that those horrors are still occurring is shocking. One of the most known genocides is Hitler’s Holocaust, but there are many others before and after that have also had a profound detrimental effect on humanity.…
INTRODUCTION Cambodia, which has fewer people but larger land used to be peaceful and nonaligned. But the genocide occurred by surprise, “The dead are crying out for justice. Their voices must be heard. It is the responsibility of the survivors to speak out for those who are unable to speak, in order that the genocide and holocaust will never happen again in this world” (Pran 10). The terror shrouded the country and silently influences people’s life.…
The Cambodian Genocide The Cambodian genocide lasted from 1975-1979 and killed “approximately 1.7 million people” (Kiernan). The Cambodian genocide was run by the “Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale“ (Kiernan). The Khmer Rouge’s goal during this genocide was to fix society by limiting religions and races. During the genocide “Certain minority groups were singled out for persecution and even extermination” (ABC-CLIO).…
Hatred and atrocities between nations has always been a common occurrence, and violence is a side effect of this hatred. There are many well-known genocides that have taken place around the world, including the Holocaust, Armenia, and Bosnia. There are also devastations that not so many people know about, or have even heard of. The Cambodian Genocide is a mystery to many, being it isn’t widely researched. The killing fields of Cambodia “(1975-1979)”…
Therefore, it is not possible for the World to solve the problem of genocide. Genocide is too widespread to be easily shut down. For instance, as shown in Document K: in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries there were twenty one instances of genocidal acts, the majority of which were killed by government. One of the largest amounts of slayings was carried out by the Nazi government between 1939-1945 with a total of 12,000,000 killed, but there were other massive killings all over the World.…