There is an almost universal archetype the International Community employs regarding the role women play in atrocities such as genocide, with this archetype women are as solely victims and almost never perpetrators. The lack of punishment for female perpetrators is often a result of gender bias, women who do find themselves defending against a charge utilize this gender narrative to escape punishment, which is usually successful.
The reaction concerning female perpetrators of genocide whether to castigate them or excuse them, is often in relation to motherhood. The role of women is often reduced to that of a mother, as any other role concerning a women in many parts of the world even today cannot be possible. Following the Nuremberg Trial, …show more content…
Beatrice Munyenyezi when charged with her actions in the Rwandan genocide used a gendered defense by explaining that she was “incapable of committing such acts-as a woman and mother.” (Deem, Slide 38)
In Cambodia under the power of the Khmer Rouge party, many women acted as both perpetrators and victims in the genocide. Motivated by trying to rapidly establish an industrial powerhouse the Khmer Rouge party targeted social class in their genocide. Female victims of the genocide included any person who could feasibly work in the labor camps. Chin Meth was responsible for forcibly extracting anything from villages that were plundered before being forced to work in the labor camps where she was starved and beaten. She serves as a witness in many of the criminal proceedings against party elites, however, despite being perpetrators of genocide herself the International Community would never associate her with the likes of Erna …show more content…
Unlike the Nazi Holocaust which carried out the genocide across both genders through equally brutal and horrific tactics, the Armenian genocide was carried out between both genders differently. The Armenian genocide and it recounts from survivors presents the issues with the creation of an overarching definition, as it often excludes the tactics and policies implemented specifically targeting intended ethnic groups. Gendercide, the targeting of a specific gender for ethnic cleansing, is present in the Armenian genocide and plays a huge role in the policies implemented by the Ottoman
The reaction concerning female perpetrators of genocide whether to castigate them or excuse them, is often in relation to motherhood. The role of women is often reduced to that of a mother, as any other role concerning a women in many parts of the world even today cannot be possible. Following the Nuremberg Trial, …show more content…
Beatrice Munyenyezi when charged with her actions in the Rwandan genocide used a gendered defense by explaining that she was “incapable of committing such acts-as a woman and mother.” (Deem, Slide 38)
In Cambodia under the power of the Khmer Rouge party, many women acted as both perpetrators and victims in the genocide. Motivated by trying to rapidly establish an industrial powerhouse the Khmer Rouge party targeted social class in their genocide. Female victims of the genocide included any person who could feasibly work in the labor camps. Chin Meth was responsible for forcibly extracting anything from villages that were plundered before being forced to work in the labor camps where she was starved and beaten. She serves as a witness in many of the criminal proceedings against party elites, however, despite being perpetrators of genocide herself the International Community would never associate her with the likes of Erna …show more content…
Unlike the Nazi Holocaust which carried out the genocide across both genders through equally brutal and horrific tactics, the Armenian genocide was carried out between both genders differently. The Armenian genocide and it recounts from survivors presents the issues with the creation of an overarching definition, as it often excludes the tactics and policies implemented specifically targeting intended ethnic groups. Gendercide, the targeting of a specific gender for ethnic cleansing, is present in the Armenian genocide and plays a huge role in the policies implemented by the Ottoman