Bosnian Genocide

Viewing rape as weapon of war also produces issues which feminists in the early 1990 's have highlighted. It arguably presents, "rape as genocide" which may potentially, "might erase less exceptional forms of violence against women" . Copelon (1994 in Buss, E.D 2009:149) This amiably creates an 'exception ' to war time sexual violence, as it labelled as genocide, meaning the attention of preventing sexual violence in the future is diverted. The prosecution rate of the Rwanda tribunal 's are…

“reactionaries,” which was the term dubbed unto those who did not accept Mao Zedong’s strict Communist rules. The actions by the Chinese in Palden’s book were clearly genocidal in his point of view, but depending on the definition people apply to genocide, this may not be so. From the perspective of the Chinese, they believed they were liberating the people of Tibet from the exploitive upper class, which is a admirable idea on paper with no hint of genocidal intentions. Nor could other countries…

Throughout history, many genocides have taken place all over the world. One of those being the Cambodian Genocide in 1975 to 1979. According to Yale´s Genocide Studies Program, this event ¨was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.¨ In 1975, approximately one fourth of Cambodia's population was killed. The rise of the communist power, Khmer Rouge, caused the country to fall into horrible devastation. All people who opposed the Khmer Rouge’s visions were tortured and killed. The…

When people hear the word “genocide”, they typically think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is one of the most renowned genocide in the world, the Cambodian Genocide, on the other hand, is just as significant. From 1975 to 1979, the Cambodian genocide took place during the Khmer Rouge regime. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, whose ultimate goal was to shift Cambodia into a “utopia”. In order to achieve this goal, Pol Pot had his soldiers propel people out of their homes into…

According to the Ebrary article “Order of Genocide Race, Power, and War in Rwanda,” Straus (2008) stated that “Genocide is ultimately about how ordinary people come to see fellow citizens, neighbors, friends, loved ones, and even children as “enemies” who must be killed.” This means that people dislike other people because of their race, gender, education, and more. In the last few decades, genocide has occurred in several parts of the world. The word genocide means that a certain ethnic group…

there will be more atrocities. If nobody stands up for victims, then the victims will continue to be hurt and brutalized. A society should never turn its back on the countries that are involved in war. It should build more organizations such as a genocide education and prevention organization in order to raise the awareness of the dangers of indifference. In that case indifference could be worse. It kind of shows a loss in humanity. Through hatred, no matter how it's conceived, still shows…

Carl Wilkens is the director of World Outside My Shoes and upstander in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was the only American that stayed throughout the 100-day massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and tries to protect his friend in Rwanda and the kids that lived there and help the people living in Kigali during the brutal times of war. The genocide was the result of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death in a plane crash in 1994, according to the United Nations. A Hutu himself…

It was not until I was in tenth grade that I was exposed to the Rwandan Genocide. This event happened only a year before I was born, yet I had never heard of it. It was only in an integrated English and History class that the tragic events of 1994 became known to me. Two other classmates and I were given the task of researching, gathering the facts, and then teaching our fellow students about the atrocities that took the small country of Rwanda by storm. While other groups were learning and…

Muedini IS 470 21 April 2016 The Armenian Genocide: Ignored but Not Forgotten Gandhi once said, “The enemy is fear. We think it is hate;but, it is fear.” Maybe fear is the motivator of hatred, and fear of the other drives discrimination, mistreatment, and violence. This fear can lead to tension between different groups of people such as different ethnic groups, especially in the cases of majorities and minorities. In the case of the Armenian Genocide, fear of the other brought about the…

Mass genocides have taken place throughout history and formed the world that we live in today. With the mass number of civilians slaughtered during the Darfur Genocide you may ask yourself, why all the killing? How is this carried out, and what was done to help. The Genocide in Darfur has claimed over 450,000 lives and has caused chaos in millions. In Darfur there are over 100 tribes and with these tribes there comes tension. The conflict in Darfur is one between Arab and non-Arab. In 2003…