Bosnian Genocide

There were three major events that the Indians fought against British rule. The initial incident was the massacre at the Golden Temple, or the Amritsar Massacre. This concluded in 1,200 wounded and about 400 dead Indians. The following disturbance was the homespun movement, or the boycott of British clothes. The act of defiance lead to the killing of police and the congress to stop protesting. The final conflict was the salt march. There were 60,000 arrests and Indians beaten brutally. These…

1. How should people interpret genocide when a document introduces a statement saying, “I heard with horror that a new phase of Armenian massacres…which aimed at exterminating, root and branch, the intelligent, industrious, and progressive Armenian nation, and at transferring its property to Turkish hands?” (Armenian Massacre Memoir document). People here and there encounter historical documents reviewing genocides and wars that happened during certain time periods. Nonetheless, individuals…

Rwandan Genocide History has seen its share of civil wars, massacres, and failures. The most violent, perhaps, of the crimes have occurred more recently, in the 20th century. As war “etiquette” has relegated, the atrocities committed against human beings have evolved. A new manner of channeling anger and hatred of a certain group arose; genocide. The Armenian genocide was one of the first crimes committed against an ethnic or religious group. The deaths experienced, however, does…

Genocides are an unforgettable part of a country’s history and unfortunately the universe has a bad name for repeating it. In history, there have been many genocides, some worse than the others. However, a couple have hit the bullseye, when it comes to being the worst genocides known to man. The Holocaust, mainly along with the Armenian genocide has caught the attention of people all over the world for various reasons. The author of “The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story”, Diane Ackerman captured…

Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, by Jean Hatzfeld, is the second book that he composed about reports of the events of the Rwandan genocide that occurred in spring of 1994 in a small African country called Rwanda. The first book, Into the Quick Life: Stories from the Rwandan Marshes, Hatzfeld tells of the events that took place during the genocide but from the perspective of the Tutsi survivors. Machete Season, on the other hand, tells of the events from the Hutu killers’…

That choice ended in the death of American soldiers, which flipped the public opinion completely against humanitarian intervention, according to Darren Brunk in “Curing the Somalia Syndrome: Analogy, Foreign Policy Decision Making, and the Rwandan Genocide.” This…

As tension and conflict grow within the Congo, Anatole and Leah help ensure that the tragedy of the hunt is carried out among the Congo community in Barbara Kingsolver’s, The Poisonwood Bible. They come together in many different aspects and help influence each other to try to persuade the people of the Congo to agree with them. When Leah demands answers from Anatole on whether he thought she should be in the Congo, Anatole exclaimed that, “There are more words than no and yes” (Kingsolver 310),…

The Rohingya crisis The Rohingyas are an ethnic minority group in the western region of Myanmar, accounting for two thirds of the population of the Rakhine state. They are a religious and linguistic minority from western Myanmar according to the United Nations The 1 million Rohingyasare different from the Muslim majority linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and religiously. Myanmar was ruled by the military for over 50 years and during that time period it adopted a lot of racial policies…

policemen were commanded by an ethnic Yoruba officer (Major Okuntimo), who couple of months prior had headed a group of a joint task force of military and paramilitary policemen that ousted the rebellious youths from their home base. The then President, Olusegun Obasanjo an ethnic Yoruba himself reacted to the killings by requesting that Bayelsa State Governor, should produce the perpetrators within a fourteen days span for indictment and possibly prosecution. The president further decreed…

tells the story of a girl whose life was torn apart by war and conflict. The story illustrates the struggles and experiences of Sano Halo (her real name is Themia), who was robbed of a childhood as a result of the genocide of Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenians living in Turkey. This genocide, which was not well known and even denied, occurred during or after World War I. The story is littered with parallels to the Holocaust, most notably—the concentration camps mentioned, the Turkish officers that…