Bosnian Genocide

Genocide is defined by the united nations as any of the following actions committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another…

March 2016 Genocides of Carthaginians and Spartans The word genocide was first coined in 1944 CE by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish writer, who combined ‘geno-’ from the Greek word for race, and ‘-cide’ from the Latin word for killing. Genocide, a killing of a race. Genocide has been defined as the “intentional destruction “in whole or in part, [of] a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such” (Kiernan 51). There are many similarities and differences between the Carthaginian genocide by…

to prevent future genocide from occurring. When Elie Wiesel was explaining the reason why he wrote the Night he said, “The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.” (Preface, page xv) Elie Wiesel was a witness and a survivor of the Holocaust. He wanted his younger generations to know the horrific events that occurred to the Jews and did not want any more genocides to happen in the…

The genocide of the Tutsi minority of Rwanda only spanned for one-hundred days, yet the death toll amassed almost 1,000,000 people; where the vast majority were massacred with machetes. Consequently, to achieve this atrocity, much of the Hutu population were…

answer the question, was the Nigerian blockade of Biafra an attempted genocide? In order to answer the question, examples from There Was a Country and the BBC documentary on the Nigerian-Biafra Civil War, to determine if the war tactics of Nigeria during the civil war meet the definition of…

In Sudan, there was a genocide of more than 300,000 people in Darfur from 2003 to 2010. There has been several attempts to inform others through different types of media, but information is still not widespread. Majority of the United States was uninformed about this occurrence. The people of Darfur were being killed for the resources such as oil that was in their land. The types of media used to express the genocide of Darfur had differential advantages and disadvantages. The poem, “Tears…

According to Times of Malta, in December 2013 peacekeepers and soldiers were assigned to protect citizens in the Central African Republic due to the violence between Muslims and Christians. The rebel group, "Seleka" took power from the north and Christians began to blame the entire Muslim community for crimes committed by them. Currently, there are 535,000 refugees many who are women and children displaced by this war. However, instead of diffusing the situation French soldiers have only made it…

religions have been an issue since civilization created the religious mindset. However, in Sudan, conflicts have risen between people of the same religion. For instance, the Darfur genocide was a tremendous altercation between Muslim Arab Sudanese and Muslim black Sudanese. According to the Human Rights Council, “the genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people.” This racial inequity has been present since 1955, erupting violence throughout Sudan and causing…

The Horror in Darfur Violence. Terror. Suffering. Death. These words have described the status of the African country of Sudan since 2003, the beginning of the Darfur Genocide. This conflict, carried out between the Sudanese government and rebel Darfur forces, is a serious world problem that desperately needs attention. It has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and the United Nations has predicted that, as of today, more than 300,000 people have been killed as a result of…

take over a country by force. However, this is not the case. Comparative studies have been conducted between genocides of the twenty and twenty first century cases of genocide and four conditions have commonly been found to have been present. It has been proposed that if one of these conditions is present, genocide occurring is a possibility. If all four conditions are present and genocide occurs, it will be extremely deadly. The first condition is the presence of group hate which has been…