Bosnian Genocide

Genocide, the deliberate killing of a mass group of people. Something that some believe couldn’t possible happen in today’s world. As we go about our daily tasks, there is a horrific slaughter taking place in Iraq against the Yazidi people by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). I believe if ISIL were to become aware of their ethnocentricity, there would be an improvement in the genocide taking place. In Iraq, there is a group of people known as the Yazidi. They practice an…

Introduction The term ‘genocide’ did not exist before the Holocaust. Because of this, the Holocaust is often considered to have given rise to the notion of the term, ‘genocide.’ The Holocaust was an extreme form of genocide. Raphael Lemkin coined the term around 1944. He was a Polish-Jewish lawyer. The term came about because Lemkin needed a word to properly characterize the heinous crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators. The Holocaust has an immense lasting impact on the present-day…

All throughout history, people have been slaughtered by their government. They were hated because of their religion, beliefs and diversity. The term “genocide” means the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group, but the term did not exist before 1944. There are 8 stages of genocide according to Gregory H. Stanton: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. The stages are…

A genocide is a horrific killing of a larger number of people. Two instances of genocides is the Killing fields of Cambodia and the Holocaust. In 1995, Cambodia was taken over by a heavily communist group called the Khmer Rouge who wanted to control every aspect of their people’s lives. The leader of the organization was Pol Pot and his intentions were to, “forcibly construct a peasant society”(The Killing Fields). In doing so he killed over two million out of seven million, over 25%, of…

Crisis In China When the definition of genocide was introduced, one single man would soon hold the world record.Genocide is a terrible thing to start with but when it comes to more than millions, and the world's most powerful countries have their heads turned that is when true chos can happen. Mao Zedong's rule led to the mass extermination of the chinese people as a result of ruthless oppression, extermination campaigns, and failed “cultural revolution policies”. Mao Zedong was obsessed with…

semester, we had to write a paper on what Genocide meant and the cause of Genocide. In that paper, I stated that I know a little bit about Genocide because of the media but I don’t know anything as to how it had happened or the causation. In the media, it mainly focuses on the Holocaust and Genocide in Darfur but there seems to be no discussion on other Genocide that had happened or happening. I was surprised to learn about the Armani Genocide and Cambodian Genocide because it was never been…

“Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.”—Michael Ignatieff These words of wisdom distinctly target an issue that remains controversial in today’s society—genocide. The word “genocide” was first termed by Raphael Lemkin, both a victim…

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…

”). In 1945, the United Nations was formed after the Holocaust with the intention of preventing future genocides and world wars. Since the formation of the organization committed to the ending of mass murders, there have been numerous genocides worldwide("The Formation of the United Nations"). Although the United Nations has been successful for the most part, they have been ineffective in achieving their goal of the avoidance of another Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred between 1933 and 1945.…

South Sudan is the world’s newest country as they gained hard-fought independence in 2011. The team that worked together to gain this sovereignty soon became divided upon their success as president Salva Kiir accused his vice, Riek Machar, of planning to overthrow him. Machar then reacted by publicly calling for the overthrow of Kiir as he jailed several respected South Sudanese politicians for their supposed plan. In other words, a civil war emerged in December of 2015 and a clear ethnic divide…