Bosnian Genocide

killing hostages, destruction of towns, waging war, and slaughtering the Yazidi people. This is encompassed under crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against peace, and genocide. Thus, Baghdadi should be subjected to life imprisonment for the conduct of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. In conclusion, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should be tried in International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, peace, and of…

Norman Naimark argues in Stalin’s Genocides that the dekulakization, the Holodomor, attacks on enemy nationalities, and the purges of 1937-38 purges should all be classified as the “crime of crimes”: genocide. Currently the four events are simply viewed as massacres or mass killings of a gargantuan scale. He goes further to assert that it was Stalin alone who facilitated and enabled these genocides to occur. By reclassifying them as genocide, Naimark hopes that Stalin’s crimes will finally get…

North Korean Genocide The genocide in North Korea has been happening for decades, evidence of these camps has been traced back to the end of the Korean War in the 1950’s. Ever since the first reports of these labor camps, the U.N has done little to nothing to stop them as well as the death happening inside of them and that is why the genocide in North Korea is being ignored by the rest of the world. The things happening in North Korea have not been labeled officially as “genocide” by the…

control the fate of those either proximate, or psychologically important to the doctor. Finally, the most dangerous form of power pursued by some of the doctors was societal, driven largely by ideology. The Nazi doctors who sought societal power used genocide as their means to achieve it. The medical experimentation program was no more than a small part of an overall plan; these doctors used medicalized killing to reconfigure the human race, thereby changing the history of mankind. In effect,…

In book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park a character named Salva describes, “The soldiers fired their guns into the air and chased the people away from the camp… They are driving us back to Sudan,”(Park 75). This showed a community not accepting someone. In Ethiopia, they were driving out foreign refugees, rejecting them, just like the community did right when Ha, a character in the book “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, showed up, but in a more forceful way. This relates to Ha…

Death is ubiquitous, taking numerous manifestations and meanings. Whether it being the conclusion of a cycle or the genesis of another, there are many interpretations. In Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, death is a paramount theme. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is a traveling salesman who awakens one day as a giant insect. He then endures a series of abuse propagated mainly by his father, but which does not exclude his mother and sister, until his death one morning. The death…

Defining Genocide In this paper I want to define both evil and genocide, and determine whether or not the act of genocide is an evil act. I will first define evil, and give some characteristics of evil acts. I will then give a brief history of the man who coined the term genocide, and his fight to make acts of genocide illegal worldwide. I will then give several other scholar 's definitions of genocide, along with various characteristics. I will conclude my paper by determining whethor or not…

Genocide in Human History Compared to Unwound Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Genocide has been a prominent part of human history and changed the course of the world multiple times, creating wars and tearing down governments that had been corrupt. Usually occurring in places where people need a sense of leadership or change, the first recorded genocide was the annihilation of the inhabitants of an island called Melos…

pain, but she knew this day was going to come, so she ran. A genocide in Sudan has been occurring for a while now, it started on February 26, 2003 and it is still happening to this day. The “Darfur Genocide” refers the Janjaweed militia in Sudan that, “systematically destroy Darfurians by burning villages, looting economic resources, polluting water sources, and murdering, raping, and torturing civilians”(“Darfur…

achieve human rights enforcement to the various controversies that have stemmed from the International Criminal Court. The International Criminal Court was ratified by sixty countries in 2002, and therefore was “authorized to prosecute individuals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity” (pg. 94-95). Even though the International Criminal Court was ratified by a large quantity of countries, it was not accepted by one of the most influential and strongest countries, the United…