Bosnian Genocide

As I read through the article, I saw that there was a lot of fighting and conflict between South Sudan and North Sudan. To start off we have their economy. As South Sudan is now separated that means that they now have their independence. Which is a good thing, although with that, their previous peace accord made in 2005, had expired. That peace accord had a huge impact on their economy, it stated that they got 50% of the earnings from their oil. And with that their economy was mainly based on…

“Cruelty is at the heart of genocide. The killers just don’t eradicate the targeted people, but brutalize them in ways that far exceed what is needed to kill them.” – Jonah Goldhagen A quote from the narrator of Genocide: Worst the War, that I find critical for the discussion regarding the politicizations of genocide. Choosing two examples—the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian— I examine how paramount the power of ‘naming’ is, examine how depoliticizing…

The story of the Darfur genocide is one not told often. It is the story of a war, in a South African country where around half a million people died. This war began in 2003 and continued until 2010. Many people have tried to get the word about the dying country out to other countries and people who can help through the means of poetry, song, photography, and videos. All of these means of communicating have advantages and disadvantages to them, however the video communicated the information the…

live? Consistently bombed and nuked everyday? That’s the life of the Darfur men, women, and children. It is still a mystery today to why this is happening. This Genocide is “being carried out by a group of government armed and funded Arab military.” Their motive is unclear, people believe it’s of jealousy or just for fun. The Darfur genocide is about a the government against the Darfur people. The military would destroy the Darfur by, looting their towns, murdering or torturing families, and…

you know what a genocide is? According to Webster’s Dictionary a genocide is “the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.” There is a total count of thirty documented genocides in history. Twenty-nine of them are recognized by the United States as a genocide and one is not, also known as the Armenian Genocide The Armenian genocide is familiar to some but not many, as of 2015 should the United States recognize this as genocide? Armenia, was…

The International Criminal Court should have an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir since he supported Arab militias, indirectly committed genocide and did not wish to help the civilians of Darfur. The Janjaweed, the Arab militias that committed many crimes against humanity, were supported by al-Bashir’s government. In February 2004, “Janjaweed militia wearing government uniforms attack[ed] a boarding school in Tawila, Darfur forcing 110 Zaghawa girls to strip naked at gunpoint before conducting…

Darfur is where one of the biggest civil wars take place in Africa at the time wiping out around 30,000 people and still is ongoing to this day. In 2003, Africans in Darfur started a revolt against the government of Sudan which lead to the Darfur genocide. The government of Sudan retaliated back by hiring Arab Militia to raid Non Arabic villages. Their purpose was to eliminate all non-Arabic’s from their community. They did this by burning their villages, taking their resources, polluting their…

Cambodian Genocide was a genocide supported by the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer, Khmer language; or red Cambodia, representing Communism) after they overtook the government, as they labeled this genocide as a “Re-Education Program” for anyone that did not agree with their politics, as their re-education was working in forced labor camps, or if they could not do that kind of work, being killed on the spot. The Cambodian genocide was a genocide only targeting the people of Cambodia. Genocide was a…

Genocide: noun: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Holodomor was a man-made mass genocide that affected millions of people in Ukraine between the years of 1932 and 1933. It all started when Joseph Stalin tried to create a new policy, the collectivization policy. The end goal of this new policy was to increase the productivity of farmers by removing them from small farms and relocating them to much larger farms and using…

Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Tutsis, Bosnians, Croatians, and Darfuri are all victims of mass murders, also referred to as genocide. All of the genocides corresponding to these people have all happened in less than 100 years. How could we have let this many people suffer? All of these people have suffered, but they will not be the last. Genocide will never be stopped because, people hate each other, people follow others, and people do not always follow the laws that are put in place in their…