Ethnic cleansing

Is Israel Guilty of Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide? For a while now, the Israelis and Palestinians have been dealing with a conflict over land. To very briefly sum things up, the Palestinians want more land. Palestine is a stateless nation, and the only land the Palestinians have is the Gaza Strip and the Western Bank. The land the Palestinians want is occupied by the Israelis, and they definitely do not want to give anything up. Israel is a Jewish state, but the opposing side has a Muslim and…

between the government forces led by current president Salva Kiir representing the Dinka tribe and a rebel group led by former Vice President Riek Machar. The war has terrorized many citizen centers and populations due to what many are calling an ethnic cleansing. They transformed from a political war to a tribal war specifically targeting…

The Armenian Genocide was an atrocity that took place during World War One. It features the Armenians as the victims and the Turks as the oppressors. Although the death toll is not official because of the conflicting results regarding it, there was somewhere in the neighborhood between one to one and a half million Armenians that were slaughtered, starved, or tortured to death between 1915 and 1923. However, some people in Turkey deny the killing of the Armenian people and even are so extreme…

people for the purpose of achieving some type of goal. This goal could include vilifying an enemy during wartime so that young men are encouraged to enlist in the military or demonizing a group of people to turn the population against them so that ethnic cleansing is easier to carry out. Both of these goals were pursued during the American Revolution and in Nazi Germany respectfully, and during the time before the actual violence broke out. Propaganda can play a significant role in the theory of…

lost their ethnic identity and uniqueness. After all, variety is the spice of life, so the loss of these rich cultures was definitely a disadvantage to the Age of Imperialism. In conclusion, the Age of Imperialism was not beneficial to the world as a whole. During this age, less advanced countries were taken advantage of by European empires, causing ‘bad blood’ between nations. This ‘bad blood’ has been known to have led to World War I, and in-turn, World War II. Also it lead to many ethnic…

"What if identity is exclusively ethnic and not national at all?" (R. Radhakrishnan, 121). A contested concept brought to light in R. Radhakrishnan’s exploration of ethnicity in an age of diaspora. The query itself implies a rigid dichotomy between ethnicity and nationality; it probes the reader to wonder whether these concepts belong in conjunction with one another or merit opposing entities of their own. In R. Radhakrishnan’s dissertation, Ethnicity in an Age of Diaspora, he asserts that…

Over time, there have been many acts of ethnic and religious violence, and many are closely tied with strong feelings of nationalism in the people performing those acts. Ethnic cleansing is done to create a more homogenous region, and feelings of nationalism and ethnic pride would make someone much more willing to act violently against other ethnicities if they have excessive pride in their own. Ethnic and religious violence are influenced by strong feeling of nationalism and pride in one’s…

The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority group that has lived in Myanmar for centuries. Today, more than a million of Rohingya people are living in Myanmar, mostly in the western coastal state of Rakhine. They use their own language, and they have their own culture. However, Rohingya people claim that they have a long historical connection to Rakhine State. There are many conflicts and clashes between the Rohingya and the government, as well as some other ethnic groups in Rakhine. When Myanmar…

Ethnicity, race, and nationalism are interrelated. We cannot define one concept without elaborating how the other concept plays a crucial role to shape up its agenda. Such as, Nationalism derives from ethnic beliefs, and from cultural religious similarities. Nationalism deliberately supports it 's deeply enrooted believes towards ethnicity. However, race plays a significant role to distinguish the differences between ethnicity and race itself. Due to that, people feel a sense of identity, in…

Heazle 2011, p. 84). Nationalism succeeded its mission of liberating Asians from the colonials. It 's further stated in ‘Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945’, that "religion and language are …source of cohesion – and division”, in Indonesia, ethnic Javanese have dominated the state since its independence but since most of the population share Islamic ideologies, it unites the people and creates a common ground of understanding (Kingston 2016, p.…