Genocide

What if one day, a big boom occurred just outside your house, a plane flew low overhead, and smoke and dust blocked your view? What would you do? Salva Dut was faced with this decision in Southern Sudan in 1985, and many others were as well. The International Rescue Committee, a program in which a board of directors and overseers puts volunteers to work in effort to help refugees and others from foreign countries that are having a tough time. In one of their articles describing the Second…

Many often diminish the action of colonizers regarding the Native Americans after the discovery of North America as a massacre opposed to a genocide. This is often due to the accepted established history of the founding of the United States as being a ‘consensual colonialism’ for the Native Americans which would benefit “them.” This accepted narrative often ignores the injustice committed against Native Americans due to perpetuating the myth of American exceptionalism by labeling of the…

Located in Central America, Guatemala has a turbulent history of violence and oppression. The beginnings of injustice trace back to the Spanish colonists who conquered the Mayans (“Guatemala “The Silent Holocaust”: The Mayan Genocide). Subsequently, the Mayan race became inferior and experienced harsh treatment and exclusion. After gaining independence from Spain in the mid 1800’s, Guatemala struggled to remain stable which led to the overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954 leaving a…

The Cambodian genocide was the result of the Khmer Rouge, which was responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people. They murdered many different groups including the Vietnamese, in and around the borders of the country, the Chinese, Muslim Chams, Buddhist monks, and even some Khmers, that they saw as traitors. They almost exterminated every ethnic group in Cambodia (289). The Khmer Rouge desired for Cambodia to be as they once were in the Angkor Empire, a powerful nation. The Khmer…

The Cambodian genocide is regarded as one of the most brutal mass killings of the 20th century and resulted in the rise of the Khmer Rogue, a communist party in 1975. It is estimated that 1.7 million people or roughly 20% of the population fell victim to the Genocide initiated by this anti capitalist, left wing establishment under the leadership of Pol Pot, a radical socialist. Intellectuals were particularly targeted by the communist party in an attempt to create a classless society centered on…

the setting of precedents; however, it is crucial to understand the intricacies of the definition of genocide is the first step to understanding the law as well as grasping its evolvement through legal judgements outlined in cases before tribunals and courts. Article 1 of the UN convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide states: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which…

One of the largest and most important stages of genocide is dehumanization, and many of the events and aspects of the Cambodian genocide align with the aspects of this stage. During dehumanization, one group begins to deny the humanity of another group. In turn, this allows the group to disparage the victims and progress towards the eventual extermination. Hate propaganda also begins to emerge. The Khmer Rouge believed that only “pure” people were qualified to build the revolution, and targeted…

community just so they can expand theirs. There was starving and dehydrated people due to this. The exact definition of genocide is a systematic, deliberate extermination of national, political, racial, and cultural groups.(Dictionary.com) Which is the exact definition of what the Germans do to the Namas and Hereros in this essay. The main three objectives to remember due to this brutal Genocide are the causes, extents, and effects. There were…

whether the use of nuclear weapons should be prohibited to prohibit genocide. The Court referred to the definition of genocide in the Article II. In the Article II, genocide is a killing act with intention to destroy “ national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” The Court concluded that if nuclear weapons were used to target a specific group, then the use of nuclear weapons should be prohibited in order to prohibit genocide (DRW, pp. 501). b. The Court examined whether the use of nuclear…

clashed along political lines. Past conflict between American Christians and Islamic peoples had its origin in politics, as shown by the violence between Muslim Barbary pirates and Americans in the early 19th century. Politics also influenced the genocide of Christian Armenians in Ottoman Empire, which was predominantly Muslim, inciting mass outrage by American Christians against Muslims. Finally, the 9/11 attacks carried out by radical Islamic terrorists, which renewed a…