Rwandan Patriotic Front

“Khojaly Genocide” Abstract: This essay tells how the city of Khojaly with population of 7000 people was targeted by Armenian armed forces in February 1992. Armenian armed forces that were helped by 366th CIS regiment destroyed Khojaly city. 613 innocent people were killed, among them there were 63 children, 106 women. The goal is to show the brutal actions of Armenian armed forces against Azerbaijanis who were unarmed and killed with brutality. They were burned alive, heads were cut off, had…

Throughout history, many genocides have taken place all over the world. One of those being the Cambodian Genocide in 1975 to 1979. According to Yale´s Genocide Studies Program, this event ¨was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century.¨ In 1975, approximately one fourth of Cambodia's population was killed. The rise of the communist power, Khmer Rouge, caused the country to fall into horrible devastation. All people who opposed the Khmer Rouge’s visions were tortured and killed. The…

Juliette Dougherty ELA 12/Sec. 08 Ms. Diamond 31 March, 2018 Hester Prynne's transformation throughout The Scarlet Letter Justine Sacco sent out one tweet, and that was all it took to ruin her life. From the time she sent the tweet, to the time she stepped off the plane in Africa her entire life had changed. The entire world's eyes were on her, and they were intent on ruining her life. She lost her job, her face was plastered all over the media as a racist, and she was receiving death threats.…

When people hear the word “genocide”, they typically think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is one of the most renowned genocide in the world, the Cambodian Genocide, on the other hand, is just as significant. From 1975 to 1979, the Cambodian genocide took place during the Khmer Rouge regime. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, whose ultimate goal was to shift Cambodia into a “utopia”. In order to achieve this goal, Pol Pot had his soldiers propel people out of their homes into…

The siege of Sarajevo, the longest in the history of modern warfare, began on April 5th 1992 and ended on February 29th 1996. During the four years, the politically motivated Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, dropped an average of 377 shells every single day causing damage to over 64% of the buildings and over 100,000 apartments. The Bosnian Serb army also used the hills surrounding Sarajevo to its advantage by placing snipers there who targeted…

Hotel Rwanda Cross Cultural Paper Lonnie Young III University of Detroit Mercy Professor Vancamp Cultural Anthropology 25 October 2015 According to the Ebrary article “Order of Genocide Race, Power, and War in Rwanda,” Straus (2008) stated that “Genocide is ultimately about how ordinary people come to see fellow citizens, neighbors, friends, loved ones, and even children as “enemies” who must be killed.” This means that people dislike other people because of their race, gender, education, and…

Ethical behavior is evident in the film Hotel Rwanda. Ethics guides morality as it gives vision to our action, but ethics is more interested in the good that humans tend toward, such as happiness and freedom (HRE4M1, Sept.15). Throughout this film a great massacre happens, yet there are displays of ethical behavior. This composition will focus on the display of ethics through the experience of contrast, duty, and the face of the other. Immanuel Kant theory of deontological ethics explains that…

Almost without a doubt Indifference is worse than Hatred, Hatred can be fought against a total lack of any thought, compassion... it's like fighting with a bunch of soft pillows; Nothing much is accomplished, other than spewing feathers about the place ,Indifference is far worse than "hate". If one "hates", they still feel something. They still feel strongly enough to care enough to "hate". Hate takes lots of energy, thought and feelings. When a person is indifferent. They simply do not care.…

The Canadian Armed Forced members join in the United Nation peace mission. Later on, other nations such as Canada joined along to participate in the mission to bring peace to Somalia. After the Second World War, Somalia became one nation in 1960 as they were once colonies of Europe. This brought conflicts in Somalia. The civil war and famine spread out through the entire country. In the mission, hundreds of thousands had died in the war. In 1995, the peace mission was a failed. Government of…

All ages and races welcome, over 900 people occupied an idealistic socialist community in the jungles of Guyana called Jonestown. In November 1978, the entire population had perished. What was the purpose of Jonestown and what influences did Jim Jones have on his followers? As the People's Temple grew during the 1960s, Jones became obsessed with the idea of Marxism and he started to preach about an imminent nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War. He gave a date on which the 'apocalypse' would…