There were three major events that the Indians fought against British rule. The initial incident was the massacre at the Golden Temple, or the Amritsar Massacre. This concluded in 1,200 wounded and about 400 dead Indians. The following disturbance was the homespun movement, or the boycott of British clothes. The act of defiance lead to the killing of police and the congress to stop protesting. The final conflict was the salt march. There were 60,000 arrests and Indians beaten brutally. These…
In the article titled,“They fled Boko Haram and famine - and then they were forced back,” author Kevin Sieff highlights issues surrounding events of what the United Nations has termed “forced returns” of thousands of refugees, specifically in the case of Nigerians in Cameroon. Sieff informs readers of the thousands of Nigerians that have fled their villages and homes to seek refuge in Cameroon, escaping violent attacks of the Islamist extremists, Boko Haram. Upon escaping, Nigerian refugees are…
Rwandan Genocide History has seen its share of civil wars, massacres, and failures. The most violent, perhaps, of the crimes have occurred more recently, in the 20th century. As war “etiquette” has relegated, the atrocities committed against human beings have evolved. A new manner of channeling anger and hatred of a certain group arose; genocide. The Armenian genocide was one of the first crimes committed against an ethnic or religious group. The deaths experienced, however, does…
news. That choice ended in the death of American soldiers, which flipped the public opinion completely against humanitarian intervention, according to Darren Brunk in “Curing the Somalia Syndrome: Analogy, Foreign Policy Decision Making, and the Rwandan Genocide.” This…
As tension and conflict grow within the Congo, Anatole and Leah help ensure that the tragedy of the hunt is carried out among the Congo community in Barbara Kingsolver’s, The Poisonwood Bible. They come together in many different aspects and help influence each other to try to persuade the people of the Congo to agree with them. When Leah demands answers from Anatole on whether he thought she should be in the Congo, Anatole exclaimed that, “There are more words than no and yes” (Kingsolver 310),…
The Rohingya crisis The Rohingyas are an ethnic minority group in the western region of Myanmar, accounting for two thirds of the population of the Rakhine state. They are a religious and linguistic minority from western Myanmar according to the United Nations The 1 million Rohingyasare different from the Muslim majority linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and religiously. Myanmar was ruled by the military for over 50 years and during that time period it adopted a lot of racial policies…
policemen were commanded by an ethnic Yoruba officer (Major Okuntimo), who couple of months prior had headed a group of a joint task force of military and paramilitary policemen that ousted the rebellious youths from their home base. The then President, Olusegun Obasanjo an ethnic Yoruba himself reacted to the killings by requesting that Bayelsa State Governor, should produce the perpetrators within a fourteen days span for indictment and possibly prosecution. The president further decreed…
Genocide Task Portfolio Essay There has been multiple genocides in this world some are unapproved or denied but people still say they are genocide. What is a genocide? A genocide has a lot of criterias, the first one is (a) killing members of a group (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births…
Doubt, Keith. "Evil and the ritual of shame: A crime against humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Janus Head 7.2 (2007): 319-331. Doubt uses a sociological lens to examine the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, stating that the root of ethnic cleansing lies in an “attempt to transform the public identities of individuals and a community.” (Doubt) This means to debase an individual or group into a lesser being(s) in the eyes of the witnesses, or the world community. This is the essence of how sociologists…
Hunter Littleton 2-5-18 D Hour Cambodia Genocide 1. The people who were targeted for genocide were the people who were lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers, scientists and professional people in any field - including the army. Even if Pol Pot suspected someone for any reason he had them murdered, and their families. Minority groups were also targeted, like Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai, or if they were part of those groups. Half the Cham Muslim population was murdered,…