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Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group Killing members of

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Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members

of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of

life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part

Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

Nazi Germany – Adolph Hitler

Exterminated 6 million Jews 5 – 11 million – Poles,

Romanians, Soviet prisoners, Soviet citizens, people with disabilities, gay men, political prisoners

1930’s – laws banning Jews from schools and jobs

Destruction of Jewish synagogues, business, and homes

Established concentration camps

Relocated Jews to ghettos Medical experiments

Prisoners rounded up Transported to camps Selected

To the right, worked to death

To the left, the gas chambers

CHELMO

TREBLINKA

SOBIBOR

BERGAN BELSEN

April 6 – mid July 1994 Conflict between Tutsis and

Hutu’s Hutu’s murdered at least ½

million Tutsis and moderate Hutu’s

Little international effort to stop the violence

Killing stopped when Tutsi rebel, Paul Kagame seized power

Hutu’s fled to nearby Democratic Republic of Congo

Led to Congo wars Violence between Tutsis and

Hutu’s also in Burundi

Formerly part of Yugoslavia 2 states, BH and Republic of

Srpska Three ethnic groups

BosniaksSerbsCroats

Serbs kill 7,500 men and boys over 13

Mainly Muslim Called ethnic cleansing

Who – The people of Darfur What - Genocide When – Now Where – A western region of

Sudan Why – Ethnic or racial identity How - Genocide

Since 2004, 2.5 million driven from their homes

300,000 dead 1,600 villages destroyed by

Sudanese Gov’t. 200,000 refugees in Chad