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U.N. Definition of GenocideEst. December 1948
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the 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 within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Armenia
• CBS• Battle Over
History(12:14)
Armenian Genocide 1915
• Victim- Minority Christian Armenians• Persecutor- Majority Muslim Turks• Why? Armenians sided with allies in WWI• Methods? Forced deportation, death march,
railways to camps, starvation, disease, murder• Impact? ~1.5 million dead• Response? Covered by wartime, still denied
Cambodia
PBS FrontlineWorld
Pol Pot’s Shadow(25:00-full)
(9:30 overview)
Cambodian Genocide 1975-79
• Victim- Vietnamese, Chinese, Muslims, foreigners, educated elite
• Persecutor- Pol Pot & Khmer Rouge (communist)• Why? Agrarian Utopia, citiesfarms• Methods? Relocation, starvation, overwork,
execution, ‘killing fields’ = mass graves• Impact? ~2 million killed (25% of population)• Response? UN support of coalition gov. against
Vietnamese communists, 2006 war crimes trials
Rwanda
History of Tensions(3:14)
BBC coverage(2:56)
Rwandan Genocide - 1994
• Victim- Tutsi minority (cattle owners)• Persecutor- Hutu majority (farmers)• Why? Colonial powers support Tutsi, Post-
Colonial Hutu majority had power wanted to maintain it
• Methods? Clubs, machetes, tools- killed in churches
• Impact? 800,000+ killed in 100 days• Response? Minimal internationally
Bosnia
Bosnian Genocide 1992-95
• Victim- Bosnian Muslims• Persecutor- Christian groups, Slobodan Milosevic• Why? Territorial shifts and disputes post WWI, Bosnia
gains independence Milosevic angered and attacks to support Serbs in newly independent Bosnia
• Methods? Ethnic cleansing as Serbian troops move in• Impact? ~200,000 killed, 2 million refugees• Response? NATO peace keeping, force cease-fire,
ethnic cleansing shifts to Kosovo, Milosevic caught for war crimes but died in his cell
Darfur
History of Conflict
Darfur Region of Sudan Genocide 2003-present
• Victim- Small ethnic groups/farmers• Persecutor- Government, Janjaweed (herders)• Why? Uprising against government, government
created Janjaweed, conflicts of land and resources (political power in North, resources in South)
• Methods? Rape, displacement, organized starvation, mass murder, threats to aid workers
• Impact? ~400,000 killed, 8 million refugees/aid• Response? ICC issues warrants, country divided,
continued conflict
‘Crimes Against Humanity’ in North KoreaUpfront Article Response
Do other countries have a moral obligation to intervene when a nation commits crimes against humanity within its own borders?
Defend your argument using evidence from the article in addition to your own reflection (1 well developed paragraph)