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?

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