Genocide+in+the+World+Since+the+Holocaust

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 * 1) ** Define the term and its origin **
 * **Genocide-** the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
 * Etymology - 1944, apparently coined by Polish-born U.S. jurist Raphael Lemkin in his work "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe" [p.19], in reference to Nazi extermination of Jews, lit. "killing a tribe," from Gk. //genos// "race, kind" (see //**[|genus]**//) + //**[|-cide]**//. The proper formation would be //*genticide//.
 * 1) **Bosnia[[image:Bosnia.jpg caption="Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina"]] **
 * (1992 - 1995) 200,000 Deaths
 * Bosnia is a small country that came from the break-up of Yugoslavia  a country of many cultures, such as the Serbs (Orthodox Christians), Croats (Catholics), and ethnic Albanians (Muslims).
 * Yugoslavia was created after World War I by the Western Allies.
 * In the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosnia), genocide was committed by the Serbs against the Muslims.
 * The Serbs set out to “ethnically cleanse” Bosnian territory of Bosnian Muslims.
 * The Serbs attacked the Muslims with Yugoslavian military equipment and surrounded the capital city of Bosnia, Sarajevo .
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Snipers were used to shoot civilians walking in the street.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Muslims were driven into concentration camps where women and girls were regularly raped and other civilians were tortured, starved, and murdered.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">As many as 1 million Muslims in Bosnia were forced to evacuate their homes. <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">[[image:serbia_anxiously_awaits_world_court_ruling_on_bosnian_genocide_suit_pic_large.jpg width="378" height="259" align="right" caption="Serbia Anxiously Waits for World Court Ruling on Bosnian Genocide"]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many people have been found guilty for genocide during the Bosnian War (about 30 people), however, after several plea bargains and some convictions, only Radislav Krstić has been found guilty of genocide by an international court.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Four have been found guilty for genocide in Bosnia by German courts, one of whom was Nikola Gorjic, who lost an appeal against his conviction in an European Court of Human Rights.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many other courts have found people guilty for genocide in Bosnia such as the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The ICTY has issued a warrant for the arrest of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic for many charges including genocide.
 * 1) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Rwanda <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.4pt;">the 1994 mass killing of around 800,000 of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by the Hutu government. The Hutu occupied the country, until Europeans and Tutsis arrived. Europeans brought money and paid the Tutsis to maintain their land. The Hutu lost power and needed an opportunity to regain land. In 1994, the Rwandan president's plane was shot down and was immediately blamed on the Tutsis. Unlike the Holocaust, they did not try to keep this a secret. The //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Interhawme, // <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15.4pt;"> those who fight together, had organized the massacre by placing thousands of people in schools or other public places. Almost 1 million people were killed by use of machete or club.
 * 2) **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">Darfur,Sudan- **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">over the last five years, over 400,000 Darfurian citizens have been killed. 150,000 of these people were killed directly by the militia, which is instructed by the government. 2.8 million people have been displaced within Sudan, and 80% of those are young women used as sex slaves. On September 9th, 2004, the US declared the actions in Darfur were genocide and the worst of the 21st century. [[image:Darfur_Destroyed.jpg]]
 * 3) **<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Cambodia **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9px; line-height: 27px;">Happened between 1975 and 1979
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.9px; line-height: 27px;">Lon Nol took over the country using violence
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fought a civil war with the Khmer Rogue for the leadership of the country.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Khmer Rogue Regime led the assaults of the people and was in the hands of their leader, Pol Pot.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Decided to try to implement the Chinese way of Communism. Made everyone work on farms and in factories and shut down some schools, offices, and even some hospitals. Anyone who didn't agree was to be eliminated.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Forced people out of their homes and tryed to move them as far away as possible and discouraged relationships between two people.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Banned religion, killed all Buddhist monks and burned the temples.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Killed teachers, engineers, military men, scientists, doctors, and lawyers. Killed people for knowing foreign languages, wearing glasses, laughing or crying.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Those who escaped were worked to death, given little rations, and became ill and weak very quickly.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1.7 million people died which was 21% of the Cambodian population.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genocide http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=genocide** http://www.yale.edu/cgp/ http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia1.html ** http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-darfur http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/bosnia.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Genocide (picture) http://www.hmh.org/ed_Genocide_Bosnia.shtml
 * Resources
 * http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_rwanda1.html