PPT-Genocide

Ms Chelsea MUN Whats the difference in this situation A bomb planted on an airplane explodes and kills everyone on board There was an attack on a movie theater 10 casualties An attack is planned to wipe out a minority ethnic tribe in Sudan. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism. Ancient Genocides. The Armenian Genocide. The Holocaust. Apartheid. Rwanda. Ethnic Cleansing in Yugoslavia. Darfur. Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Racism Project. A. ny . of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, . ethnic, . racial or religious . group: . (a) Killing members of the . group . (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the . UN Peacekeeping. Josh . H. ombrebueno. Background. Before the 1960’s, Rwanda was ruled by the country of Belgium. The Belgians favoured the ethnic group known as the “Tutsis”, who made up 15% of the nation’s population, because they looked more European than the other ethnic group known as the “Hutus”.. Drilon Statovci. English 9-1. Genocide Project. 2/27/14. Bosnian Genocide Information . In April 1992, the government of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared its independence from Yugoslavia.. Article: “Why is the Twentieth Century the Century of Genocide?”. Author: Mark Levene. Source: Journal of World History 11, no. 2. (Fall 2000). Online Source: Bridging World History. -The article seeks to relate the specific phenomenon of genocide to broader processes that have helped create and shape modern international society. By: Cecilia, Elizabeth, and Anton 802. By: Cecilia. Introduction to Rwandan Genocide. What was the Rwanda Genocide ? . The . Rwanda Genocide involved the Hutus and the Tutsis. From April to July 1994, people of the Hutu ethnic majority killed approximately 800,000 people, a large percentage of the Tutsis ethnic minority. The genocide began by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal . By: Calvin Miller and Jack Shepherd. Background. Bosnia . makes . up a triangular-shaped republic, about half the size of . Kentucky. It is located on the Balkan peninsula in Europe. The region . in the south is largely . www.instituteforgenocide.org. info@instituteforgenocide.org. Important reasons and demands to establish IGC. Unfortunately, we live in times when the human freedoms and rights . are violated . more and more, with the intention that these are defined . Perpetrators . When: April 1992-December 1995. Who: Bosnian . Serbs led by . Slobodan Milosevic. Slobodan Milosevic . (1941- 2006). President of Serbia . Radovan Karadzic. (1945-present). Supreme Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army. (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. When: . March 23, 1982 . – . August 8, 1983. Who: Guatemalan dictator during civil war. Efrain Rios . Montt. (1926 – Present). Dictator of Guatemala . Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez. (1946 – Present). on April 6, 1994, and for . the next . hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes . It was sparked . by death of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on April 6, 1994. Rwanda. History/facts:. 85% of Rwandans are Hutus but for most of Rwandan history the country was dominated by the Tutsi minority.. Tutsi in early Rwandan society were in charge of the cattle while Hutu tended the land. . onomic stressors during a ten year period. In this section I will inve ethnic violence: the symbolist political theory developed by Political Science scholar Stuart Kaufman, and the rational choice th