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The memorandum contains important evidence on the forcible removal of children to China Above all they have made thousands of homes unhappy by forcing young boys and girls to go to China for denati. 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. 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”.. Ms. Chelsea, M.U.N.. What’s 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. 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.. 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 . 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. Dr. . James Waller. Cohen Professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies,. Keene State College (NH). Academic Programs Director,. Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. e-mail: jwaller@keene.edu . Perpetrators. When: April 6, 1994 – July 15, 1994. Who: Hutu-led government and Hutu extremists. Theoneste. . Bagosora. (1941-present). Chief of Staff, Ministry of Defense. Established . Interahamwe. 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 . (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. Definition. The International Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide . defines . ______________________ as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such. “. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”-. Adolf Hitler (in justifying his plan to eliminate the Jews of Europe). Armenian Provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Background of Armenia. 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. What is Genocide?. The word has a specific meaning. Genocide is. Acts committed. With the intent. To destroy (in whole or in part). A group of people. Based on a specific characteristic of that group, such as.