PPT-Holodomor Famine - Genocide

in Ukraine 19321933 Prepared by Maria Kiciuk PhD and Oksana Kulynych Chair US Holodomor Education Committee Objectives To examine Stalins reasons for the Holodomor and his policies leading to it. Setting the stage for disaster. Introduction. The famine killed 1 million people and forced another 1 million to leave. . Most of the land in Ireland was owned by British landlords who rented it to Irish farmers for large amounts of money.. By Leah, Caitlin and Charlie. Emigration. Many people felt there was no future and very little hope in Ireland.. Those with a small amount of savings went to Britain.. About 1.5 million went to the United States of America.. By . Caoimhe. Leonard.. . The Great Famine Of 1845.  .  . Blight . i. n . t. he . p. otatoes was the cause of the famine. . Background to the Great Famine. The potato was the principal source of nutrition for . Genocide- the deliberate systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. Examples of Genocide throughout history. Rwanda. Kosovo. Irish Famine. Armenian . 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”.. By Robert W. Carleton. Population before the famine. In 1800, some five million people lived in Ireland. By the Autumn of 1845, when the great famine struck Ireland, there were more than eight million.. Allyson Roper. Period-6. 2/27/14. Located in Sudan. Omar Bashir took controll and started to create problems between farmers and nomadic Arib tribes. Omar was power hungry. Janjaweed militia would attack villages and killed 400 villages. An Górta Mór. T. he Great Famine. : Some key dates . 1845. 9 September:. Potato blight first reported in Ireland . 9-10 November:. British Prime Minister Peel authorises importation of Indian corn. Perpetrators. When: April 17, 1975 – January 7, 1979. Who: Khmer Rouge (Marxism/Maoism). Pol Pot. (1925-1998). Secretary General. Khmer Rouge Co-Founder. Leader of genocide. Khieu. . Samphan. (1931-present). BY ESTELA BABARSKAITE P7. THE POATAO FAMINE. .. The . potato . famine.  of 1846 to 1852 hit Ireland and Scotland. Many poor people grew potatoes for food. Potatoes grew on poor soil, even in wet and cold conditions. Bridget . O’Donnel. and her children . (. from Illustrated . London . News . 1847). Cormac . O’Gráda. , . Famine: A Short History. (2009). The Russian famine. of 1921. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/sara/oddments/russianfamine. What is Genocide?. 1. “When is something killing versus genocide? . 2. How do we measure it and define it?”. 3. This is the “spectrum of violence.”. Least Harmful -------------------------------------------------------------- Most Harmful . .. Charlie Walsh. Aisling O'Reilly. Sophia Hickey. Mia Flood. Hannah-Jane Downey.. What is a Famine?. A Famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several factors including war, population imbalances and crop failure which caused Ireland's Famine in 1845. The potato blight was caused by a fungus called . Stephen Devereux Lewis Sida and Tina NelisAugust 2017t21br261630r2216r26251829r222616267256292630222925The Humanitarian Learning Centre HLC is a joint initiative of the Institute of Development Studie