PPT-What is Genocide?

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 . Perpetrators . When: April 1992- December 1995. Who: Bosnian Serbs, Slobodan Milosevic. Slobodan Milosevic . (1941- 2006). President of Serbia . Radovan Karadzic. (1945-present). Supreme Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army. 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. 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”.. 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.. 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. 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 . 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. Dr. Julia . Viebach. The Data Dialogue: When Research Crosses Borders, Oxford 29 September 2016. Outline of Research. Two Interlinked . P. rojects. : . Memory . and Transitional . Justice in . Rwanda. . 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. .