PPT-What is Genocide? The term was first used by Rafael Lempkin in 1944 in his book,

Axis Rule in Occupied Europe The word is a hybrid consisting of the Greek word genos meaning and the Latin suffix cide meaning . s father was a wealthy Virginia plante Washington fought in the French and Indian War Washington fought in the French and Indian War led disorganized poor ly funded Continental army in led disorganized poor ly funded Continental army in the Revoluti 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. Perpetrators. When: 1915 - 1922. Who: The Young Turkish Government. . (Nationalism). Ismail . Enver. Pasha. (1881-1922). Member . of the Young Turk . Triumverate. Genocide Organizer. Mehmed. 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”.. Aim: What was the impact of the tragic events in Rwanda? . Do Now:. What does the word “genocide” mean?. Write about a time and place where “genocide” occurred.. What is Genocide?. Genocide means actions committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.. 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. 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). 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. Day of Deliverance . By the spring of 1944, Germany had occupied France and much of the European continent for almost four years. A narrow stretch of water, the English Channel, was all that separated the German forces from Great Britain.. (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. “. 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. Stokes Letters Activity. Operation Overlord. By 1942 the Americans and the British were considering the possibility of a major Allied invasion across the English Channel. . Operation . Overlord was the codename for the Allied invasion of . Rwandan. Great Purge. genocide. genocide. The . systematic and purposeful . destruction. . of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group. Systematic and . purposeful. Destruction: . large scale annihilation; .