http://www.answers.com/genocide?cat=biz-fin Genocide is "The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group." Sometimes religion is included here. Think about it. With the eradication of an entire race you lose people, families, communities, culture, ideas, traditions, ways of thinking... What if it was your race being persecuted. Your brothers and sisters, parents, aunts and uncles, cousins, grandparents, your future children, your best friends, your grandparents friends and memories...
Genocide is important because people can learn from it happening and try to stop future attempts of genocide.
It causes the opposition to fight harder.
The Armenian Genocide is significant because, first of all, it was the first Genocide of the 20th century. Second, the Ottoman empire has nearly destroyed 70% of the Armenian population. Third, it was a mass massacre toward humanity due to the brutality and monstrosity they used to kill the Armenian people. And finally, they used the Armenians religion Christianity as a major cause to kill them.
It is significant because of the unspeakable crimes of genocide that were committed by the Nazis, and the fact that they were so cruel about it. Not to also mention that the holocaust was the most Horrendous documented genocide ever attempted, and unfortunately, was unnervingly successful. They killed off a little over 6 million Jews.
Genocide Genocide
The efforts made by the Cambodian government and the international community to bring genocidal perpetrators to justice were significant.
they stop the genocide at the year of 2002
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
Genocide
The genocide symbol represents genocide. No surprises there.
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
The Herero Genocide was a genocide that was fought between Namibia and the Germans
Typically, a genocide is "certified" by leading academics when a set of circumstances in the world qualifies under the definition of genocide. This is exactly what happened in the Cambodian genocide.
Yes it was.