Genocide

In February of 1994, the president of rwanda, who was a hutu, named habyrimana (spelling?) was in a plane when it was shot down, and the hutu extremists, who did not like the tutsi, used this as an excuse to start mass killing on the tutsis, because they blamed them for the killing. this, however, was not the probable case. it is more likely that the plane was shot down by hutus who did not like the fact that habyrimana was working on a peace treaty with the tutsis. this is not the only proof of this; before the plane was shot down, radio stations would call tutsis cockroaches, and talk about killing them. it is more likely that the whole thing was planned, and they wanted to have ethnic cleansing agaist the tutsis, and this gave them the excuse. of course, before this happened, you have the british who controlled the area before, and allowed the tutsis, who were the minority, to rule the government, so most of this was started when they put them in power and eventually left, and the government went to the majority hutus, who wanted revenge.

He had at least one. A daughter who was a teenager at the time of his death. She is visible on the footage of his house arrest and later, his cremation. Chillingly, Ta Mok (Pol Pot's successor) says that he doesn't know what to do with her.

Genocide is made up of the Latin word gens or gentis, meaning birth, stock, race, and the Latin word cidium (French: "cide"), meaning killing. Together it means literally "Race Killing."

There is a very long history of conflict in Rwanda which was first settled by Hutu people from the tenth century, but from the fourteenth century they became dominated by the Tutsu people migrating to the area. They established a monarchy in the fifteenth century and then a unified state in the late nineteenth century. So this very prolonged historic dominance of the majority Hutus by the minority Tutus is the root cause of the bitterness between these two ethnic groups in Rwanda which has dominated Rwanda's whole history.

Bitterness intensified in 1959 when the Belgian Mandate was in control when the Hutu population rebelled against Tutsu domination resulting in the King and 150,000 Tutus fleeing Rwanda. Rwanda then became a Republic in 1961 and achieved independence in July 1962 under a Hutu President. But he was overthrown in 1973 in a military coup led by Major General Juvenai Habyarimana who took over as President.

After armed Tutsu exiles repeatedly attempted to invade Rwanda in the 1960s and 70s but were repulsed by the Hutu army, continued conflict left thousands dead over a period of ten years. Then in October 1990 they again invaded the country taking control of parts of north Rwanda. The Rwanda government reneged on a 1992 peace agreement and the Tutsu led Rwanda Patriotic Front or FPR advanced on Kigali and forced government to recommence negotiations.

Then after President Habyarimana died in a plane crash, this sparked off the most terrible massacre of both the Tutsu minority and moderate Hutus by the army and militia. 800,000 were massacred in 3 months, millions fleeing to neighbouring countries. A government report in 2002 stated 1,074,017 people, of whom 93% were Tutsus were killed between 1990 and 1994. the country has since achieved relative stability under the FPR but bitterness between the two peoples remains below the surface.

the cambodian war happened in 1971 and ended in 1985.

The Bosnian genocide took place in Bosnia.

After the Rwandan President's plane was shot down in 1994 it caused the the Hutu's to rebel, 6,000 strong in the violent executions of the Tutsis. It wasn't until 1996 that the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) seized control of the country and the killings stops. 1994-1996

A "massacre" is an event where many people are killed indiscriminately. A massacre is a slaughter of many people in the same type of religious group or race.

Yes, the Armenians were subject to genocide by the Ottoman Turkish government. About 1.2 million Armenians were slaughtered in 1915-1917.

They need a strong leader who can unite the Rawandan people.

There were a number of tribunals for some of the Serbian war criminals who committed the genocide in Bosnia and others are actively being hunted down.

Sudan is an example of Genocide in 21st Century. It happened after almost 6 decades after 2nd world war and Holoucast of the Jews by Nazi Germany.When after world war II, leaders all over the world are doing so much for peace, try to avoid war, ethnic conflicts. Now a genocide occured in Darfur. African brother killing African. Muslims killing Muslim. And a state President (Umr al Bashir) sponsors it with Janjaweed Militants. As a result many were killed (95% peaceful, innocent people), million displaced (flew to Chad, basically).

And we just watch. UN didn;t recognise the killing as Genocide. US people did a lot, but not the Government.

But in the EYES of the CONCIOUS PEOPLE all over the world. Its a killing, a massacre, its a Genocide.

About 200,000 Guatemalans where killed or "disappeared" in the forty years following the CIA coup in 1954, which installed a US backed military junta. The bloodiest phase of this repression occured in the 1981-1983 period, durin which, Guatemalan security forces massacred between 100,000 and 150,000 Guatemalans, mostly native Mayans accused of being leftist insurgents. The US government provided massive shipments of arms and provided training to aid in this "counterinsurgency" effort, which by the UN's definition constituted genocide, as it's primary targets where Mayans.

The Armenian Genocide ended when the Armenian community on the Eastern part of the land beat the Turkish in the battle of Sardarabad, consequently ended their killing rampage on Armenian soil. Most of the Armenians in western cities were killed in a systematic killing by ethnicity and many cities captured by the Turks. However the Armenian Genocide has not truly ended because the Turks still deny that this great atrocity happened and the last stage of genocide is denial. Also Armenians in Turkey are still being killed for speaking their mind about the events of 1915. Recently an Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was killed for reporting about the Armenian Genocide.

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'Armenian Genocide' ended because what was intented as 'genocide' was done. What was intended was to isolate Turkish and Armenian populations which were nearly between a civil war. As Armenians were only %20 of these provinces in East they were deported to Russia and todays Syria. In 1922 Turkish Nationalist Army won against Democratic Republic of Armenia thus a peace treatry is signed.

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Today's Armenia was in Russian rule at that time. Dont answer if you dont know. The Armenian Genocide is being caimed to be happened in East of Turkey. Russia was also occupying 3 cities that were later given up after Brest-Litovsk.

The cheyenne and arapaho indians, and colonel John chivington and his men.

The Tutsis lost 800,000 to 1 million people, massacred by the Hutus. More Tutsis lived in a country near Rwanda and their rebel group(the Rwandan Patriotic Front) attacked and gained control of Rwanda. The Hutus fled to Congo and the surrounding areas to live in refuge camps. At first they boasted about their killing but later found that it was risky business. Tutsi survivors in Rwanda wanted to bring the guilty to court but the Hutu aids wouldn't and couldn't separate killers and the non-killers. In Arusha, Tanzania, International War Crimes Tribunal has set up a system to try the genocide leaders, at this point there has been many leaders found guilty, but without death penalty and 40 more to be tried. At the end of 2001 around 125,000 prisoners, crammed into overcrowded jails, still remained to be tried.

Examples of genocide include: Armenia in WW1 by th Turks; The dispossession of the American Indian by the US in the north & Spain in central & south america; The concentration camps in WW2; The treatment of their neighbours in recent years by Serbia; Rwanda;

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They realized they could do nothing to stop it and wanted to bring their own people to safety.

The Armenians were a Christian people living in the predominantly Muslim Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. About half of them lived in Eastern Anatolia, where they were mainly smallscale farmers. Some of the other Armenians were clustered in the main cities of Turkey in Europe, especially Istanbul. It is said that these urban Armenians did many of the jobs that a reasonable level of education and were better off than most Turks (and envied). The Armenians were a very 'easy' target for politicians looking for scapegoats. In some respects there were similarities between the Armenians in Turkey in c. 1894-1922 and the Jews in Germany in 1920s, but one shouldn't make too much of this. In 1915, during WW1, some Turkish nationalists, such as Talaat, claimed that a number of Armenian units had changed sides and gone over to the Russians as fewllow Christians. Talaat Pasha (and others) thereupon unleaashed the Armenian Holocaust. It is prefectly clear that there had been some planning beforehand.

Also, there are many people in Turkey denied that the genocide of the Armenian people existed. Also, the US was advised of this genocide by the US ambassador to Turkey, Henry Lowenthal.

Genocide is the systematic elimination of a specific ethnic group by a government, and genocide happened in World War II in the obvious way, the Holocaust, which was the murder of millions of Jews by Hitler and Nazi Germany.

He was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and the de facto leader of Cambodia in mid-1975. During his time in power, Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian collectivization, forcing city dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects, toward a goal of "restarting civilization".

The combined effects of slave labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people, approximately 21% of the Cambodian population.

By some views he ranks behind only Hitler and Stalin as the worst mass murderer of the 20th century.

Tribal warfare that resulted in the Rwandan Genocide of the 1990's is believed to have its roots in class warfare. Cattle farming favored by the Tutsi is more profitable than the lower class and lower paid classic farming of the Hutus. Jealousy over perceived economic advantage and a history of colonialists placing Tutsis on a higher social level is believed to have fueled classes between the two tribes in the past.