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Genocide
Questions about the deliberate and systematic mass killing of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. Famous genocides include the Holocaust, Dafur and Rwanda, and even the Crusades.
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Who were the victims in the Rwanada Genocide?
The Tutsis mainly, but some Hutus were also victimised and killed.
Were the perpetrators of the genocide against the Iraqi Kurds brought to justice?
Partially. The first major trial against Saddam Hussein was only focused on one particularly large attack perpetrated against Shiite Muslims in the southeast of the country (the Dujail Massacre).
As for the Al-Anfal Campaign (which is the "polite" term for the Genocide of Iraqi Kurds), in December 2006 Saddam was put on trial for the genocide during Operation Anfal. The trial for the Anfal campaign was still underway on December 30, 2006, when Saddam Hussein was executed for his role in the unrelated Dujail Massacre.
The Anfal trial recessed on December 21, 2006, and when it resumed on January 8, 2007, the remaining charges against Saddam Hussein were dropped since he was now dead. Six co-defendants continued to stand trial for their roles in the Anfal campaign. On 23 June 2007 Ali Hassan al-Majid, and two co-defendants Sultan Hashem Ahmed and Hussein Rashid Mohammed were convicted of genocide and related charges and sentenced to death by hanging. Another two co-defendants (Farhan Jubouri and Saber Abdel Aziz al-Douri) were sentenced to life imprisonment, and one (Taher Tawfiq al-Ani) was acquitted on prosecution's demand.
Al-Majid was eventually hanged on 25 January 2010.
What are the intentions of genocide perpetrators?
The intention is to destroy (that is kill, murder, wipe out) an entire people, ethnic group, race or nation - or at least a very large section of one.
Who is responsible for genocide taking place in each country?
Each genocide has a different provacateur. As a result, it is important to identify which genocide is being discussed. In larger genocides like the Holocaust, the individual countries had different individuals who were charged with being responsible for the genocide.
Where was the Texas chainsaw massacre filmed?
The original movie (1974) was filmed in Austin, Round Rock and Bastrop, Texas (wikipedia.org).
Why was the Texas chainsaw massacre created?
The story was mostly inspired by real life murderer, cannibal, alleged necrophiliac, and grave robber Ed Gein, who lived in an isolated house in Plainsfield, Wisconsin. The real story is far less epic than the film, though highly disturbing nevertheless.
He is the basis for the characters of Leatherface, Norman Bates from 'Psycho', as well as Buffalo Bill from the film 'Silence of the Lambs'. He was a man who dug up graves, stole body parts, organs, and bones which he then in turn made into grizzly works of art. For example, he had bowls made out of human skulls, a belt made of female nipples, chairs and other various furniture adorned with skulls and bones, and I believe he had even upholstered a chair with human flesh. In addition to this, he had an odd sexual fetish of dissecting and collecting the vaginas of dead women as well as he had severed female heads, organs in the fridge, and many other things that were quite revolting.
Throughout his life, Ed was only convicted of killing one local woman, Bernice Worden, which is nowhere near Leatherface's body count. But it was the way in which he did it that made him so infamous on top of having probably the most disturbing house of horrors ever uncovered by law enforcement. He entered her store and bought some antifreeze and then shot her with a rifle which killed her. He was the last customer she had before she went missing, so the police went to his home and looked around and found her headless torso hanging upside down from the rafters of his garage split down the middle like a deer bleeding out. He was doing this with the intention of eating her remains. He is the basis for Leatherface due to the fact that he had several masks made of human flesh and was in the in process of making a female body suit out of stitched together pieces of female flesh (the basis for Buffalo Bill) and he spoke to the ghost of his dead mother whose room he had boarded off so that nothing could get in or out of it (the basis for Norman Bates). There is no indication that he killed Bernice wearing a skinned mask or the suit, so there are no factual killings for the basis of Leatherface and he never used a chainsaw. He died in 1984 in a mental hospital.
What is going on in rwanda now the rebel war has finished?
Rwanda is now in the process of rebuilding after the war, and is making rapid progress.
Foriegn investments, mostly from Belgium have added million of Euros to the economy. The Agricultural and Fishery industires have been the first focus and have almost returned to pre-war status. Other programs include a new water sanitation and health program, and methods for exporting Rwandas agricultural surplus.
There is also a plan in the works to bring broadband internet to every community in the country, as a part of theri efforts to modernize the country and enhance literacy and education.
Why was it called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre not The Wisconsin Massacre?
Because The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not based on a true story; it's fiction. Ed Gein is NOT The Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer. He's just the guy who gave the moviemakers the idea for the Leatherface character.
Just because a writer gets an idea for a movie or book from real life, doesn't mean that movie/book is "based on a true story."
All writers get their ideas from real life. Occasionally, a great idea will just come to you, seemingly from out of the blue, and you honestly have no idea where it came from. But for the most part, writers don't come up with ideas from nothing. They get their ideas from things they see and experience in the real world, be it personal experiences, or newspaper stories.
For example, say you read a story in the newspaper about a notorious female drug dealer in New York City. This gives you the idea for a character named Stella Banx, a tough and powerful woman who, at the age of 55, is slowly dying of syphilis. With the Mayor's approval, she runs the most lucrative brothel in all of 19th century New Orleans, with the help of her two murderous yet loyal daughters, Kit and Marie.
Now, wouldn't it be silly to say that the story of Stella Banx is "based on a true story?" The real life story and the fictional story are nothing alike! Stella Banx isn't a drug dealer, she doesn't live in the 21st century, she doesn't live in New York City, she has two daughters, she's friends with the Mayor, she has syphilis...
When a movie/book is "based on a true story," it means that the author/moviemakers strived to make the movie/book as close to the truth as possible. No such attempt was made with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The moviemakers never made any effort to accurately portray the Ed Gein story. Instead, they just took a few teeny-tiny grains of truth, and everything else is fictional.
The only similarities between the Ed Gein case and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are that Ed Gein wore the skin of his victims like clothing, decapitated and gutted them and hung them up in his house, and may possibly have eaten some of their remains.
Ed Gein did not live in Texas, he did not belong to a family of killers, he did not murder his victims with a chainsaw, and he never stalked a bunch of teenagers that were passing by his house!
Again, just because the author/moviemaker got an idea from real life, doesn't mean the book/movie is based on a true story!
Just to name a few examples out of a million, many of Jane Austen's characters were based, at least in part, on herself or people she knew. But that doesn't mean Pride and Prejudiceis based on a true story.
Nearly all of Stephen King's main characters (the male ones, anyway) are pretty much self-portraits. They're all variations of himself. But that doesn't mean Stephen King's novels are based on true stories, either!
Additionally, Stephen King got the idea for Ellen Rimbauer and the Rose Red mansion from Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mansion. But Ellen Rimbauer and Rose Red are still fiction: for one thing, no one has ever died or gone missing in the Winchester Mansion. And the life of Sarah Winchester was absolutely nothing like the life of the fictional Ellen Rimbauer.
The idea for the Freddy Krueger character came from a creepy vagrant who frightened writer/director Wes Craven when he was a child. The man wore a hat and sweater similar to Freddy's. But that doesn't mean the Nightmare on Elm Street movies are based on a true story!
And the plot of nearly every Law & Order episode comes from newspaper stories of real-life crimes. But they still can legitimately put the disclaimer that, "the events in this story are fictional and do not depict any real person or event," at the beginning of each episode, because they change so many of the facts that it becomes fiction.
And finally, both The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho were also inspired by the Ed Gein murders. But nobody ever tries to call The Silence of the Lambs or Psycho"based on a true story." The amount of truth in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho is the same: almost none.
I repeat: Ed Gein is NOT the Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer. He's just the guy who inspired the character Leatherface.
Saying that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is based on a true story, because they got the idea from Ed Gein, is like saying that A Nightmare on Elm Street is based on a true story, because Wes Craven got the idea for Freddy from that homeless guy who scared him so many years ago.
I really cannot stress this enough: ALL writers get their ideas from real life. A movie/book is only "based on a true story" when the writer tries to depict the truth as accurately as possible. If the author just uses something in real life as inspiration, but the book/movie they produce is totally different from what really happened...then it's not based on a true story.
In other words, a movie/book is not automatically "based on a true story" just because one or two things are similar to something that really happened.
If we say that a movie/book is "based on a true story" just because the author/moviemaker got the idea from something in real life, then we are basically saying that every movie/book is based on a true story.
What were the conditions during the Rwanda genocide?
The genocide took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, an ongoing conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. Most of the dead were Tutsis and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994.
For many reasons:
Power
Wealth
Ethnic conflicts
Racial conflicts
Discrimination
Identity crisis and some other reasons
What was the Katyn Forest massacre and what is its significance?
The Katyn Forest massacre was when the Soviets brutally mudured about 25,000 Polish officers and civilians during World War II, around April 1940. Its significance wah that i was easier for communists to take the control over Poland and install a communistic government after the end of WWII.
Who decided the Cambodian genocide is a genocide?
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.
What happened during the Yugoslavian genocide?
Bosnians were killed by Serbs, even though they were under protection by the UN
What was the main goal of the Nazi policy of genocide?
their main goal was to "exterminate the brutes" or kill all the Jews ( rid society of social 'impurities')
About how many refugees were there in the Rwandan Genocide?
Most Tutsi's weren't able to escape the country, but there were probably 200,000-300,000 Tutsi refugees, however after the resurgence of the Tutsi rebels over 2 million Hutus (the group doing the killing) fled into the Democratic Republic of the Congo fearing retaliation.
Genocide is mass murder against a certain culture, such as the Nazi's exterminating Jews, homosexuals, communists, the disabled, black people, etc.
How many people were killed in the Iran Holocaust?
I don't think there is anything called the 'Iran Holocaust'.
What was the world's reaction to cambodian genocide?
The world looked on in horror but did not do anything about it. The United States became rather isolationist after its failure in the Vietnam War.
Was Rwanda governmentally organized during the Genocide?
Was Rwanda governmentally organized during the Genocide?
Similarities between the Nanking massacre and the Holocaust?
Almost none:
They both involved death, that's about it for similarities.
The Rape of Nanking was a single action, the Holocaust was a collections of actions. The motivations for them were different, and so forth.
How did the Cold War between superpowers lead to a genocide within Southeast Asia?
don't know great detail, but I know that during the Cold War, the U.S.S.R. was very involved with Southeast Asia. Mao Zedong, the ruler of China during part of it was very closely connected to the Soviets, but their relationship started having problems, especially as the U.S. kept also trying to interfere in situations in parts of Southeast Asia as well, thus all factors I would imagine play into genocide. I'm not sure specifically which genocide you're referring to, but there were many issues between the two superpowers fighting over influence over the majority of Southeast Asia states, thus I'm sure with the flip-flopping back and forth between supporters, a lot of problems arose and death as a result. Many wars and battles were fought in that region during the Cold War as a result. Again, it's not detailed, but maybe it helps a little in the right direction
He killed about 1.7 million people because he wanted to be a strong man.
