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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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How long was the Rwandan Genocide?
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.
During World War 1 what group of people were victims of genocide?
Yes, the Armenians were subject to genocide by the Ottoman Turkish government. About 1.2 million Armenians were slaughtered in 1915-1917.
Who were the perpetrators of the Congo genocide?
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.
Why did genocide occur in Sudan?
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.
How many people died in el salvador 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.
Did the Armenian genocide take place?
Armenia
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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.
Who won the sand creek massacre?
The cheyenne and arapaho indians, and colonel John chivington and his men.
Where did Tutsi flee during the Rwanda genocide?
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.
Where does genocide happen in the world today?
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;
What phrase is the best definition of genocide?
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of (or attempt to destroy) an ethnic, racial, religious or national group.
Genocide - to kill off an entire race or ethnic group. The actual crime is mass murder committed in an attempt to do so.
One of the most famous genocides in history was the killing of Jewish people during World War II.
The systematic killing of an entire group of people, usually an ethnic group.
The definition of the word genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation."
Genocide is the killing of an entire specific group of people. This can mean a particular race, religion etc.
Why was the UN pulled out of the Rwandan genocide?
They realized they could do nothing to stop it and wanted to bring their own people to safety.
Who were the Armenian people and why were they targeted?
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.
Where did attempted genocide occur in world war 2?
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.
How many people were killed in the Bosnian genocide?
To be precise it is Srebrenica Genocide or Massacre. About 8000 people were killed, mainly men.
When did the Rwandan genocide stop and how?
I think it's because the Tutsis and Hutus were evacuated by the Americans. But the genocide hasn't actually stoped. People are still being killed.That might be the answer.
leul woldegabriel
What events occurred leading up the the Cambodian genocide?
The Cambodian genocide, between 1975 to 1979, started when a Communist group, Khmer Rouge, seized control of Cambodia. The leader, Pol Pot, exercised extreme martial law on the people and executed adults and children across the country.
Should the US intervene in another country to prevent genocide?
No it isn't are responsibility, before WW2 the US had a strong sense of isolationism, we should go back to those ways and stay outta other peoples business. Our founding fathers warned us about getting into foreign entanglements and how it would play a key role into the downfall of our nation.
Who murdered the Armenians in World War 1?
The Young Turks, led by Mehmet Talaat Pasha, Ismail Enver Pasha, and Ahmed Djemal Pasha led the genocide of over 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The majority were killed by Ottoman soldiers, Turkish Irregulars, and Kurdish Irregulars.
