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What is Ethnic Cleansing?

What is Ethnic Cleansing?. C7K4. AKA as GENOCIDE. Is a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

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What is Ethnic Cleansing?

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  1. What is Ethnic Cleansing? C7K4

  2. AKA as GENOCIDE • Is a process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. • Desire to be the sole inhabitants and not just defeat and subjugate the other ethnic group as in traditional wars

  3. OBJECTIVES • Ethnic Cleansing in Europe • Ethnic Cleansing in Central Africa

  4. Ethnic Cleansing in Europe • WWII (1939 – 1945): Nazis targeted Jews & Gypsies • Post WWII: German migration because of border changes • Creation of Multiethnic Yugoslavia (AKA Balkans)

  5. BALKANS AKA POWDER KEG • Incredibly Diverse: • Seven Neighbors • Six Republics • Five Nationalities • Four Languages • Three Religions • Two Alphabets • One Currency

  6. Destruction of Multiethnic Yugoslavia • 1990’s: Fall of Communism = desire for self determination by the five republics • Bosnia (48% Muslim against 37% Serb/ 14% Croats) • Peace accord: land disproportionately distributed.

  7. Destruction of Multiethnic Yugoslavia • Kosovo: 90% Albania Muslim • Serbs invaded and attempted to remove Albanians from Kosovo (resulted in NATO involvement) • Balkanization: process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities = threat to peace and stability in surrounding areas

  8. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Africa • 1880’s: Imperialism factor: Colonies did not reflect ethnic identity.

  9. 1950/60’s: African Independence did not revert to tribal, rather nation-states

  10. Rwanda • Central Africa: German/Belgium colony • Hutu80% , Tutsi15%, Twa4%, European1% • 1962: Independence resulted in power shift • 1994: intensified into 800,000 Tutsi’s killed • Domino Effect: spilled into Burundi, Congo

  11. GENOCIDE RESEARCH • you and a partner willbe assigned a genocide to research within the past century. PLAGIARISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. READ & SUMMARIZE IN YOUR OWN WORDS. DUE ON MONDAY

  12. 1) Who did it involve? (demographic % of the country) • 2) Where did it happen? (country/ region) • 3) When did it happen? (year(s) and also what was going on with the USA at this time?) • 4) What was the conflict about? (summarized two or three paragraphs) • 5) What was the international response? (in a paragraph) • 6) What was the death toll? (number of dead, % of population) • 7) Why do you think the international community responded/ did not respond the way it did? (one to two paragraphs) • 8) How could this have been prevented? (one to two paragraphs)9) provide a cover page that will include a map of area, title, and at least two images of the events surrounding the genocide. • PREPARE TO PRESENT YOUR INFO IN CLASS (prepare an index card with a shortened version of items 1 through 8 to present in class. No more than 3 minute presentation.

  13. Genocides • 1) Holocaust • 2) Rwanda • 3) Bosnia • 4) Armenian • 5) Cambodian • 6) Namibian • 7) Congolese by Belgium • 8) Darfur • 9) Kurds by Iraq • 10) China by Japan • 11) Ukrainian

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