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Ethnic violence through displacement of peoples resulting in refugee populations. Matt Harrington Juliette Jamieson. (Genocide). Genocide in Rwanda . 1944 -- Hutu (85%) Tutsi (14%) Twa (1%) Early 1990's Hutu extremists blamed Tutsi for country's increasing political, social,
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Ethnic violence through displacement of peoples resulting in refugee populations Matt Harrington Juliette Jamieson (Genocide)
Genocide in Rwanda • 1944 -- Hutu (85%) Tutsi (14%) Twa (1%) • Early 1990's • Hutu extremists blamed Tutsi for country's increasing political, social, and economic pressures • Accused of supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) • End of 1992 - division between Hutu and Tutsi increased • April 6, 1994 - plane with President Habyarimana shot down • Political leaders killed • Hutu planned to destroy entire pop. of Tutsi • 800,000 people killed (3/4 of the Tutsi pop.) • 300,000 children • 95,000 children orphaned • Thousands of Hutu killed for opposing the killing campaign
Genocide in Rwanda Contd. • Civil war and genocide ended in 1994 when the RPF defeated the Hutu perpetrator regime and President Paul Kagame took over • France, Belgium, US, and UN were aware of the genocide • Leading foreign actors refused to acknowledge it • Refused to declare the genocidal govt. guilty of exterminating its citizens
Cambodian Genocide • Khmer Rouge--communist guerrilla organisation (leader was Pol Pot) • Pop. worked as unpaid laborers-- all who opposed eliminated • Banned religion • Killed Buddhist monks, professional people in any field • killed for simply for knowing a foreign language, wearing glasses, laughing, or crying • "To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss." • Targeted minority groups (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Cham Muslim, Christian)
Genocide in Palestine • 535+ villages destroyed • 800,000 people were driven from their homes by force or fear of force • "the ethnic cleansing of Palestine" • 1948 -- thousands of Palestinians killed by terrorist Jewish groups like the Stern, Haganah and Irgun • Deir Yassin massacre • April 9, 1948 • 100+ villagers annihilated • Prisoners were paraded through the streets in occupied Jerusalem, then killed • Khan Younis, 1956 • 500 villagers massacred in the middle of the Gaza Strip • killed Egyptians
Armenians • 1915-1923 • Persecution of the Armenian Population of the Ottoman Empire • Deported from their Homes • Ottoman Soldiers • Long, brutal walks • Death toll: 600,000-1,800,000
Armenians Framed • Armenians traditionally wanted freedom • Supported attempts to usurp the Ottoman ruling body • World War 1 • Ottomans lost and broken apart • April 24 1915 • 250 Men of power Constantinople of Armenian descent deported • Blamed -->"The Armenians were in league with the enemy" • Armenians become social scapegoats • National hate
Armenian Extermination • Marches to Concentration camps • Mass Burning • Drowning • Sent on a boat into the black sea • Domestic unsafety • Doctors mis-diagnosing and mis-treating diseases on purpose • Social prejudice
The Methods Flow Chart: 1. Political Disaster/Disunity 2. Radical Group excludes minority group(s) 3. Propaganda Ensues 4. Scapegoat eradicated 5. Equally radical group interferes 6. Genocide is unveiled to public 7. Everything slowly stops
Works Cited • "Cambodia 1975." GENOCIDE - CAMBODIA. Peace Pledge Union. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia.html>. • Dadrian, Vahakn N (1995), The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus, Oxford: Berghahn Books, ISBN 1-57181-666-6 • "Genocide in Rwanda" United Human Rights Council. VIBSCO. Web. 11 May 2012. <http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda/htm>. • Jarour, Maysaa. "Is/was There a Genocide in Palestine?" The Palestine Telegraph. PT News, 8 Feb. 2010. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/sameh-a-habeeb/4088-iswas-there-a-genocide-in-palestine.html>.