Genocide
The U.N convention defines genocide as all acts committed with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.1 What are the motives behind genocide? There lies within humans a potential to commit genocide. The dark side of human nature awakens when a combination of economic catastrophes, political disasters and social upheaval makes a segment of a population desperate for change. Then, a regime's propaganda can successfully motivate it's citizens to commit genocide on a certain identifiable group or "victim". There are 4 motives for genocide. Number one: elimination of a threat. Number two: economic gain. Number three: creation of terror amongst surrounding people. Number four: fulfillment of a theory or belief system.2 There are six major early warning signs that indicate a genocide is very near. Number one: hate propaganda, showing the future victim group as a lethal danger to the survival of society. Number two: the preparation of death lists and the killing of the people on the list. Number three: the introduction of restrictions, not allowing journalists to travel freely in the country. Number four: the use of code words to plan
3 This paper will examine three Genocides committed in the twentieth century--Armenia, Nazi Germany and Rwanda. On April 24th 1915, hundreds of Armenian leaders were murdered in Istanbul after being summoned and gathered there. meanwhile the United Nations cut its force in Rwanda from 2500 soldiers to 250. The Turks started to love their country so much that they would die to defend it. and prevent the repetition of these barbaric events the 20th century may succeed in bringing the doom of civilization. Mugusera to send the Tutsis back to "where they belong", in Ethiopia. Could this tragedy been avoided if we citizens of the world spoke out and took a stand during the early signs of genocide? Once again our silence set the stage for disaster. They became extremely involved in many aspects of German society, they constituted a high proportion of doctors, lawyers, accountants, judges, etc. Part three of the plan involved gathering the remaining Armenian residents including doctors, lawyers, politicians and authors, relocating them in a remote desert. The government planed to "relocate" the Armenians, "for their own good". During the early stages of World War Two the Nazis decided that getting rid of the "Jewish problem" would return Germany to a pure Aryan race and the Third Reich would be triumphant for a thousand years.
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