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| Classification (the genocide process #1) |
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| all languages and cultures divide into the natural and social world. We All cultures: Us and them. classified by absurd laws (nuremburg) |
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| Symbolization (The genocide Process # 2) |
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| symbols and names signify physical characteristics. Governments require u wear an identifying symbol (Star of David) |
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| Denial of the humanity of others, victims are less than human. Calling names (vermin, cockroach, animal) |
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| Group identification, always organized, often by states, by also militias and hate groups |
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| revenge retribution cycle: killing by one group->revenge killings. Centers can't hold and extremist take over |
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| victims are usually drawn up, individuals forced to carry ID card for racial/ ethnic purposes. speeds up slaughter |
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| its called this because murder gave humanity and victims are not human. euphemisms "final Solution" "Ethnic Cleansing" |
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| Describe what happens in Rwanda and the U.S. Response |
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Between April 7-June 30 1945: 800,000-1,000,000. Killing done with machetes, first genocide recognized since 1948 genocide convention. former Belgian colony. capital:Kilgali. Hutu:85%; Tusti:14%; Kwa: 1%. Tusti was leaders(catholic church) ALL are roman catholic.Elites and aristocrats pushed for independence 1950-1960. open conflict began 1959; begins 20 yr dictatorship.tusti's forced to congo-1960 Tusti's called snakes, cockroaches, sneaky. Hutu begins mass violence-late 93. Habarymana (rwanda prez) shot down. local comm. healing tribunals gacaca (people come and resolve issues-patch of grass)
*Bill clinton elected-92 genocide starts-94 apology-98. Amnesty International, Human rights watch report violence- UN does nothing. Did not want to use the "G" word. Stumbled over there words. |
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| Describe Cambodia genocide & US response |
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1975-1979 Khmer Rouge (Cambodia Communist). 1.7-2 mil. killed 25% of pop. w/iron rods,shovels,axes. They were led by paris educated communist; Pol Pot-bro #1. They wanted a peasant comm. So killed anyone w/eyeglasses, spoke a foriegn lang. had edu., lived in another country, buddhist monks, diplomats, lawyers, police, soldiers, bureaucrats. Destroy 4 pilliars of cambodian life; food, family, buddhism, villiage. Bourgeois origins. "year zero"-1975; all history re-set beg. of KR revolution.
*US backed prince sihanouk(prince)since 1963. bomb eastern cambodia 10 years 65-75, stop infiltration from N. vietnam to S. Shanouk gave way to Lon Nol US supported succesor. Lon Nol left in 75; genocide began-ended when vietnam army took over-79 US maintained diplomatic ties to cambodia til 91 |
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Keep Articles 1,2,3,45,6,7,8,9,10,11,14,17,18,19,20,22,23,25,26,30
less important: 12,13,15,16,21,24,27,28,29 |
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| What are lesson from the holocaust and past genocides which are important for today's citizens? |
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That following the signs are always smart (out-casting, stigmatization,slurs, posters, dehumanizing)
Never be a bystander
Stop fear first
Don't reinforce negativity |
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| Rwanda's (hutu power militia) "those who fight together"- 1,000,000; 100 day killing of tusti's |
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| Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch |
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| Human rights organizations |
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| Prince of Cambodia since 1963 gave way to Lon Nol- Bro #1 |
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| The peacekeeping w. hutu & tusti prez. went to arush to sign treaty, hutu power shot down prez. |
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| Made a speech everyday for 25 years to the UN Genocide Convention about genocide |
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| "Strategic Interest," The US should not become involved in foreign affairs unless it is in our strategic interest to do so |
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| the name of a cemetery- 1989 prez nixon laid a wreath on an SS mans grave accidentally. bad PR |
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| current rez of rwanda, leader of tusti militia and stopped genocide of hutu |
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| Was bro# 3(cambodia) who conducted "live autopsy's" for a purpose of torture. 1st to be brought to trial, "war crimes" known for the saying "it is better to destroy 10 innocent people than to let 1 enemy go free" accepted Jesus as lord & savior confessed to killing 16 thousand |
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| The leader of yugoslavia, 33 yrs. he was the iron- fisted leader "george washington" type figure died in 98 |
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| Bro. #1 in cambodia genocide. Led cambodia communist KR (red cambodians) peasent utopia ideology |
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| Northern Iraq-subject to genocide by suddam hussien, no clear cut winner. In the after math of that war sadam used nerve gas & killed thousands of kurds |
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| Prevention of genocide act was a large part of this mans work and he is the one who got it passed in 1948 |
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| took over after prez sihanouk (cambodia) He left to hawaii in 1975 which is when the genocide began |
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| Former school, an infamous torture killing camp where over 15,000 were tortured to death cammandant was comrade duch |
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| "a thousand hills"- the country of a thousand hills; rwanda |
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| U.N> peacekeeping forces under his command, half withdrawn today, about 130,000 still held in prisons awaiting trial |
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| Local rwanda healing tribunals. non-judicial, non-legal ancient word reffering to a patch of grass that was in a villiage where people would come to resolve problems (like TRC) |
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| Where cambodians would take people to field and kill them with hoes |
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| The name of a small villiage in bosnia |
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| Universal Declaration Of Human Rights |
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| International Criminal Court 1998 |
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| Lon Nol in 75 then the genocide began and then the vietnam army took over in 1979 |
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| the 100 days of killings of 800,000-1,000,000 people |
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| Long standing conflict in South Western region is sudan (second largest) the "fur" people lived there in 2003-04; 300,000 were killed then 2-3 thousand were relocated. |
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| Democratic Republic of Congo |
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| The leader of the serbs, he was tried for the main genocide (by def.) to the UN |
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| United Nations Assisted Mission in Rwanda |
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| is the capital of the Netherlands; where most of the war crime trial were held |
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| was directly involved in the bosnian genocide |
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| wrote one of the essays in "The Sunflower" his friend collaborated in cambodia w/ new york times |
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