• Background information on the Holocaust and related events.
• Modern Parallels

• • (Student) The pictures of victims in Cambodia are especially creepy. It is powerful to see the images and faces of some people that were mistreated and abused.

  • Don't forget to flip through this interactive timeline!
• Genocide is a term created during the Holocaust and declared an international crime in the 1948
• "intent to destroy"

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• 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days
• Whoever was responsible, within hours a campaign of violence spread from the capital throughout the country, and did not subside until three months later.

  • (Student) Political issues started the genocide in Rwanda.
• • (Student) Was there always anger between Jewish and German people in Germany? I wonder...
• There have been always been disagreements between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis

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• • (Student) Eva Galler gives information about the trains bringing prisoners to concentration camps. Use this for comparing how people were captured.
• During the next 11 months 4,500,000 human beings were eliminated. By the end of World War II the toll had risen to approximately 6,000,000 Jews, which included 1,500,000 children, who perished at the hands of the Nazi murderers.

• • (Student) Ms. Guarneri, these pictures are awful! It is horrifying to see the victims and how their bodies were treated. How awful!

  • This site is very graphic. You may feel uncomfortable looking at all of the images, so be prepared! If you become extremely uncomfortable, please visit a new site!
• 100 days of genocide

  • (Student) Some captions have great details! Look for number of people and weapons used when rewatching!

• • The government is willing to participate in such violence. I have seen that this is the case in the other genocide examples, too!
• The Sudanese government’s established capacity and willingness to resort to violence against civilians in order to pursue its agend
• The war between the north and south resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2 million people and displaced 4 million others. The primary victims were the people from the Dinka, Nuer and Nuba ethnic groups.
• • (Student) Sounds like genocide to me. This matches the definition I found on another site.
• targeting of the civilian populations from the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit ethnic groups, resulting in the deaths of at least 200,000 people between 2003 and 2005 alone

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• • Click on the different links on the right to find the different subtpics in your research!
• • (Student) I didn't know I would find Holocaust and Rwanda information in a general link - thanks, Ms. Guarneri!
• “Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group
• mental harm

  • mental aspect
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

  • (Student) New addition to the defintiion!

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• • What do you think when you see this picture?
• • (Student) I feel so bad for these kids! I can't believe that these children look so sad, hungry, and depressed. However, after seeing some pictures of what happened in Rwanda, I understand a little better!
• 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days.

  • Numerical data on how many people died.
• To distinguish between the groups, the Belgians issued identity cards for the first time

  • This sounds like the yellow stars that Jewish people wore in Germany.

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  Analysis: Defining genocide

              

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  Genocide is understood by most to be the gravest crime against humanity it is possible to commit.

   

  It is the mass extermination of a whole group of people, an attempt to destroy an entire group and wipe them out of existence.

   

  But at the heart of this simple idea is a complicated tangle of legal definitions.

   

  This has led to conflicting views on when a mass killing, or forced movement, of people can be called genocide.

   

  There are people who say that there was only one genocide during the last century.

   

  Others say there were at least three, possibly more.

   

  What is genocide and when can that term be applied?
• • (Student) I would have to disagree with this statement! I guess they did not do as much research as me!

• There are people who say that there was only one genocide during the last century.

   

  Others say there were at least three, possibly more.
• The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks between 1915-1920 - an accusation that the Turks deny

  • new examples of genocide
• • There is an international crime organized designed to deal with these cases!
• genocide

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