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 Camarillo,Noe  World History per 1  09/19/10  **__ Holocaust __** What would you do when you see millions of people getting killed? In 1914, in a place called Germany, there was a person called Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler started a group called the Nazi. He as the leader changed Germany and created history that no one will ever forget. The Holocaust is a genocide.

This genocide first started in 1941, and happens in Germany where Hitler and his army started to invade other countries to conquer them.//The Crime of "genocide" Defined in Internation Laws say"// (G)enocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group (Prevent Genocide International, article 2)." He wants Germany to be a great country again and wanted Germany to have only kind. He invaded Poland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, and Balkans. World War 2 happens because of this and millions of Jews die. The perpetrators are the Nazi in this genocide and the leader of this group is Adolf Hitler. The Nazis where ordered by Hitler to exterminated all the victims or use them for military labor. The victims in the genocide are the Jews, gypsies, homosexual, Catholics, Jehovans witnesses, and other minorities, during World War 2 and it ended in 1945.

What happened in Germany was a genocide. It’s a genocide because a genocide is a mass killing of a race. Adolf Hitler tried to exterminated, but failed instead there was a mass killing where 6 million Jews died. The Nazi treated the Jews as if they weren’t humans anymore, but instead they treated them as animals. All of the eight stages of the genocide happen in the Holocaust.

The 1st stage of genocide is classification. Classification is when you divided certain people into groups based on their ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality. In Germany the Nazi move the Jews from Germany to the ghettos. Thus the Holocaust genocide does meet the requirements of this stage because the Nazi sperated the Jews from the rest of the socially. The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolization, symbolization is when you use a certain symbol to represent group of people. In Germany the Nazi put the Star of David on the Jews to know who is a Jew in the group. Thus the Nazi use symbolization, by put stars on the Jews to tell who is a Jew.

The 3rd stage of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when you take away all the rights of a certain group and treat them as if they are animals. In Germany the Nazi had the Jews treated as dogs and made sure they weren’t as equal as others. Thus the holocaust genocide does meet the requirements of this stage because the Nazi treated the Jews lesser than human. The 4th stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when they would be organizing an army to go and do mass killings. In Germany they had the Nazi and S.S. soldiers would go out and get all the Jews so that they could put them in concentration camps or kill them. Thus the holocaust does meet this stage of genocide because they had army organize the mass killings.

The 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when they are driving apart groups and use broadcasting to help separate them also the perpetrators had to be protected at all times. In Germany the Nazi use broadcasting send out messages saying how the Jews where bad, also Hitler had body guards protecting him at all times. Thus the Holocaust does meet the requirements of this stage because the Nazi use broadcasting to make the Jews look bad. The 6th stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is when the victims are separated and identified because of their race or ethnicity, also the Jews are put into ghettos or in concentration camps. In Germany the Nazi identified the Jews by the Star of David and they then put the Jews into ghettos and concentration camps. Thus the holocaust meets the requirements of this genocide because the Nazi move away the Jews to ghettos and in camps.

The 7th stage of genocide is extermination. Extermination is when victims are mass killed by a overwhelming group and when the perpetrators believed that their victims aren’t humans. In Germany the Nazi killed millions of Jews. Thus the Holocaust does fit this stage of the genocide because they tried to exterminate the Jews from the human race. The 8th stage of genocide is denial. Denial is when the perpetrators deny that there was ever a genocide and they would destroy all the evidence that happened in the genocide. Nazis would burn all the evidence and tried to destroy the camps and burn the bodies of the Jews so that no one would ever know of the holocaust. Thus the holocaust does meet this requirement of a genocide the Nazi hide the evidence by burning down the camps and the bodies.

What happened in Germany was a genocide and one of the biggest. This is a genocide because it was the first one recorded. The Holocaust has all eight stages of a genocide. This is a genocide because the Nazis tried to exterminate all the Jews. Adolf Hitler made the Jews lose hope and in faith in god. Adolf Hitler did a big damaged and change the world.


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Jessica Banuelos September 20, 2010 Mr. Sterrett Period 1 World History

= __Cambodia__  =

Could you ever imagine one day to be ruled by communist that would kill up to 2 million lives that resulted to be genocide? The Cambodian’s were. What happened in Cambodia was a genocide. Cambodia is a 3rd world country right beneath China. It all started when Pol Pot with his communist army the Khmer Rouge won the civil war in 1975. This genocide was composed of extermination by famine, exhaustion and cruelty full of devastation. What had led to such Disaster?

In 1953, after Cambodia gained independence from France, monarch Prince Sihanouk ruled Cambodia in the 1960’s. In 1954 during the Vietnamese Civil War, Cambodia was involved but had remained neutral. Prince Sihanouk secretly helped sides, the Viet Cong (communist guerrillas) and the South Vietnamese army (backed up by the USA). After those series of events Prince Sihanouk and his followers joined a communist guerrilla organization that was founded in 1960 called the Khmer Rouge. Khmer Rouge was organized and led by Pol Pot. Lieutenant-general Lon Nol a leader of the new right-wing government became president of the ‘Khmer Republic’ (Cambodian Government). Civil war began when the Khmer Rouge attacked Lon Nol’s army. Pol Pot the Khmer Rouge leader had suspicions with Cambodia’s relation with Vietnam. Lon Nol’s allied with the US; the alliance had led Pol Pot to recruit more people into the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge had grown over 700,000 men by 1975 compared to in 1970 when the army was smaller. Not only did the Lon Nol’s army have to put an end to the Viet Cong in Cambodia, they also had to struggle with the Khmer Rouge, their own country’s communist party. In 1975, the Viet Cong took over South Vietnam’s capital and Khmer Rouge defeated Lon Nol. Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Chhit Chhoeun and Nuon Chea established the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK), but the Cambodians were told that their leader was Angka. The CPK believed that secrecy was the way to be powerful. Pol Pot’s plans were to wipe out completely the civilization and start a new country with forced labor into what he called Year Zero.

The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of large groups especially those of a particular ethnic, group or nation. What happened in Cambodia was exactly a genocide, due to the fact that they killed Cambodians who were educated, wore glasses in suspicion that they knew how to read or write, spoke a foreign language, having a profession in any career field, for laughing, crying and having un-communist aspects of traditional Cambodian society. Peoples whose’ ethnics or ancestry were Chinese, Vietnamese or Thai were the victims to Khmer Rouge’s racism. They also murdered 8,000 Christians, half the population of Cham Muslims and Buddhist monks. Khmer Rouge slogans were ‘To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss’.

The 1st stage of genocide is classification. Classification when people distinguish people because of their ethnicity, race, religion, group, nationality or looks. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge targeted Cambodians who were religious, had any Ethnic or ancestry of Thai, Vietnamese, or Chinese. Khmer rouge also targeted educated people, people who lived in the Eastern Zone and anyone against him. He classified those certain groups as enemies therefore he had to destroy them. Therefore, the way Khmer Rouge classified people meets the 1st stage of genocide .The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is when symbols or names are used to identify a group of people and make them feel like aliens or different, in a malicious way. For Example, The Khmer Rouge made people wear scarves at all times, different colors for the different classification. Cambodians from the Eastern zone (the city) were forced to wear blue and white scarves. Those with Blue scarves were to march to their death; they wouldn’t spare any of them. Others used the yellow or red/white scarves, they weren’t allowed to use blue and white scarves. Thereby the Cambodian genocide does meet this stage.

The 3rd stage of genocide is Dehumanization. Dehumanization is when one group treats another as if they were no longer humans, they do it in order to make killing seem proper. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge used propaganda to dehumanize Cambodians, their former slogan was ‘To spare is no profit, to destroy you is no loss’. They made Cambodians work in farms for extended hours and gave them little food. They also made Cham Muslims eat pork. In the Tuol Sleng extermination prison, before the people were killed they were taken pictures of with their numbers and forced to confess that they were animals. Cambodians’ rights were all taken away that’s why it meets this stage. The 4th stage of genocide is Organization. Organization is when group of people plans to take over a government with intentions to be a dictator. Once in power they organize killings to all people who do not agree with them and who ever doesn’t fit in their new society. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge killed anyone who was apposed to them, people who were educated, and any one had un-communist aspects of traditional Cambodian society. Therefore what happened in Cambodia meets the stage because the Khmer Rouge made an organized mission, to inhumanely enforce and extremist plan to reconstruct Cambodia into a Mao’s China communist model.

The 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when People try to separate groups by using propaganda or laws. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge were made to think that the city people were investors who refused to join their rebellion as enemies. The Khmer Rouge was told to show no mercy towards them. Children were taken away from their parents and brain washed to think in a communist way to and vanish their culture. Children were often used to spy on their family and report to the Khmer Rouge; the children were reward with privileges but their parents were sent to be killed. The people were forbidden to have any social interaction. . It meets this stage because Pol Pot divided people with hate propagandas to control the people. The 6th stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is when people are forced to wear their identity symbols to make death lists, to be transported in to extermination camps. In Cambodia the people from the Eastern Zone were force to wear a blue and white scarf and to leave their homes to extermination camps. It didn’t matter if you were an infant, old, disabled or ill, everyone had to leave. If you didn’t or didn’t leave fast enough you were killed. What happened in Cambodia meets this stage because they made the killing fields and torturing prisons like the Tuol Sleng spared no mercy for the people.

The 7th stage of genocide is extermination. Extermination is the mass killing of victims because the killers did not believe they were humans. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge made the Cambodians dig massive graves. The Cambodians were asked to kneel down at the edge of the grave and were hit on the head and spinal cord with iron bars or hoes, this action paralyzed them, and they would fall in to the grave with out a chance of getting out. Whether they were dead or not the graves were filled with dirt. Khmer Rouge believed that bullets shouldn’t be wasted on the vermin. The Khmer Rouge made any excuse to kill people it didn’t matter if it was injustice. The Khmer Rouge would torture and make them confess that they were animals, not human and then kill them. This meets the stage because over 2 million Cambodians died because the Khmer Rouge believed that they didn’t deserved rights and were inhuman. Many others were over worked in farms made to suffer by diseases, exhaustion, and starvation until death. The Khmer Rouge ran 158 prisons and made 309 mass-grave sites with an estimated total of 19,000 grave pits. In the last stage the 8th is denial. Denial is when the killers try to hide the evidence and intimidate witnesses. The accused would blame their victims for the outcome, and deny any accusations of crimes or acts of violence. In Cambodia the Khmer Rouge had hid the people by digging them into the ground. The main leader of Khmer rouge Pol Pot died in 1998 before being tried. To the end Pol Pot did not show compunction or realization of the misery he had created. The others responsible Nuon Chea, 84, Khieu Samphan, 79, Ieng Sary, and his wife Ieng Thirith, both 80, are going to be trialed in 2011. They have denied to the accusations of genocide that’s why it meets this stage.

In conclusion, the struggle that Cambodia experience during 1975-1979 does represent genocide because all 8 stages were met. Pol Pot wanted to reconstruct Cambodia just like Moa did to China, but by using violence and terror with anyone who did not agree with him or did not meet his standards. Furthermore, till this date Cambodians are still suffering the effects of the genocide. Ignacio Esqueda period:1 9/22/10

How do you know when it’s a genocide? many people describe genocides as many ways. There’s only one description of genocides. What happened in Armenia was a genocide because people were killed by force. Many massacred and others driven away from home.

The historical background of what happened in Armenia. What happened in Armenia was that in 1915 under the cover of war the ottman government resolved to expel Turkeys Armenian population witch was in the state of 1.75 million. Around 1915-1923 the western part of Armenian was empleted of Armenians. Those who didn’t die fled to middle east, Russia, or the U.S.

Comparing Armenia to the definition of genocide is very identical. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political or cultural group. That mostly a comparison of what happened in Armenia an extermination of a group.

In Armenia they classified the Armenians with a low prestige. they targeted them with exterminating them. They were Turks and already had targeted them as a threatening group.

The comparison to Armenian and dehumanization is that they were treated like animals they were discriminated in a harsh way. They were killed by force they didn’t care if they were kids or adults. They organized them self to take the Turk empire and destroy every Armenian.

The Armenians were preparation in way that in radios. They propaganda many ways so the same people would hate each other. They also used the media to inform people that the Armenians where a threat.

The Armenians were being exterminated by the many people. They were exterminated almost to extinction. They almost tried to escape. They also denied that they didn’t kill the Armenians. They also tried to cover that they did not kill Armenians.

In conclusion what happened in Armenia was a genocide. The reason I say this is because many Armenians were killed. Also they were merely almost brought to extinction. This is why I believe that it is a genocide. **// Justin Witt //**  **// September 20, 2010 //**   **// Mr. Sterrett //**

**// The Rwandan Genocide! //**

Genocide is generally considered one of the worst moral crimes government could handle meaning any ruling authority, including that of a guerrilla group, a Soviet, a terrorist organization, or an occupation authority can commit against its citizens or those it controls. One is the definition of genocide as the intention to murder people because of their group membership, even if political or economic. A second definition, which may also be called democide, is any intentional government murder of unarmed and helpless people for whatever reason. In this case I believe that this is a GENOCIDE. The Rwandan genocide was the systematic extermination of over eight hundred thousand Tutsi, an ethnic group in Rwanda, by the Hutu, another ethnic group in Rwanda. In the early 1900's, the Tutsi were placed in positions of power by Belgium, because they looked "whiter". Governed by Belgium's racist way of thought, ethnic identity cards were introduced. The Catholic Church supported the Tutsi and the new social order and educated the Tutsi and imposed their religion on them, even though the population of Rwanda was ninety percent Hutu. The nature of their historical pastoral or agricultural roles, Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land; and this division of labor perpetuated a population balance in which Hutus naturally outnumbered Tutsis. A wedge was driven between them when the European colonists moved in. It was the practice of colonial administrators to select a group to be privileged and educated 'intermediaries' between governors and governed. The Belgians chose the Tutsis: landowners, tall, and to European eyes the more aristocratic in appearance. This thoughtless introduction of class consciousness unsettled the stability of Rwandan society. Some Tutsis began to behave like aristocrats, and the Hutu to feel treated like peasants. An alien political divide was born. The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali (which is the capital of Rwanda) airport on 6 April 1994. It was only c couple of hours after the assignation of the president Juvenal Habyarimana violence spread across the capital and then the country and it took several months before the violence was ceased. Before the murder of the president there was already conflict between the Tuties and the Hutu’s since the country was ruled by the Belgium’s in 1916. Although the genocide is over, disease and war still plagues this small, poor country. Many Tutsi, trying to regain their lives in Rwanda, are still tortured and harassed by the Hutu. This is because there are many witnesses to the brutal crimes of the Hutu, and many have not been put on yet. Rwandan economy remains dependant on coffee and tea exports and foreign aid. One form of discrimination that was directed at the Batwa by the Hutu and Tutsi tribes was negative stereotyping. This type of discrimination was very common and widespread. The Hutu and Tutsi tribe considered the Batwa to be people who were lacking a proper culture and language but the Batwa are people that are very proud of their heritage and culture. Many are musicians and dancers. Some have taken on the task of pottery making and verse telling which keeps their culture alive today. Another form of negative stereotyping is the way in which the Batwa are called names like ignorant and stupid (Woodburn, 1997). This act is done most of the time in front of fellow tribe members or in public. believed the Hutu and Tutsi tribe considered this a way in which they could humiliate and exclude the Batwa. All Throughout elements necessary for genocide, the killing began on April 6, 1994. Checkpoints were set up, covering the major routes and borders around Rwanda. These checkpoints consisted of Hutu military checking ethnic identity cards, if they were Hutu they lived, if they were Tutsi they were killed immediately. Tutsi gathered in churches, which were considered sacred, but they turned into slaughterhouses where many were massacred. The killing lasted for one hundred days. Over 800,000 Tutsi were killed over the hundred day meaning. 1/3 of the of the Tutsi population being wiped out. In the mean while there was no outside help from any country’s of the Untied States. Eventually, though, the Rwandan Patriotic Front defeated the militias and the Rwandan army, and the genocide ended.

Donald Sterrett Rwanda Name of Student Submitting Essay: **__First 3 Paragraph Rough Draft Rubric__** Step 1: Student Self Assessment 1. Are there at least 3 paragraphs? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 2. Did you use one of the two required thesis statements? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 3. Does Paragraph #2 include the historical background on your country? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 4. Does Paragraph #3 have enough information for someone who doesn’t know about the genocide to understand the genocide? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 5. Does Paragraph #3 include the comparison of your country to the definition of genocide? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = Total Points: /25 Step 2: First Reading Name of Student Reading Essay: 1. Are there at least 3 paragraphs? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 2. Did you use one of the two required thesis statements? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 3. Does Paragraph #2 include the historical background on your country? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 4. Does Paragraph #3 have enough information for someone who doesn’t know about the genocide to understand the genocide? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 5. Does Paragraph #3 include the comparison of your country to the definition of genocide? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = Total Points: /25 Suggestions to help the student improve the paper. Step 3: Second Reading Name of Student Reading Essay 1. Are there at least 3 paragraphs? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 2. Did you use one of the two required thesis statements? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 3. Does Paragraph #2 include the historical background on your country? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 4. Does Paragraph #3 have enough information for someone who doesn’t know about the genocide to understand the genocide? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = 5. Does Paragraph #3 include the comparison of your country to the definition of genocide? Yes = 5 points No = 0 points Points Received = Total Points: /25 Suggestions to help the student improve the paper. Step 4: Self Reflection 2. Where did you score the best? 3. What is your paper still missing?
 * 1) Explain whether there were any differences in the grades you received from the different graders.