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Russell Campbell Rwanda

Have you ever heard the word genocide? You’ve probably heard it when people were talking about death or killing. That’s because genocide by definition is the deliberate and extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. One of the most famous instances of genocide was the holocaust. During the holocaust Hitler organized the killing of millions of Jews. Imagine the holocaust but instead of one man organizing the killing, neighbors walking up to people they’ve known for so long and killing them. The aim of this killing was to wipe out the Tutsi and people affiliated with them therefore classifying this as genocide. What happened in Rwanda was genocide because it follows the eight stages of genocide, there was a mass killing, and the main objective was to exterminate the Tutsi.

What happened in Rwanda was definitely genocide. The Hutus were the perpetrators of this genocide and the Tutsis were the victims. What started the genocide process was when the European colonists settled in. When they arrived they saw the Tutsis and thought they looked more civilized or like an aristocrat and put them in power. The Hutus felt like they were being oppressed and were backed up in say so. The Hutus eventually chose armed rebellion. The Tutsis rebelled back after losing power, starting a civil war. When the president was shot down in a plane, the Hutu used this as an excuse to tell people to kill all Tutsis. That is how the genocide started. Neighbors began to be killed in an orderly fashion. Tutsis were rounded up and killed in schools, churches, etc. The Rwanda genocide was horrible and was definitely genocide.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. In this instance it is definitely genocide. The Hutus are destroying all Tutsis and anything dealing with Tutsis. If people randomly ran around killing everyone it wouldn’t be genocide by law. In this genocide no one wanted no one wanted to admit it was genocide because then the UN would have to take action and no one wanted to. By definition and law what happened in Rwanda was genocide.

The first two stages of genocide are classification and symbolization. Classification is what initially begins the separation of the two groups. They begin to believe there is an us and a them. In Rwanda they called themselves the Hutus and the Tutsis. Symbolization is the next stage of genocide. In symbolization symbols are added to the classifications. In Rwanda everyone needed to carry identity cards that said if they were Hutu or Tutsi. The extremists Hutus would ask for the identity card and if they refused, said Tutsi, didn’t have one, or simply commented they were killed.

The next two stages of genocide are dehumanization and organization. Dehumanization is when one group takes away the humanity of the other. They are commonly associated with vermin and diseases. In Rwanda they were called cockroaches and snakes (things that people kill and are thought of as pests. Organization is when the government begins to organize killings of the victims. Militias and private armies are created and trained so that they can kill the victims effectively. In Rwanda an example of this were the Interahamwe militias who would kill Tutsi on sight.

The next two stages of genocide are polarization and preparation. Polarization is when the two groups are separated and one group is told to hate another by propaganda. Laws are made to prevent one group from being able to have intermarriage with the other. Laws are also made to prevent most daily activities and social interaction. Moderates are intimidated to become extremists and are threatened. Preparation Is when the victim groups are rounded up or are made easy to identify to prepare for the attempts of “extermination” that will follow. In Rwanda the ethnic identity cards are used to identify the Hutus and Tutsi so if an extremist Hutu finds a Tutsi they can kill them right then.

The last two stages of genocide are extermination and denial. Extermination is essentially the “final solution” where the victim group is being totally wiped out. The perpetrators are trying their hardest to annihilate the victim group. This also causes there to be revenge killings after this by each group over and over. In Rwanda this is when the Interahamwe and trained militias began to round up Tutsis in schools and kill them. Denial the last stage of the genocide comes after the killing is done. Denial is one of the most blatant indicators of more and more genocide after this. This is when investigations are prevented, witnesses are intimidated, and evidence is destroyed. The fact that there was genocide at all is denied.

The fact that there was indeed genocide in Rwanda is just that, a fact. The eight stages of genocide can be applied to Rwanda everywhere. If we can see the problems that started this genocide and others like it why can’t we stop the ones that are happening right now? Hopefully we will soon use what we can to help and prevent genocide from ever happening and stop genocides as quickly as possible.

Moises Bermudez Bosnia

Have you ever thought about genocides? Genocides is basically the extermination of a race or religion. The one genocide that not many people know about is the Bosnian genocide. In this genocide, the Serbs (Christians) had tortured and murdered almost 7500 Muslims. Through the course of this essay you will see how the Bosnian war was really an actual genocide. The Bosnia genocide took place from 1992 to 1995. The commander of the Serbian army, during the genocide was a man Ratko Mladik. He was the man who gave the order to move in on all Muslim towns. The reason why this started was that Muslims denied the Serbian Army their land. Thats when they decided to move in on them. The problem for the Serbs was that the Dutch army was interfering with many of their plans. Although they helped fight back they should have come sooner. A lot of innocent Muslims lives could have been spared. The reason why I believe that Bosnian war was genocide is the Serbians almost conquered what they set out to do. The definition of a genocide is a extermination of a race or religion. That defintion can be compared to the Bosnian geniciode because that was happning to them. The Serbs wanted to elimate all of the Muslims throught the land.That was to destroy the many Muslims who lived on their holy land. If it wasn’t for the interference of the Dutch then they could have killed almost all of the Muslims. When the interference came they genocide began, there are 8 stages in genocide.

The 1st stage of genocide is classification. Classification is when segregation of different kinds of people because of their race, religion, or nationality. In the Bosnian genocide you will notice how the Serbs treated the Muslims. Just like when the Serbs had a lot of power and they began using the Muslims as slaves. Not allowing them to do what Serbs do because of their religion. The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolism. Symbolism is when you are able to recognize them by symbols of their race or religion. In Bosnia they did something similar to the Muslims. When Muslims would wear turbans they were able to be spotted by Serbs. That way they know who and what race they were.

The 3rd stage of genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when all humans’ rights are taken away. The group is treated like a dog. In Bosnia, this definition relates to what happened there. Just like when the Serbians took their food and water away from them. Basically forcing them to work as slaves without choice. The 4th stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when groups are moved into ghettos or camps. In Bosnia you will see how they organized the Muslim people. Thus showing when the Serbs moved into Bosnia they made perimeters for the Muslims. Not allowing any Muslims to escape.

The 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when exterminators separate the victims form the perpetration victims. Forbidding them from any of Serbian social interactions. In Bosnia the definition relates to this genocide because of how they separated the people from Muslims. Thus when then started the segregation they allowed all the Christians in Bosnia to have full privileges of whatever they wanted but all Muslims could not do anything they can do. The 6th stage of genocide is preparation. Preparation is a society separated by race, religion, and forced to do whatever they controller wants. In Bosnia they did separate the Muslims and Serbians. Thus they didn't allow them to live in their own land. They couldn't even be seen with any Serbians, if they did it was death.

The 7th stage of genocide is extermination. Extermination is a hard word to say when you think about it. Extermination means a group in power sponsored by the state or armed forces, whipping out another group. To erase them from the earth completely. The way they did that was spraying them with machine guns and grenades in a building. Some were hanged shot or died of lack of food or water. The 8th stage of genocide is denial. Denial is when the controllers try to cover up tracks of the genocide. Denying everything that happened during that time. In Bosnia, they had captured the commander and he was in denial. Thus the Dutch had captured Mladik and charged him and the remaining Serbian army leaders with war crimes. Then the end of the genocide, many peaces were made in Bosnia. They soon regulated the army’s so no genocides will ever happen again.

Many people will disagree that bosnia want a genocide but it indeed is. The eight stages of genocide can be applied to the many Bosnia's who live there. know that we know what the 8 stages of genocides are. will we use these steps to stop future genocides." its better to be safe, then sorry" is what my uncle use to say. lets use the steps help and prevent genocide from ever happening


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 * //Talking about Bosnian Genocide.// Genocide, 20 Apr. 2000. Web**


 * //What Is Genocide?// United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1 Apr. 2010. Web. 26 Sep. 2010. .**

Stanton, Gregory. H. //Preventgenocideinternational.// 11 July 1998. 26 Sep. 2010. .

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For 600 years in Rwanda the Tutsis and the Hutus have lived peacefully. They have shared cultures, language, business of farming, and many other things between each other. That would soon change. Tutsis minority were blamed by Hutu extremists in Rwanda’s political elite for increasing of social, economic, and political pressures(document unknown). This was one of many reasons why the two groups started to hate each other. During this time period some much was happening, like the killing of Rwanda’s president and the formation of RPF. All this lead up to a genocide. The genocide of Rwanda can actually be called a genocide, because it is referring to violent crimes done by a group whose mission was to destroy the existence of another group, no one had the tension to stop it, and it follows the 8 stages of genocide. Rwanda, is located in the center of Africa. At the time of 1994 Rwanda’s had a population of 7 million people. It was made up of three groups the Tutsis, 85% Hutus, 14% Tutsis, and 1% Twa. They have all lived together for 600 years without any problems. There has even been inter marriages between them. When the European colonists is when problems started. Belgians who practice of colonial administrators to choose a group who would be privileged and educated between governor and governed(document unknown). They choose the Tutsis, some Tutsis began to act like aristrocats,and Hutus felt like peasants. The Europeans had also introduced modern weapons and modern methods of waging war. Missionaries also from Europe, taught the Hutus to feel as if they were the leaders of Rwanda, which caused a revolution, 100,000 people died. In 1959 the Hutus were in power and took land from Tutsis which is were the Tutsis formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front(RPF). When the Hutus were in power was when problems got seriously and Tutsis were banned from many things such as secondary schools and universities. In 1990 RPF rebelled, creating civil war. On April 6 1994 a plane that had Rwanda’s president a Hutu was shot down. The Hutus blamed the Tutsis. This is all the Hutus needed to plan the final solution, which was to kill all Tutsis creating the Rwanda genocide. Definition of genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable, but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The later stages must be preceded by the earlier stages, though earlier stages continue to operate through out the process(from document unknown). Everything stated in the definition of a genocide had happened in Rwanda. The definition states that at each stage measures can stop it, at each stage preventive measure could of stop it. Powerful countries such as the U.S. could have helped prevent each stage from happening. The most important thing that made it a genocide was that it passed through the eight stages of genocide, from classification through denial. The first stage of genocide was classification. Classification is to catorigize people by race, ethnicity, and religion. While the genocide was happening the Hutus separated the Tutsis from the Hutus. Thus meeting the first stage of genocide. The second stage is symbolization. Symbolization is when people are symbolized by their color, religion, or what they wear. In this case for the Rwanda it was if they were a Tutsi or not. Dehumanization was next as the fourth stage. Dehumanization is when a group of people are separated from others and are seen as animals, and stripped from their land. Even before the genocide in 1959 the Hutus seized power and were stripping Tutsis from their land. Organization was the fourth stage. Organization is when the genocide is always organized. The Rwanda genocide meet this standard because it was organized by the Hutu government. Thus meeting the fourth stage requirements of the fourth stage organization. Polarization the fifth stage is when the determinist separate the victims from the perpetrators. Victims are forbidden from social interactions. In the genocide of Rwanda the Tutsis were forbidden from secondary schools, and the university. This meet the requirement for polarization. Preparation is the six stage of genocide. Preparation means society is separated race and religion. All members are forced into ghettos and concentration camps. The Tutsis were separated from the Hutus because of the group they are from. This meet the definition of preparation even though they weren’t forced into ghettos or concentration camps. The next stage probably the most important the seventh. The seventh stage was extermination. Extermination was the mass killing of people. The Hutus killed any Tutsis they found. They killed men, women, and children in the streets, churches, and in thousands of school. This meet the seventh requirement of extermination. The last and certainly not the least was denial. Denial was the perpetrators of genocide digging up graves of the victims, trying to hide all the evidence denying everything they have done. In the Rwanda genocide the perpetrators the Hutus fled over the borders about 50% of them to Congo trying to hide the fact that they were even part of the genocide. One group trying to destroy the extinction of another group, no one trying to stop it and, going through the 8 stages of genocide the Rwanda genocide can actually be looked as a genocide. This all happened because the Europeins influence both the Hutus and the Tutsi to look at one another differently. This genocide could have been prevented but no one had the tension to stop it. Powerful countries had the power and weapons to stop it but didn’t even try. That was immoral of them to do because they could of save thousands of life’s. In the future I think that every powerful countries should help prevent something like a genocide from happening ever again. If every powerful country can do this then there wouldn’t be so much people getting humiliated, getting there land taken away from them, and most importantly there life’s.

Edgardo Mata Bosnia

Have you ever been discriminated? How would it feel to be discriminated for something that doesn't even tie to you? There is a time where a group of people where being killed just because of their religion. What happened in Bosnia was a genocide because some Bosnians were doing all these different things to Muslims, they were even trying to exterminate that religion. Bosnia was in a genocide because all the 8 stages of a genocide were accruing in Bosnia over that period of time.

Bosnia has alot of mountains regions. Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs were having a rival war with Muslims. They were having this war because one was a different race and religion. Muslims were hated by the Serbs .The Bosnia genocide took place from 1992 to 1995 .Serbs troops were killing and separating innocent Muslim men and boy over the age of 13 from woman just because of there being.

Bosnia's genocide was very tragic. Alot of innocent lives were lost. The definition of genocide is "The Deliberate extermination of a racial, religious or ethnic group."(Chambers Dictionary) In Bosnia the Serb troops were trying to exterminate the Muslims. Not only did they try to exterminate them they work.

The first stage of genocide is classification. Classification is when two groups are separated because of race and religion. In Bosnia Classification was done when the Serbs were separated from the Muslims and extermination of Muslims was happening. Thus it does meets the stage .The second stage of genocide is symbolism .In Bosnia the Muslims were called Bosniaks instead of Muslims. Thus this does meet the symbolism stage in genocide

The third stage in genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when human rights are tooken away from people .In Bosnia Dehumanization happened because the Muslims had all their rights tooken away from them. Thus this does meet this stage because it matches with the definition. The fourth stage of genocide is organization. Organization is when groups were moved to places like camps. In Bosnia they killed men and boys. Thus Serbs trapped them so they could not get away from their deaths.

The fifth stage in genocide is polarization. Polarization is when one group is separated from another and made to believe false statements .Thus this connects because the Muslims were sent to camps and separated from other groups. The sixth stage in genocide is Preparation. Preparation is when people were identified and separated due to religion or race, In Bosnia the Muslims were segregated from other groups such as the Serbs.

The seventh stag of genocide is Extermination. Extermination is when someone in power is taking over or whipping out another group. In Bosnia the Muslims were being killed by the coats and Serbs. Thus the Muslims were helpless against the attack of the Christians. The eighth stage of genocide is Denial .Denial is when you request any affiliation to anything and you get rejected from your request. In Bosnia the Muslim were rejected from foods in the camps. There was only water and very little of it. Thus they were turning very weak.

Bosnia turned out to be a genocide .What had happen in Bosnia is speechless and total representation of genocide. Bosnia is genocide because everything that happen during that time period all connects with the 8 stages of genocide. Therefore it must be a genocide .If the war never ended how the world will be today if it was still going on? MLA Format **//Talking about Bosnian Genocide.// Genocide, 10 Apr. 2001. Web** http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htp. Preventgenocideinternational. //Preventgenocideinternational.// 11 Feb. 2004. 25 Sep. 2010.www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htp

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 * //What Is Genocide?// United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 5 Apr. 2010. Web. 24 Sep. 2010. .**

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Juan A Calderon Period 3 Group 7 September 20, 2010 Armenia

Can you really answer if the war in Armenia was Genocide or not? What is the definition of Genocide? Genocide is the deliberate killing f a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation. So that is definitely happened Armenia people were shot, killed, stabbed, massacred and other terrible things. In general Armenia has experienced a lot from 1909-1915. In 1909-1915 Armenian’s first world war broke. The First World War broke do to the Turkish. He world war efforts were to restore Armenian territory, but the Turk were ignoring all treaties. In 1915 Armenians called for the massacres after acknowledged it as Genocide. So this proves weather it’s Genocide or not. In conclusion this all proves how the Armenians and the Turkish went to war and tried to settle it. Back in the day in the beginning of deportation a large number of Armenian men were tied up together or arrested by the Turks. The Turk would take them away from their outskirts towns, and would be shot or stabbed to death. After the Turks would go back to the town and gather up women children and the elderly. After they would be sent to some non-military camp place, which the Turks lie about it, and instead of resting they would work like slaves. If any of the Turks felt like it they could have the right to rape and kill the women with out any worries. This would be really bad place to live in. this also proves that this is a Genocide. The 1st stage of Genocide classification. Classification is when dividing people into groups. Having them separated by race, looks, cultural etc. Armenia had been classified in Armenia they had been separated with other countries. For example Turks ruled the west Russians ruled and the east so they can be separated in a part of a way. The 2nd stage of genocide is symbolization. Symbolization is a way to represent or distinguish a group. Based by its color, signs, and names. In Armenia people represented a group another example is The Armenians were not distinguished like Jewish were in the holocaust when they had to were a yellow star symbol in there clothing. The 3rd stage of Genocide is dehumanization. Dehumanization is when an act that makes a human less than someone else. In Armenia people felt that they were less than others. The young Armenians were to go to the military just how the Americans did it. It is actually wrong but nobody did anything about it. Going back to 1915 3oo Armenian writers, thinkers, and others were killed or deported. All of these terrible tragedies were cause by the Turkish Government. The Armenian Genocide started a war in Anatolia. Not just that they all occurred in the west coast. As for the 4th Genocide stage is organization. Organization is when having a plot or plan being divided having a task set. In Armenia Turkish had plotted for Armenians to be separated by men, women, elderly, and children. Thus Armenia does fit in the stage of organization. That when the men were being killed and women and kids were becoming slaves.

The 5th stage of genocide is polarization. Polarization is when extremist drive the groups apart. Segregate two different groups of people to be unable to socialize or interact with each other. So that is when the Armenians can’t talk to each without permission. They were separated due to their age and gender. If they were really old they would be killed. The 6th stage of Genocide is preparation. Preparation is when they are separated because of their ethnic or religious identity. The second to last stage of Genocide is the 7th. This one is called extermination. Extermination is a quick mass killing legally called genocide. The Turkish would kill who ever disobeys an order from an Armenian, which in other words called extermination. Last but not least the 8th stage of Genocide. This last one is called denial. Denial is when they try to hide the evidence that genocide happened. In Armenia all of the Turks tried to keep everything a secret. When they huge massacres it would be done anywhere as long no one knows. So no one actually knew about it. All of these stages mean something to Armenia. To tell the truth this all symbolizes something. A lot of bad things have gone wrong in Armenia, from going to shootings, wars, slavery, and massacres. Armenia population still lives on today. Hopefully Armenia stays in peace just the way it should be.

Josue Huarcaya Armenia Genocide Mr. Sterrett Period: 3

How can a war start a genocide in a small country like Armenia? Well what happened in Armenia was a genocide. A genocide is when a certain group of people want to delete or destroy an entire population because of their race, color and religion and it happens in 8 stages that describes this horrific situation.

During the war of 1915 the “Young Turks” also known as a new government decide to wipe out the Armenian population because of their religion Christianity and wanted them to become Muslims. They invaded Armenian territory leaving them without protection for themselves. Women watched their husbands being killed, children witnessed their mothers being raped children and elderly were abused. In Armenia people were being kicked out of their homes and started to be segregated by religion process called classification. Their symbol was Christianity and they were being separated according to religion by the Turkish forces about 1.8 million were deported from their homes process called symbolization. Women, man, children and elderly were not respected and were nude all the time. Armenian children and women were force to walk over to the prison camps for months and were also physically abused process called dehumanization. The Armenian Genocide was being reported by the new technology they ordered police stations and militia to carry out their operation. Perpetrators kept in touch trough telegraph, category called organization.

In Armenia, the government didn’t drive the groups apart but they just wanted to kill the Armenian population process called polarization. Thus making the genocide not meets its requirements because the Armenians were just killed. In Armenia, they were separated because of race. Although making the genocide meets the requirements because they were separated because of their race process called preparation. In Armenia the Turkish government were trying to get rid of all the Armenian population. The process is called extermination because the Turkish soldiers were Muslims and wanted to kill all Christians. Turks used the militia to dig mass graves and hide all the evidence of the murdered bodies. When the Armenians were deported some died of dehydration and they died and their bodies were buried. This process is called Denial because the militia build graves to hide the evidence of the Armenians. The Armenians had to go through this genocide because of the incredulous people that hated the Christians and wanted to exterminate them. Genocides mostly happen during wars and us like humans have rights but they are not respected. A Genocide like the Armenian Genocide should not be allowed to happen again for any reason. Although the Turkish forces were denying the Genocide there was a lot of clues that have lead to this horrific day.