genocide

Examples of genocide in the following topics:

• The Armenian Genocide

• Genocide

  • While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations CPPCG, which specifies that genocide entails:
  • Genocide scholars such as Gregory Stanton have postulated various conditions and acts that often occur before, during, and after genocide.
  • Organization:"Genocide is always organized...
  • At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. ..."
  • Other authors have focused on the structural conditions leading up to genocide and the psychological and social processes that create an evolution toward genocide.

• The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah (Hebrew for "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed approximately six million Jews.
  • The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages, culminating in what Nazis termed the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question," an agenda to exterminate Jews in Europe.
  • All branches of Germany's bureaucracy were engaged in the logistics that led to the genocides, turning the Third Reich into what one Holocaust scholar, Michael Berenbaum, has called "a genocidal state":
  • In many other genocides, pragmatic considerations such as control of territory and resources were central to the genocide policy.
  • No genocide to date had been based so completely on myths, on hallucinations, on abstract, nonpragmatic ideology—which was then executed by very rational, pragmatic means.

• The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II.
  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II. 
  • Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories, with Nazi-occupied Poland constituting the geographical hub of the genocide.
  • The Nazis used the phrase "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" and the formula "Final Solution" has been widely used as a term for the genocide of the Jews.
  • In many other genocides, pragmatic considerations such as control of territory and resources were central to the genocide policy.

• Casualties of World War II

  • Some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
  • Many of the civilians died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.
  • An estimated 11 to 17 million civilians died either as a direct or as an indirect result of Nazi ideological policies, including the systematic genocide of around 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, along with a further 5 to 6 million ethnic Poles and other Slavs (including Ukrainians and Belarusians)—Roma, homosexuals, and other ethnic and minority groups.

• Famine and Oppression

  • The scale of the Ukrainian famine has led many Ukrainian scholars to argue that there was a deliberate policy of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
  • The Holodomor (Ukrainian for "Extermination by hunger"), also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, was a man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5–7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates.
  • Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and 24 other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet Union.
  • Using Holodomor in reference to the famine emphasizes its man-made aspects, arguing that actions such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs, and restriction of population movement confer intent, defining the famine as genocide; the loss of life has been compared to the Holocaust.
  • If Soviet policies and actions were conclusively documented as intending to eradicate the rise of Ukrainian nationalism, they would fall under the legal definition of genocide.

• Clinton and Foreign Policy

  • During the conflict, the Serbs engaged in genocide, described by some as “ethnic cleansing.”
  • The sting of the Somalia failure probably contributed to Clinton’s reluctance to send U.S. forces to end the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
  • In 1998, while visiting Rwanda, Clinton apologized for having done nothing to save the lives of the 800,000 massacred in 100 days of genocidal slaughter.

• Namibia

  • During German occupation of this region, about one third of the population was wiped out in a genocide that continues to provoke historical and political debates.
  • Known as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, it was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment.
  • It is considered one of the first genocides of the 20th century, taking place between 1904 and 1907 during the Herero Wars.

• Antithesis

  • Antithesis is also a way to describe contrasting ideas or themes: genocide is the antithesis of world peace, for example.

• The Development of Holidays

  • Much like Columbus Day, Thanksgiving is seen by many as a celebration of the genocide and conquest of American Indians by European colonists.
  • Since 1970, the United American Indians of New England organization has accused the United States and European settlers of fabricating the Thanksgiving story and of whitewashing the genocide of and injustice against American Indians.