Essays on Genocide

In our unstable world a lot of crimes are committed on the grounds of discrimination. And among such crimes the crime of genocide is to be the most violent and the most difficult to prove. This crime is characterized by the specific intent to destroy...

In 1994, Raphael Lemkin termed crimes committed against individuals, not by their capacity as an individual, but because of their membership in a group, as Genocide. The extermination of almost a million of Armenians residing in Turkey during the first World War I and the...

Toward the start of the thirteenth century a dry spell more noteworthy than any amid the written history of the region went to the Great Plains. As the downpours fizzled quite a long time and the harvests shriveled in the fields, hunters and horticulturalists who...

While it is often hard to dictate one single culprit and factor in any historical event, one of the more prominent roots of Rwanda’s problems and challenges is usually traced to 1916 when Belgium began governing Rwanda after the end of World War I. It...

Wars have distinct ways of eruption and escalation. In many instances, wars are foreseen and expected, while in other times they seem rather abrupt and unexpected. Before the 1990s, the world saw more wars based on ideological stances than ethnic strife. However, since the end...

In his book, Ordinary Men, Christopher R. Browning creates a vivid and heart wrenching depiction of the genocide of the Jewish population living in Poland during the 1940’s. Approximately six million Jews were killed throughout the course of the Holocaust. Thousands of Nazi soldiers, under...

Armenia is a small country located in the south Caucasus and is the smallest of the former Soviet republics. Armenia is bounded by Georgia in the north, Azerbaijan in the east, Iran on the south and Turkey in the west.It is a land of rugged...

Throughout history, and especially in this class, the topic of mass killings such as genocide has been brought up on many occasions and put under the microscope; from the many angles that come from each person that comes in contact with genocide, to the motives,...

In the aftermath of World War II and the Cold War, the world was in ruins because of the mass destruction brought upon it. It was recorded that in the 1990’s, one of the deadliest genocide cases since World War II had occurred in Bosnia...

It is not fair when your government, the individuals you voted for and put your trust in have failed you. That is not what they are put in their position of power to do you would expect them to handle their position with high standards...

The Holodomor was an atrocious event also known as ‘Hunger Plague’, which began in the year of 1932 and ended in the year of 1933 causing more than seven million deaths. The Holodomor was designed to destroy the nation of Ukraine and especially the farmers....

The Armenian Genocide is still a topic that brings deep emotional feelings as well as hotly debated subjects, one of the more provocative subjects that have continued to be debated is in what role if any, Germany, who was the Ottomans ally at the time,...

The aftermath of genocide and mass violence has become a popular topic of interest over time. Genocide and episodes of mass violence have the ability to impact relationships between diverse groups of people and conflict. Genocide has a major impact on nations, ethnic group and...

Witnessing history through the lenses of literature can be a daunting one. It is evident that fiction and history share a bipolar relation within writing, and constructing a text which involving both elements is a sensitive issue in the intellectual community today. Journalist & novelist...

Rwanda. The name of a country which is now only known for an unofficial and blatantly ignored genocide. One million people massacred in the space of one hundred days, yet nothing was done to help. In Levi-Strauss’s article ‘A sea of grief is not a...

The “Rwandan Genocide” happen between April and June of 1994. During just 100 days 800,000 Rwandans were killed. Some of the reasons the Genocide occurred since 1916 when Belgian colonists arrived, and produced identity cards in which Tutsis were considered to be superior to the...

Languages French, English, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili are the official languages that are spoken by the Republic of Rwanda. With more than 12 million speakers, Kinyarwanda is a Bantu ethnic language in various countries including: the Demographic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. In Rwanda, the only...