Essays on Genocide

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...

Large Scale Crime’s affect the World; the most common large scale crime is genocide. Genocide is to purposefully eliminate a society or ethnic group. One of the most talked about Genocides in history is The Holocaust, 6 million Jews suffered at the hands of the...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

‘Hotel Rwanda’ is a movie released in 2004, showing the events of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide viewed by hotel manager, Paul Rusesabagina. Romeo Dallaire, head of the United Nation’s Mission in Rwanda criticizes how the movie portrayed the genocide in its accuracy of events. He...

Genocide, in which mass amounts of a specific group of people are killed, and cultural genocide, in which the culture of a group is forced in extinction, often arises from violent conflicts that typically have at least one of two main factors driving them: religion...

The Holocaust is remembered as the period in which the mass annihilation of the Jewish community happened across Europe. Nazi propaganda widely promoted antisemitic views, the superiority of the “Aryan race,” and the persecution of those deemed “inferior” or “useless.” Although Jews were the most...

The Holocaust was a horrendous event in our world’s history. In this piece, I intend to explain the impact of the holocaust on Jewish peoples in Europe and Israel, and how extremely impressive it was in our world today. I hope to answer questions like...

During the 20th century, The United States started to push for the inclusion of Holocaust education in our schools with much less attention given to arguably similar tragedies, such as the Rwanda genocide. It is proven, through multiple educators’ syllabi and lesson plans, that the...

“Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning. The Nazis took their ideas from the racial-biological thinking of the...

During World War 2 (1939-1945) six million Jewish people were murdered at the hands of the German Government. The systematic killing of a large group of people that all share a particular trait is called genocide. In this case, people were murdered on the basis...

The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored prosecution and mass murder...

The 20th century stands out as the millennium that witnessed the greatest upheaval in the global social and political landscapes. The many cases of genocides and wars during this era paint a picture of a conflicted world where the elites unleash a wave of violence...

The Holocaust occurred in 1941 and went through 1945. It took place in certain parts of Europe that resulted in the genocide of European Jews. With the popularization and growing sentiments of Anti-Semitic canard, the Nazi Party managed to murder just over six million Jews....

The quest for justice within Cambodia as a response to the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities from 1975 to 1979 has encountered continuous political debate and manoeuvring. With the opening of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in 2003, it has clearly illustrated the challenges and complexities involved with...

The following research report explores the views and perspectives of various nations of the world regarding Xinjiang’s human rights abuse. Articles from various corners of the world and of distinct matters were studied to gain information on China’s repression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. The...

Rwanda is one the poorest countries of the world: its HPI-1 is of the 44,5%. The causes of economic weakness are to be found in the distance from the sea, in the economic dependence on the export of tea and coffee and in the precarious...

The three major themes that occurred in the story, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, are the desire for friendship, boundaries, and the innocence of childhood. To begin, John Boyne explored the theme of friendship by having Bruno wander to the fence of the camp,...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...