Genocide

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Genocide jen-uh-sahyd

• noun the deliberate and systematic extermination
  of a national, racial, political, or cultural
  group.

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Trail of Tears

• The New Echota Treaty of 1833 relinquished
  Cherokee Indian claims to lands east of the
  Mississippi River. The majority of the Cherokee
  people considered this treaty fraudulent and
  refused to leave their homelands in Georgia,
  Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee. 7,000
  Federal and State troops were ordered into the
  Cherokee Nation to forcibly evict the Indians. On
  May 26th, 1838, the roundup began. Over 15,000
  Cherokees were forced from their homes at
  gunpoint and imprisoned in stockades until
  removal to the west could take place. 2,700 left
  by boat in June 1838, but, due to many deaths
  sickness removal was suspended until cooler
  weather. Most of the remaining 13,000 Cherokees
  left by wagon, horseback, or by foot during
  October November, 1838, on an 800 mile route
  through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri,
  Arkansas. They arrived in what is now eastern
  Oklahoma during January, February, March, 1839.
  Disease, exposure, and starvation may have
  claimed as many as 4,000 Cherokee lives during
  the course of capture, imprisonment, and removal.
  The ordeal has become known as the Trail of
  Tears.
• Georgia Historic Marker

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Genocide Today

• D a r f u r

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The government of Sudan

• Trains supports ethnic militias
• Arms Arab militias, disarms largely African
  ethnic groups

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Uses rape as a weapon
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Bombs civilian buildings
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Uses mass starvation as a weapon of destruction
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Allows enslavement of women children by ethnic
militias
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Uses mass forcible displacement as a weapon of
destruction
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Destroys indigenous cultures
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Genocide Today

• R w a n d a

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No less than 500,000 Tutsi were killed between
April and July 1994 when a Hutu extremist-led
government set out to murder the entire Tutsi
minority
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Genocide Today

• B o s n i a

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Between 1992 and 1995 Bosnian Serbs murdered
around 100,000 Bosniaks and Crotians in an effort
of ethnic cleansingIt was the largest
massacre in Europe since the Holocaust
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Genocide Today

• DR of Congo

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War sparked in the aftermath of the Rwandan
genocide has resulted in continuous fighting
violence in the East of the DR of Congo
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Violence in the East includesForced
displacementAbductionsLootingForceful
recruitment use of child soldiersMass sexual
violence
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27,000 sexual assaults were reported in 2006 in
the South Kivu Province alone

• That represents only the assaults that were
  officially reported

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Other Places Experiencing Genocide Today

• Burundi

Chechnya, Russia
Civil war between Burundi's ruling Tutsi elite
and rebels from the majority Hutu population
began in 1993. It resulted in the death of an
estimated 300,000 people, the flight of 500,000
refugees, and the internal displacement of
800,000 persons. United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
In 1999, a massive Russian military force
entered Chechnya, devastating it. Russian
President Vladimir Putin proclaimed Chechnya
pacified by Spring 2000. But peace remained
elusive for Chechen civilians, victims of a
continuing war of attrition. -United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum
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How to Take Action Against Genocide

• Donate to organizations that work to prevent
  genocide help victims of genocide
• Join or volunteer for an organization that works
  to prevent/help victims of genocide
• Spread the word educate others about the
  genocides of today

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Ex What Ive Done Against Genocide

• Sign up for the United State Holocaust Memorial
  Museums Genocide Prevention e-Newsletter
• Purchased 2 T-Shirts from Deliver Darfur,
  proceeds go to the International Rescue Committee
• Pledged on the United State Holocaust Memorial
  Museums Pledge Wall
• Educate my peers on the genocides happening today
• Joined causes on Facebook such as Save Darfur

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What will you do to meet the challenge of
genocide today?

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an
  unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the
  course of history
• Mohandas Gandhi