Deconstructing Genocide

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Deconstructing Genocide

• The World War II Holocaust

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We hate some persons because we do not know
them, and will not know them because we hate
them.Charles Caleb ColtonWriter
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Genocide

• Main Entry genocide Pronunciation \'je-n?
  ?sid\ Function noun Date 1944  the deliberate
  and systematic destruction of a racial,
  political, or cultural group
• genocidal \?je-n?-'si-d?l\ adjective

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Step 1 Ignorance

• Between the 100 B.C.E and 100 C.E., the Jewish
  people of the Roman Empire were seen as disloyal
  due to their beliefs in one god and refusal to
  worship the emperors.

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Step 2 Differences

• In 70 C.E., Christianity split from Judaism.
• Since the beginning of Christianity, followers
  were taught that the Jews had killed their
  savior.
• Constantine the Greats conversion to
  Christianity inspired a continental change,
  leaving Jews in the misunderstood minority.

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Step 3 Prejudice

• The Middle Ages brought suffering to the Jews.
  They were stripped of their rights to
  citizenship, government, military, and membership
  in ever-growing guilds.
• Between 1290 and 1569, England (1290), Germany
  (1350), France (1400), Spain (1492), Portugal
  (1496), Provence (1512), and the Papal States(
  1569) refused to allow any Jews to live within
  their borders.

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Step 4 Violence

• The first of many, 1903s pogroms were
  encouraged in former Kishinyov, Russia, now
  Chisinau. These pogroms were violent attacks on
  the Jewish people, stealing from , killing, and
  raping many.
• July 10, 1941, Polish civilians killed hundreds
  of Jews in the streets of Jedwabne.

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Step 5 Genocide

• On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler, head of the
  anti-Semite Nazi party, is appointed Chancellor
  of Germany.
• August of 1934 brought the death of the German
  president, leaving Hitler in control. The
  Holocaust begins.
• Over the next twelve years, approximately six
  million Jews are systematically murdered by the
  German government. Their loss is accompanied by
  two to three million Russian POWs, 200,000
  gypsies, 200,000 disabled persons, and a number
  who didnt fit the Nazi ideal.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned
to repeat it.George SantayanaPhilosopher
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Cambodia, Asia

• In 1976, the government of the Democratic
  Kampuchea forced the population out of their
  homes, enslaving them in rice fields.
• The tyranny resulted in 1.5 million deaths, about
  20 of the Cambodian population from disease,
  starvation, and murder.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe

• Beginning on April 7, 1992, ethnic cleansing
  erupted.
• Bosnian Serbs bombed large majorly Muslim towns.
• Following, most Muslims were forced to leave
  their homes.

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Rwanda, Africa

• In 1994, the Rwandan government encouraged
  killing of the Tutsi people carried out by the
  Hutu.
• The group committed a mass rape of Tutsi women by
  HIV- infected men, in the hopes that the women
  would die of the disease.

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Darfur, Sudan, Africa

• Today, the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit tribes are
  the targets of genocide.
• Their villages are burned and bombed, property
  stolen, people killed, starved, raped, and
  diseased.
• More than two and a half million refugees have
  fled their homes thus far.

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The victims, crimes, and captors vary, but the
inhumanity is constant. Compassion is the only
prevention.
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