Pre-Writing Activity With someone sitting next to you, discuss the following questions: - What is genocide? - Where has it occurred? Record your and your partner’s answers on a sheet of paper that you will turn in at the end of the period.

The eight stages of genocide, as defined by Gregory H. Stanton

What are the eight stages of genocide? Classification Symbolization Dehumanization Organization Polarization Preparation Extermination Denial

Stage One: CLASSIFICATION Insert Photo Here

Stage One: CLASSIFICATION Everyday, we speak in terms of “us” and “them.” Our team and their team. Americans and Iraqis. Christians and Muslims. Straights and gays.

Stage One: CLASSIFICATION PREVENTION: Promote common identities. Use common languages. Actively oppose racist and divisive politicians and parties.

Stage Two: SYMBOLIZATION

Stage Two: SYMBOLIZATION Once groups are classified, they typically - either of their own volition to establish their identity or by force so that the dominant group can easily identify them - adopt symbols so that they can be told apart. Again, this stage is one that does not necessarily lead to genocide.

Stage Two: SYMBOLIZATION PREVENTION: Protest negative or racist words for groups. Work to make them culturally unacceptable.

Stage Three: DEHUMANIZATION

Stage Three: DEHUMANIZATION One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of that group are equated with rodents, insects, other vermin, and even diseases.

Stage Three: DEHUMANIZATION PREVENTION: * Provide programs for tolerance to radio, TV, and newspapers. * Enlist religious and political leaders to speak out and educate for tolerance.

Stage Four: ORGANIZATION

Stage Four: ORGANIZATION To a certain extent, you should think of this stage as the proverbial “calm before the storm.” The roots of the final stages are beginning to take hold, but very little is actually being done to the victimized group yet.

Stage Four: ORGANIZATION PREVENTION: * Treat genocidal groups as the organized crime groups they are.

Stage Five: POLARIZATION “Go where you wanted me to go, you evil spirit.”

Stage Five: POLARIZATION During this stage, the groups are driven even further apart ideologically. At this stage, it is not just the victimized group that suffers. Any “sympathizers” or moderates are either threatened or attacked by the dominant, oppressing group.

Stage Five: POLARIZATION PREVENTION: * Vigorously protest laws or policies that segregate or marginalize groups, or that deprive whole groups of citizenship rights.

Stage Six: PREPARATION

Stage Six: PREPARATION Whereas in the previous stage the victimized group was separated ideologically from the dominant group, in this stage the victimized group is separated physically from the rest of the society.

Stage Six: PREPARATION PREVENTION: * Humanitarian relief should be prepared.

Stage Seven: EXTERMINATION This is the stage where this process legally becomes genocide. Mass killings occur quickly and systematically.

Stage Seven: EXTERMINATION PREVENTION: * Sales of oil and imports of gasoline should be stopped by blockade of ports and land routes. * The Rules of Engagement must be robust and include aggressive prevention of killing.

Stage Eight: DENIAL

Stage Eight: DENIAL If intervention does not occur during the seventh stage of genocide, denial always follows extermination. Mass graves are dug up and bodies are burned; the evidence that the genocide ever occurred is systematically eradicated. Witnesses are bribed, intimidated, or killed. Investigations into the crimes are blocked by the government that committed the atrocities. Typically, the victims of the genocide are blamed for their fates if their disappearance is brought up.

Stage Eight: DENIAL EXAMPLES: Claim that the deaths were inadvertent (due to famine, migration, or disease.) Blame “out of control” forces for the killings. Blame the deaths on ancient ethnic conflicts.

Homework ON YOUR PAPER: How has your understanding of genocide changed during this class period? Assuming that I did not show you this to make you uncomfortable or sicken you, why did I share these stages and these images of genocide with you? Please write roughly half of a page.

You can find the information in this presentation at www.genocidewatch.org/8stages.htm. This website also contains suggestions about how to stop genocide at each of the stages. Images taken from http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/sturmer.htm and various sources found through Google Images.

Genocide in History Genocides From 1500-1950 There are many cases of Genocide which have existed throughout our history dating back to biblical times. Genocides From 1500-1950 The Native Canadian people(Mi’kmaw, Beothuk) The Congo 1820-1920 Ottoman Empire (1932–1933) Holodomor World War II Mao Zedong

Native Canadian People Population declined 80-90% in the first 100 years After the arrival of the Europeans in 1492- Native populations began to drastically decrease. Some methods of genocide included Murder Infected smallpox blankets Scalping Proclamations Treaties Centralization (1942) The Indian Act (Residential Schools) 1928-1982

The Congo21.5 million people died in Congo from 1880-1920 The population decreased due to murder, disease, starvation. Congo “Free State” was privately owned by King Leopold II and he started the mass murders and slave labor. In 1908 end of Leopold’s rule

Holodomor 1932-1933 7,000,000 to 15,000,000 people, mostly Ukrainians, died Famine was the act of Genocide committed by the Soviet Govern. In 1932 the Soviets increased grain production 44%, which resulted in Grain Shortage- the peasants could not feed themselves. The Soviet knew this, but would not let them eat (by law) until the quota was met. They could not travel for food. Stalin states that “"the great bulk (of the 10 million) were very unpopular and were wiped out by their labourers."

Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) Up to 1 Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) Up to 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered The Ottoman Empire (Turkish) existed from 1299 to 1923. They were responsible for the following: Deportation of 2,000,000 from their homeland- 1,500,000 of the men, women and children were then murdered. 500,000 were expelled from the Armenian homeland which existed for 2,500 years. The Turkish gov. disputes these charges 15 countries agree (France and Russia)

WORLD WAR II 1939-1945 Over 11 million People were killed. During the Holocaust the Nazis’ killed 6million Jews, 3 million POW’s, 2 million Poles and 400,000 other “undesirables”(slaves, homosexuals and communists) The holocaust was most predominant from previous genocides because of the cruelty, scale and efficiency of the mass murders. People were killed by: open-air shootings, by killing squads, extermination camps (gas chambers, mass shootings)

Mao Zedong killed 30 million Chinese people during his reign in 1945-1976 Although World War II is the most common Genocide that occurred during 1500-1950’s, it is very important for us to understand the other cases of Genocide that have occurred throughout our history and our World.

Genocides from 1951-Present Cambodia (1975–1979) Saddam Hussein's Baath Party Rwanda 1994 Sudan

Cambodia 1975-1979 The Khmer Rouge killed 1.7 million The communist party Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979. They were responsible for forced labour, starvation, and execution. This was one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century. This communist party killed “suspect ethnic groups”- Chinese, Vietnamese,Buddhist monks, and refugees.

Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party In 1987-1991 (approx) the Baath Party killed 100,000 Kurds. (The Kurds are people of Indo-European origin who live mainly in the mountains and uplands where Turkey, Iraq, and Iran meet, in an area known as "Kurdistan" for hundreds of years) The Gulf War (1990) It is estimated that 300,000 people are buried in 260 mass graves. 1991-2003- Estimates of 500,000 to 1.2 million people were killed through bombings. After the September 11, 2001 attacks- the US invaded Iraq-2003 Saddam was captured.

RWANDA 1994 The Rwandan Genocide was the slaughter of an estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, mostly carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups (Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi) during a period of 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994. The Western and First World Countries did nothing to help this situation. Prior to the attacks the UN did not respond to reports of the Hutu plans. This Genocide was ended when the Tutsi rebel movement (Rwandese Political Front) lead by Paul Kagame seized power of the Hutu Government.

Rwanda 1994 “Hutu Mobs armed with machetes and other weapons killed roughly 8,000 Tutsis a day during a three-month campaign of terror. Powerful nations stood by as the slaughter surged on despite pleas from Rwandan and UN observers” National Geographic 2006.

Sudan Civil War 1983- Sudan signed a peace agreement in 2002- where they were accused of genocide. Since the civil war began in 1983: 2,000,000 people have been killed 4, 000, 000 people have been displaced. Mukesh Kapila ( UN coordinator) has stated that "This is more than just a conflict. It is an organised attempt [by Khartoum] to do away with a group of people. The only difference between Rwanda [in 1994] and Darfur now is the numbers of dead, murdered, tortured and raped involved“.

Sudan Cont… In 2004, it became widely known that a nomadic group Janjaweed was trying to get rid of 80 black African groups in the Darfur region. This was is very similar to Rwanda. However professional/intellectuals are not being attacked- it is a fight between the nomads and farmers for land. There is risk of famine and a threat to international security.