GENOCIDE

A crime without a name… “The aggressor ... retaliates by the most frightful cruelties. As his Armies advance, whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands - literally scores of thousands - of executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German Police-troops upon the Russian patriots who defend their native soil. Since the Mongol invasions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century, there has never been methodical, merciless butchery on such a scale, or approaching such a scale. “And this is but the beginning. Famine and pestilence have yet to follow in the bloody ruts of Hitler's tanks. “We are in the presence of a crime without a name.” - Winston Churchill describing the brutality of the German forces occupying Russia, 1941.

Genocide geno – meaning race cide – meaning killing The word “genocide” was coined in the midst of the Holocaust.

What is Genocide? “Genocide is…both the gravest and greatest of the crimes against humanity.” –Alan Destexhe Definition: the deliberate and/or systematic destruction of a racial, national, political, ethnic, or cultural group. The United Nations In article two, genocide is defined as: any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children on the group to another group.

GENOCIDE Genocide the deliberate and/or systematic destruction of a racial, national, political, ethnic, or cultural group. Mass Murder: The intentional killing of a large number of people who are either unwilling or unable to defend themselves.

Ethnic Cleansing: The attempt to remove a particular group of people from a particular geographic area through the use of terror. Discrimination: Positive or negative behavior toward a particular group rules or laws directed against a group or its members; or practices that subordinate people of a particular group. positive behaviors, policies and practices that systematically advantage one group over another.

Ethnic Cleansing Discrimination Geno- cide Mass murder 1. Genocide is a type of ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and discrim. 2. Ethnic cleansing is a type of discrimination. 3. Mass murder can be used for genocide and ethnic cleansing, but can also occur for reasons other than genocide, ethnic cleansing, and discrimination. 4. There are many types of discrimination that have nothing to do with genocide, ethnic cleansing, or mass murder.

Genocide What examples of genocide in history can you think of? (See packet/chart!) How do genocides violate human rights? Who should be responsible for stopping genocide? Why?