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Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to 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 of the group to another group
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Nazi Germany – Adolph Hitler Exterminated 6 million Jews 5 – 11 million – Poles, Romanians, Soviet prisoners, Soviet citizens, people with disabilities, gay men, political prisoners
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1930’s – laws banning Jews from schools and jobs Destruction of Jewish synagogues, business, and homes Established concentration camps Relocated Jews to ghettos Medical experiments
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Prisoners rounded up Transported to camps Selected To the right, worked to death To the left, the gas chambers
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CHELMO
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TREBLINKA
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SOBIBOR
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BERGAN BELSEN
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April 6 – mid July 1994 Conflict between Tutsis and Hutu’s Hutu’s murdered at least ½ million Tutsis and moderate Hutu’s Little international effort to stop the violence
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Killing stopped when Tutsi rebel, Paul Kagame seized power Hutu’s fled to nearby Democratic Republic of Congo Led to Congo wars Violence between Tutsis and Hutu’s also in Burundi
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Formerly part of Yugoslavia 2 states, BH and Republic of Srpska Three ethnic groups Bosniaks Serbs Croats
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Serbs kill 7,500 men and boys over 13 Mainly Muslim Called ethnic cleansing
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Who – The people of Darfur What - Genocide When – Now Where – A western region of Sudan Why – Ethnic or racial identity How - Genocide
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Since 2004, 2.5 million driven from their homes 300,000 dead 1,600 villages destroyed by Sudanese Gov’t. 200,000 refugees in Chad
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