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

3. 20 th Century Genocides include Herero1904 64,00080% of population Armenia1915-181,500,00060% Ukraine1932-337,000,00025% Nanking1937-38 300,00050% Shoah1938-456,000,00067% Roma1938-45 500,00050% Cambodia1975-792,000,00025% East Timor1975-99 200,00030% Bosnia1992-95 200,000 6% Rwanda1994 800,00071% DarfurNow ? www.UnitedHumanRights.org Genocide by Jane Springer

4. Armenian Genocide Turkey

6. Jewish Holocaust (Shoah)

8. Rwandan Genocide

9. Rwandan survivor Video shown from Immaculee Ilibagiza

10. Darfur Genocide

11. Darfur the size of France located in western Sudan A little over ½ of 6,000,000 people who live there are black Africans while the rest are Arab has faced severe underdevelopment and neglect from government In early 2003, two loosely allied rebel groups began rebellion calling for redress of social and economic grievances and demanding greater political power authorities saw rebellion as threat to the entire country, fearing other neglected regions would rise up and demand larger degrees of autonomy. government decided to respond by carrying out deliberate policy of extermination against the African tribal peoples from which rebels are drawn.

12. Darfur reports speak regularly of men being chained together and thrown into burning huts, women being raped in front of their loved ones, and children being kidnapped from their families. To date, over 400,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been internally displaced. - militia known as the Janjaweed is main group employed by the government to implement policy of genocide genocide - Janjaweed armed by government and sent into African villages where they kill civilians of all ages, burn down houses, destroy crops and livestock, carry out mass executions, target vital infrastructure, and commit wide-scale rape.

13. Darfur www.unitedhumanrights.org The United States has already officially labeled the crisis in Darfur, Sudan “genocide” and the United Nations has called it “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.”

15. Eight Stages of Genocide 1.Classification – People are separated into “us and them.” 2.Symbolization – Names or symbols are given to the classifications (yellow stars for Jews and pink triangle for homosexuals in the Holocaust). 3.Dehumanization – The “other group” is equated with animals, vermin, insects, or diseases (cockroaches for Tutsis in Rwanda). 4.Organization – Special army units or militias are trained; the killings are planned.

16. Eight Stages of Genocide cont. 5.Polarization – Groups are driven apart by extremists; intermarriage or social interaction between groups is forbidden. 6.Preparation – Targeted people are physically separated from others, forced to leave their homes or live in ghettos or camps. 7.Extermination – Mass killing begins. 8.Denial – The perpetrators cover up the evidence of the crimes, deny the crimes took place. They stay in power until removed by force. Borrowed from Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch

17. In the news 2009 Philadelphia Inquirer 2/13/09 Sudanese leader faces warrant at International Criminal Court 2/16/09 One of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge leaders will go on trial tomorrow 2/17/09 France admits role in Holocaust 2/20/09 Bishop who denied Holocaust is expelled from Argentina 2/28/09 Tribunal convicts Rwandan chaplain

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

19. Do Not by Matthew Wolcott, 5 th grade Mill Run Elementary School, Virginia Do not think without hope The world is filled with hope Do not think of life without peace The world is filled with peace Do not think of a place without freedom Think of a life filled with freedom Do not think of your life without encouragement I can be your encouragement Do not think without hope from We Hear You: American Kids’ Reflections on Darfur