1. Genocide

2. What is Genocide The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944
Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphel Lemkin came up with the word
combining geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe,
with -cide, from the Latin word for killing.

3. What is Genocide Cont
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with 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 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

4. Key Terms Oppression Discrimination
Harsh or cruel treatment of people over a prolonged period of time
Physical and mental mistreatment
Discrimination
Unfair treatment of a group based on prejudice or preconceived notions about that group, or social class.
People are treated different than the rest of society because of race, religion, gender, ethnic group or social class

5. Key Terms Genocide Ethnic Cleansing
Deliberate and systematic effort to exterminate all members of an ethnic, religious, or national group
Ethnic Cleansing
Forcibly remove an ethnic group from an area and make it available for settlement by another group

6. Where has genocide occurred
Armenia
Stalin’s forced famine
Holocaust
Cambodia
Bosnia-Herzegovinia
Rwanda 1994

7. Armenia
1.5 million Armenians were murdered, deported, or forced into the desert where they starved to death

8. Stalin’s forced famine 1932-1933
Ukraine citizens wanted independence from Stalin’s rule
He caused a famine
Estimated 7 million died

9. Holocaust
6 million people were killed by the Nazi’s during WWII

10. Cambodia 1975-1979 2,000,000 deaths Led by Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge
Wanted to create an agrarian communist society

11. Bosnia-Herzegovinia 1992-1995
200,000 deaths
Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia

12. Rwanda 1994
Hutu’s of Rwanda used propaganda through the radio to kill the Tutsi’ s in Rwanda
1 million deaths