how much do you know about genocide?

Question

where in the world it is happening now and where inthe world it has allready happend.

Answer 1

It's the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide. It's like killing a part or whole of a country, a religious group, or people of a certain ethnicity on purpose. The Holocaust would be considered genocide (I studied a lot about that in school...) It happened in Rwanda in April 1994. Belgium allowed prosecution of genocide until 2003 which is stupid if I understand it correctly. Genocide has been a crime in Finland since 1995. Dutch law restrictions prosecution of genocide in its area - The Netherlands. Genocide was made a criminal act in Sweeden in 1964.

According to President of Genocide Watch, Gregory Stanton, genocide develops in eight stages that are "predictable but not inexorable". The FBI has found somewhat similar stages for hate groups.

I never Genocide was this wide-spread. I mean I knew about it and its implications, but I didn't know about all the crimes committed with this. They'll get their judgement from God on Judgement Day.

The rest of the following came directly off of the Wikipedia website for Genocide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide

It is worth noting that while some governments follow certain of the "recommendations" below, in other jurisdictions they are actually illegal. For instance, in the United States, the First Amendment forbids the banning of so-called "hate speech".

Stage Characteristics Preventive measures
1.
Classification People are divided into "us and them". "The main preventive measure at this early stage is to develop universalistic institutions that transcend... divisions."
2.
Symbolization "When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah groups..." "To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be legally forbidden… as can hate speech".
3.
Dehumanization "Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder." "Hate propaganda should be banned, hate crimes and atrocities should be promptly punished."
4.
Organization "Genocide is always organized... Special army units or militias are often trained and armed..." "To combat this stage, membership in these militias should be outlawed."
5.
Polarization "Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda..." "Prevention may mean security protection for moderate leaders or assistance to human rights groups..."
6.
Identification "Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity..." "At this stage, a Genocide Alert must be called..."
7.
Extermination "It is "extermination" to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human." "At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be established with heavily armed international protection."
8.
Denial "The perpetrators... deny that they committed any crimes..." "The response to denial is punishment by an international tribunal or national courts."

Answer 2

So many times genocides have been realized! It is amazing how brutal people have been and still are, when they get the power!
My grandparents were "lucky" to survive the Asia Minor genocide executed by the Turks!
Similar many have done in Greece! Like the Romans were exterminating by law, even, those who were Greeks and claim it!
Also, I was raised in a neighborhood in Greece, where most people were the "lucky" survivors and their descendants, from Armenia, Pontus and Asia Minor, all executed by the Turks, at the beginning of the 20th century!

Answer 3

Genocide is generally defined as the intentional extermination of a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group. Compared with war crimes and crimes against humanity, genocide is generally regarded as the most offensive crime. At worst, genocide pits neighbor against neighbor, or even husband against wife. Unlike war, where the attack is general and the object is often the control of a geographical or political region, genocide attacks an individual's identity, and the object is control -- or complete elimination -- of a group of people.

The history of genocide in the 20th century includes:

the 1915 genocide of Armenians by Turks;
the attempted extermination of European Jews by Nazis during World War II;
the widespread genocide in Cambodia during the 1970s;
the "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo by Serbs during the 1990s;
the killing of Tutsis by Rwandan Hutus in 1994.
Since 1948, the United Nations has defined genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such."
Actions included in this definition are:
Killing members of a group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group;
Deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within a group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Notice that in the U.N. definition, murder is not the only way to destroy a group. For example, the recent Australian practice of forcibly removing biracial Aborigine children from their parents could be classified as genocide, since the goal of this practice was to assimilate the children into mainstream Australian culture, and thus slowly erode the Aborigine culture and population.

Answer 4

Genocide occured in Cambodia under the Khemer Rouge, while Pol Pot was the dictator. Currently, it is going on in Somalia, and it happened recently in Rwanda. I'm not sure if it is still going on the Rwanda and Somalia. Look it up. Genocide isn't good. Genocide is usually accomplished using military force. However, in Somalia, propaganda was used to tell people to kill their neighbors. That accomplished most of the killing. Good luck!

Answer 5

Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) Article 2 as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, 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; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Answer 6

it has happened all over the world, but right now you can look at Dafur in the Sudan. Before that in the Baltics and lest we forget, the Iranians and their supporters want Israel destroyed.

Answer 7

All those who wrote that Serbs committed genocide are victims of ignorance of political and informational globalization.

Answer 8

20th century Genocide

happening: Sudan, Somalia, wasn't Serbia?

already happened: Cambodia, Germany, Rwanda, United States "native americans"- not 20th century but significant....Man it is really hard to think of all of them.

There have been ehtnic wars all over the place, ethnic cleansing, I think I got at least half

Answer 9

uh yah sumpthing in afrika. Maybe the UN could make itself useful but I doubt it.

Answer 10

i know the dictionary def. hitler has done genocide, saddam has done it, not sure if it is going on now