What exactly is Genocide?

Question

and why is it happening in Darfur?
is it religous differences?
is it still turmoil from industrialization?

Answer 1

Genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people due to their reace, religion, ethinicity etc. The purpose is to completely destroy that group.

Examples of Genocide: Hitler and Nazi Germanies treatment of Jews, Gypsies, Blacks and Homosexuals. Another example is the ethnic serbs killing muslims in Bosnia.

Old exampples would be the Americans treatment of Native Americans during the 1800s.

The object is to kill every member of a specific group.

In Darfur, there are several reasons for it - One is religious, it is being committed by muslims against non-muslims. But there are other reasons, the cheif of which is tribal differences. They are killing, raping and maiming members of other tribes.

The cause of it is political, it started as a civil war and the government is suspected of using muslim militias to wipe out the ethnic tribes that are rebelling.

Answer 2

Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "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; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

The term "genocide" was coined by Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, in 1943, from the roots γένος genos (Greek for family, tribe or race) and -cide (Latin - occidere - to massacre) in the context of the Jewish Holocaust. Lemkin's original genocide definition was narrow, based mainly on the Holocaust and Armenian genocide, as it addressed only crimes against "national groups" rather than "groups" in general. At the same time, it was broad in that it included not only physical genocide but also acts aimed at destroying the culture and livelihood of the group.

The Darfur crisis is a conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. The two main military sides is the Sudanese Military and the Janjaweed militia, recruited mostly from tribes of the northern Rizeigat. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the land-tilling tribes from which the Darfuri rebels draw support.The conflict began in February 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, almost all of the combatants and victims in Darfur are Muslim.
The conflict taking place in Darfur has many interwoven causes. While rooted in structural inequality between the center of the country around the Nile and the 'peripheral' areas such as Darfur, tensions were exacerbated in the last two decades of the twentieth century by a combination of environmental calamity, political opportunism and regional politics. A point of particular confusion has been the characterization of the conflict as one between 'Arab' and 'African' populations, a dichotomy that one historian describes as "both true and false"
The starting point of the conflict in the Darfur region is typically said to be 26 February 2003, when a group calling itself the Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) publicly claimed credit for an attack on Golo, the headquarters of Jebel Marra District. Even prior to this attack, however, a conflict had erupted in Darfur, as rebels had already attacked police stations, army outposts and military convoys, and the government had engaged in a massive air and land assault on the rebel stronghold in the Marrah Mountains.

Answer 3

Basically it is the act of harming an entire group of people. Could be based on religion, race, nationality, or any other factor that might group people together. Here is how Wikipedia defines it...

Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as "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; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Answer 4

Genocide: When a country's leader orders a certain group of people violently elimated into extinction, mainly for personal disagreements---with the belief those extinct will make for a better life.

Answer 5

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