Ethnic violence through displacement of peoples resulting in refugee populations

1. Ethnic violence through displacement of peoples resulting in refugee populations Matt Harrington Juliette Jamieson (Genocide)

2. Genocide in Rwanda • 1944 -- Hutu (85%) Tutsi (14%) Twa (1%) • Early 1990's • Hutu extremists blamed Tutsi for country's increasing political, social, and economic pressures • Accused of supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) • End of 1992 - division between Hutu and Tutsi increased • April 6, 1994 - plane with President Habyarimana shot down • Political leaders killed • Hutu planned to destroy entire pop. of Tutsi • 800,000 people killed (3/4 of the Tutsi pop.) • 300,000 children • 95,000 children orphaned • Thousands of Hutu killed for opposing the killing campaign

3. Genocide in Rwanda Contd. • Civil war and genocide ended in 1994 when the RPF defeated the Hutu perpetrator regime and President Paul Kagame took over • France, Belgium, US, and UN were aware of the genocide • Leading foreign actors refused to acknowledge it • Refused to declare the genocidal govt. guilty of exterminating its citizens

4. Cambodian Genocide • Khmer Rouge--communist guerrilla organisation (leader was Pol Pot) • Pop. worked as unpaid laborers-- all who opposed eliminated • Banned religion • Killed Buddhist monks, professional people in any field • killed for simply for knowing a foreign language, wearing glasses, laughing, or crying • "To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss." • Targeted minority groups (Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Cham Muslim, Christian)

5. Genocide in Palestine • 535+ villages destroyed • 800,000 people were driven from their homes by force or fear of force • "the ethnic cleansing of Palestine" • 1948 -- thousands of Palestinians killed by terrorist Jewish groups like the Stern, Haganah and Irgun • Deir Yassin massacre • April 9, 1948 • 100+ villagers annihilated • Prisoners were paraded through the streets in occupied Jerusalem, then killed • Khan Younis, 1956 • 500 villagers massacred in the middle of the Gaza Strip • killed Egyptians

6. Armenians • 1915-1923 • Persecution of the Armenian Population of the Ottoman Empire • Deported from their Homes • Ottoman Soldiers • Long, brutal walks • Death toll: 600,000-1,800,000

7. Armenians Framed • Armenians traditionally wanted freedom • Supported attempts to usurp the Ottoman ruling body • World War 1 • Ottomans lost and broken apart • April 24 1915 • 250 Men of power Constantinople of Armenian descent deported • Blamed -->"The Armenians were in league with the enemy" • Armenians become social scapegoats • National hate

8. Armenian Extermination • Marches to Concentration camps • Mass Burning • Drowning • Sent on a boat into the black sea • Domestic unsafety • Doctors mis-diagnosing and mis-treating diseases on purpose • Social prejudice

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10. The Methods Flow Chart: 1. Political Disaster/Disunity 2. Radical Group excludes minority group(s) 3. Propaganda Ensues 4. Scapegoat eradicated 5. Equally radical group interferes 6. Genocide is unveiled to public 7. Everything slowly stops

11. Works Cited • "Cambodia 1975." GENOCIDE - CAMBODIA. Peace Pledge Union. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_cambodia.html>. • Dadrian, Vahakn N (1995), The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus, Oxford: Berghahn Books, ISBN 1-57181-666-6 • "Genocide in Rwanda" United Human Rights Council. VIBSCO. Web. 11 May 2012. <http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda/htm>. • Jarour, Maysaa. "Is/was There a Genocide in Palestine?" The Palestine Telegraph. PT News, 8 Feb. 2010. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.paltelegraph.com/columnists/sameh-a-habeeb/4088-iswas-there-a-genocide-in-palestine.html>.