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Understanding Genocide: Key Cases and Impact

This document defines genocide and provides examples throughout history. It summarizes genocide in three main events: the Holocaust killed an estimated 6 million Jews during WWII, the Rwandan genocide in 1994 resulted in 800,000 to 1 million Hutus and Tutsis killed, and the Argentine Dirty War from 1976-1983 saw the military government target leftists and an estimated 30,000 people killed or disappeared. The document also outlines the UN definition of genocide and five acts that constitute genocide: killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions to destroy the group physically or in part, imposing measures to prevent births, and forcibly transferring children to another group. These acts were all carried out during the Argentine D

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Understanding Genocide: Key Cases and Impact

This document defines genocide and provides examples throughout history. It summarizes genocide in three main events: the Holocaust killed an estimated 6 million Jews during WWII, the Rwandan genocide in 1994 resulted in 800,000 to 1 million Hutus and Tutsis killed, and the Argentine Dirty War from 1976-1983 saw the military government target leftists and an estimated 30,000 people killed or disappeared. The document also outlines the UN definition of genocide and five acts that constitute genocide: killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions to destroy the group physically or in part, imposing measures to prevent births, and forcibly transferring children to another group. These acts were all carried out during the Argentine D

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Genocide

THE DELIBERATE KILLING OF A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE,


ESPECIALLY THOSE OF A PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP OR NATION.

Holocaust

During WWII
01/ 30/193305/08/1945
Jews were targeted by the
Nazi party and killed an
estimadet 6 million people.

Rwanda
1994
Hutu vs. Tutsi
800,000 - 1,000,000

Convention on the Prevention and


Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article 2
In the present Convention, 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.

Argentina

Government Overthrown

Military coup

Targeted anyone with leftist views

Students, teachers, workers.

Killing Members of a Group

"desaparecidos" or someone that is missing

Soldiers could and did;

Pick up anyone from the streets

Go house by house looking for anything that would reveal leftist affiliations

Capture with the intent of dispear

Causing Serious Bodily or Mental


Harm to Members of the Group;

People were scared, they were terrorized

They tried to control what you read, listened and watched; by


forbidding what they felt didn't go along their ideas.

Musicians and various artists fled the country fearing for their lives.

Imposing measures intended to prevent births


within the group; Forcibly transferring children of
the group to another group.

Children with parents with leftist views were taken from them and given to other families.

Mothers held captive by the military got their babies taken from them without being able
to hold them.

People did not want to conceive any children due to the fact that they may also be
snatched from them at birth.

Youtube video (5:05)

Aftermath

The population in general was left with a feeling of distrust


against armed forces.

Nothing was done towards the ones responsible for this atrocity
until the year 2005 when they were taken to trial for the
committed crimes.

The mothers and grandmothers of the 30,000 victims have


United to become one of the largest groups in the world in the
fight of human rights, till this day they search for the children
taken from their mothers.

"Genocide has occurred so often and so uncontested in the last


fifty years that an epithet more apt in describing recent events
than the oft-chanted "Never Again" is in fact "Again and
Again." The gap between the promise and the practice of the last
fifty years is dispiriting indeed."
- Samantha
Powers

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