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What is

Genocide?

September 28, 2006

Agenda
Slide show of images,
Concept attainment Handout with the UN definition of Genocide

Activity
Homework: Current event on Genocide

What is Genocide?
Genocide isboth the gravest and greatest of the crimes against humanity. Alan Destexhe

Definition: the deliberate and/or systematic destruction of a racial, national, political, ethnic, or cultural group.
The United Nations In article two, genocide is defined as: any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: A) killing members of the group; B) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group; C) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, D) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; E) Forcibly transferring children on the group to another group.

EXAMPLES

NONEXAMPLES

The Treatment and Killing of Six Million Jewish People at Nazi Extermination Camps

Mass Killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks

Purges in the former USSR

Rwanda, Estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus Targeted, Raped, and Massacred

Lynching of Africans Americans in the United States

Systematic targeting of ethnic groups in Darfur

Giving blankets infected with Small Pox to Native Americans, which devastated their population.

The Columbine Shootings in Colorado

American casualties during the Vietnam War

Japanese Internment during WWII

A child playing with his toys in his backyard dies from a stray bullet from a gang member.

Bullying in the Hallway at School

Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba

You get grounded by your parents for dating someone of another race.

Terrorist Randomly Hijack Your Plane

You get robbed by knife walking to your car

Sterilization of homeless, orphans, the blind, the deaf and those who scored poorly on IQ tests, under the newly adopted sterilization laws in the 1920s in the US.

Approximately 13,000 prisoners died at Andersonville, which resulted in an outcry in the North over the appalling conditions and terrific death toll upon the liberation of the prison.

913 Americans committed mass suicide at a communal village known as Jonestown. The dead were apart of a group called The Peoples Temple.

Eighteen people died in a trailer carrying100 illegal men, women, and children across the border. This incident is considered a "horrific reminder of the callous disregard smugglers have for their human cargo."

Thousands of Native American children were sent far from their homes to live in boarding schools and learn the ways of white culture to become civilized.