ETHNIC VIOLENCE THROUGH DISPLACEMENT OF PEOPLES RESULTING IN

REFUGEE POPULATIONS

Sr. Mr. Dr. Robert McCormick

Sir Grant Stouffer P.H.D.

GENOCIDE

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enocide is…• defined as the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic,

racial, religious, or national group.• "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana)"

DARFUR GENOCIDES

ome people in Darfur identify as african, the others identify as Arab• Government favors the Arabs

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overnment neglect left the people in Sudan left them poor and voiceless

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ebruary 2003: Non-Arab groups in Darfur launched an uprising against

the government

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he government response was to implement their campaign of genocide

JANJAWEED

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anjaweed are a government supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes

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he government was being constantly being beat by the non-Arab rebels, so they

began to fund the janjaweed

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he janjaweed quickly took the upper hand on the rebels

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hey use: Mass murder

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isplacement Rape

FACTS

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t is 70% more frequent to hear racial slurs when the Janjaweed

attack rather than the police force

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t is 85% more likely for displacement when the Janjaweed attack

rather than the police force

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hen food and water were attacked it was 129% more likely for

displacement than killings and house burnings

WORLD RESPONSE

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ther countries have talked about the issue but not

enough has been done yet to stop the issue

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ompromises by the UN have been denied in Sudan

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he violence has spread to the neighboring chad

PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE

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ionist Jews were exterminating the Palestinians in Israel

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he Zionists believe that Israel is their holy land and they

have a biblical right to it

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tarted in 1948 during the Palestinian Exodus

ZIONISM

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ionism is a form of nationalism of Jews and Jewish culture

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ionists believe that they have a right to “The Holy Land”

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ionism was formally established in 1897 by Theodor Herzl

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he Zionist movement established Israel as the homeland for jewish

people in 1948

1948 PALESTINIAN EXODUS

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25,000 Palestinians left, fled, or were expelled from there homes• Over 80%

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law passed by the Israeli government that prevented the return

of the Palestinians• Couldn’t reclaim land

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949- proposal by Israel to return 100,000 refugees• Part of a plan to keep their acquired land

WORLD RESPONSE

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efugees are still a key issue in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict today

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any of the original refugees’ next generation are still refugees

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alestinians are still being oppressed by the Israelis today

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he issue is trying to be worked out but not much progress has been

made

BACKGROUND ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

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eds Yeghern …Great Calamity

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rmenians are a group of Christians living in the Ottoman empire

specifically Turkey

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irst modern genocide April 24, 1915

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enocide was carried out by the rulers of the Ottoman Empire during

World War 1

THE DEATH OF THE ARMENIANS

Between one- half and two-thirds of the Armenians in

the Ottoman empire were killed About

1 to 1.5 million were killed

Armenians went through massacres and forced

deportations by Ottoman army

Armenians were raped killed by morphine overdose,

toxic gas, death marches , and typhoid inoculation

OTTOMANS PURPOSE

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here was no such motive present in the Arminian

genocide

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ome believe for political power

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ome believe it was the Ottomans way to rid the

Christians from their land

WORLD RESPONSE

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his was known as the first modern Genocide

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ecause of this event the word genocide was created in order to describe the

event

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he united convention on the prevention and Punishment of the Crime was

created only after the Jewish genocide

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he Committee of Union and Progress was blamed for the war and for the

destruction of the Armenian community

WORLD RESPONSE CONTINUED

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he events were recorded in articles regularly around the world

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any Americans spoke out about it including former president

Theodore Roosevelt, rabbi Stephen Wise, William Jennings

Bryan, and Alice Stone Blackwell.

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hildren were reminded to clean their plate as a reminder of the

starving Armenians

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE BACKGROUND

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nown as the Khmer Rouge period 1975-1979

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ommunist party in Cambodia with the leaders Pol Pot, Nuon

Chea, Leng Sary, Son Sen, Lhieu Samphan

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his group targeted former government officials, professionals

and intellectuals, people of religion, and minorities

BACKGROUND CONTINUED

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he Cham a Muslim minority group force to

adopted the Khmer ways

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ambodians of Chinese descent were the one who

were hit hard in this event.

KHMER ROUGE

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his group killed two million people through

execution, forced labor, and starvation

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hey are know for their torture which they would

torture a victim until they confess to any thing.

WORLDS RESPONSE

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N led a peace keeping mission to stop violence

and to establish a democratic government

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he Genocide only stopped when that Vietnamese

invade and controlled Cambodia for over a decade

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ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide

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ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Holocaust

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