Human Rights Violations During British Imperialism

Human Rights Violations United Nations had published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that all are free and equal. However, throughout history, there have been many examples where groups of people have been denied their human rights because of ethnic background, gender, religious preference, or political affiliation. Thus, people attempted to end many of these human rights violations, though it may not work. The people who lived in India during British imperialism and Jews during the Holocaust are the examples of human rights violations. The treatment of Indian during British imperialism was one of the examples of human violation. British imperialism means that Britain, which was strong, took over the weak, such as
However, most of the sepoys were Muslims who don’t eat pork and Hindus who considers cow sacred. Therefore, British didn’t show respect to their culture, but ignored them. For this reason, sepoys refused to accept the cartridges. Then British jailed the disobeyed soldiers, but this action was improperly and led to the sepoys rebelled. Sepoy rebellion was one of the fist attempts of the Indians to rid India of foreign dominance. It led to the rise of nationalism in India and the desire for independence. Furthermore, in 1919, Indians wanted to protest Britain peacefully in Amritsar, but unfortunately, British commander felt nervous about the protest of Indians, then he decided to fire the crowded. This event was known as Amritsar Massacre. It caused many Indian felt angry to the British government and changed their loyalty to British into nationalism. Amritsar Massacre gave Gandhi a chance to become a leader of the independence, and he played an important role on against British imperialism. He urged the Indian National Congress to endorse a policy called civil disobedience, which was to refuse an unjust law by nonviolence actions. For
Holocaust was the genocide of Jews from 1933 to 1945 in Europe, and it was decided by the leader of Germany, Hitler. After World War Ⅰ, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which compelled Germany to give up territory and to pay reparations to countries whose lands it had damaged. In addition, Germany suffered the great depression, which was the downfall of economy. Thus, Germany not only had to pay the reparations, but also had to face the depression of economy. Base on this situation, Germans wanted to have a strong government to help them to overcome these problems; thus, they chose to live under totalitarianism, and its leader was Hitler. Hitler was anti-Semitism, which means he was against or discrimination to Jews. He also mentioned his hatred of Jews in Mein Kampf, which he wrote while he was in jail. He asserted that the Germans were “Aryans” and Jews were “non-Aryans” and also were inferior. He urged people to support his racist ideas by saying that Jews were conspiracy to control the world and opposed to the Aryan. As a result, the holocaust began to start. First of all, Nazis passed Nuremberg laws to deprive Jews’ rights of citizenship, public education, public office, etc. Nuremberg laws tried to remove Jews from public life. Additionally, Germans’ companies fired Jewish workers, and German disenfranchised Jewish stockholders. Jewish were forced to live in a life that they didn’t want.