Government Responses to Genocide
AP World History 3B
22 November 2013 Government Responses to Genocide
There is no average or statistic of when and how a government responds to a genocide. Some times it could be days other times it could be years,governments can send in troops or even ignore that anything is happening all together. Debates about governments involvement are constantly being brought up about what could be done differently or how it would have affected the number of lives lost.there is no doubt that government involvement, aid and reactions to genocide affected the outcome. The definition of the word of genocide has been disputed for decades. the term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1994. the root words, genos is Greek for family, tribe, or race and -cide comes from Latin meaning killing. While many people define genocide as the mass killing of people through direct action others define it as the mass killing of people through either direct or indirect actions. the legally accepted definition of genocide adopted by united nations in 1948 is “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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” (Article 2 CPPCG). By this definition certain acts of genocide may go on with no interference. One of the most recent Genocides to day was at the end of the twentieth century. In the year 1994 in the East African country of rwanda an amount around eight-hundred thousand Rwandans were killed.The Genocide was soon started after the Hutu president plan was shoot down. The Hutu extremist soon started targeting the Tutsi civilians under the
22 November 2013 Government Responses to Genocide
There is no average or statistic of when and how a government responds to a genocide. Some times it could be days other times it could be years,governments can send in troops or even ignore that anything is happening all together. Debates about governments involvement are constantly being brought up about what could be done differently or how it would have affected the number of lives lost.there is no doubt that government involvement, aid and reactions to genocide affected the outcome. The definition of the word of genocide has been disputed for decades. the term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1994. the root words, genos is Greek for family, tribe, or race and -cide comes from Latin meaning killing. While many people define genocide as the mass killing of people through direct action others define it as the mass killing of people through either direct or indirect actions. the legally accepted definition of genocide adopted by united nations in 1948 is “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; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” (Article 2 CPPCG). By this definition certain acts of genocide may go on with no interference. One of the most recent Genocides to day was at the end of the twentieth century. In the year 1994 in the East African country of rwanda an amount around eight-hundred thousand Rwandans were killed.The Genocide was soon started after the Hutu president plan was shoot down. The Hutu extremist soon started targeting the Tutsi civilians under the