Is The Holocaust Unique

Is the Holocaust unique? Answer by focusing on events in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia?

The uniqueness of the Holocaust has always been controversial. Was it a singular event where latter atrocities could not match in ideology, degree, or characteristics or was it a predecessor for where similar events could be used as a depiction of the Holocaust simply in another place and time? Firstly, the Holocaust, commonly referred to as the Nazi slaughter of Jews, Gypsies and other ‘racial undesirables during World War II , is based on a general ideology of racialism that myths of justification in the national mass murders of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia adopt in their search for mass support. The victims and the types of atrocities in each case
However, the appearance of political endorsement in order to gain people’s support for their racial theories could be traced in all the cases of Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia. In all these countries, the government established a national and a racial doctrine that announced the superiority of one group while denouncing the inferiority of another. In Cambodia, it was the government’s reinstitution of an original Khmer peasant society by wiping out the other ethnic, educated, and religious groups in the country. Hutu supremacy by the acts of extermination and persecution within the pretext of ancient myths of Tutsi tyranny was the story of Rwanda while Bosnia replaced the Aryan superiority with the dominance of Greater Serbia and the target of Jews and Gypsies with Muslims and Croats. As a result, the Holocaust could not be identified as exclusively unique in the sphere of ideology due to so many parallels between racial endorsements and the intent of governments to implement them as a form of
But is it fair to relate it in this term just because the Khmers Rouges left the populace in such a state of trauma that is reflected in the inability of the Cambodians to come to terms with the events linguistically? Cambodia was termed by Uwe Makino as a genocide that ‘represents the final form of social engineering’. Social engineering is the radical and total transformation of a society where it attempts to experiment in an atmosphere of persecution to create a utopian society, and it inevitably leads to crimes against humanity, in extreme cases, to genocide. In agreement with UN definition of the persecution of religious and racial groups, eyewitnesses testified to the Khmer Rouge massacres of monks and the forcible disrobing and persecution of survivors , including Vietnamese, Chinese and the Muslim Chams also massacred until almost 20% of the population were eradicated by 1979. However, the Nazi did not transform German society to the extent of the Red Khmer Cambodia. In terms of the atrocities, Protestant and Catholic churches both survived, on the other hand, the National Library in Cambodia was lotted and books were burned indiscriminately . The economic and intellectual elite was wiped out or driven out of the country. So while Nazi Holocaust were exposed to the terror of concentration camps and death by gas chambers, permanent,