Modern Atrocities

Genocide or Holocaust?

Genocide

• Both are mass killings and threats against human lives
• Usually started due to ethical, racial or religious reasons
• Genocide is a more modern term
• "Holocaust" refers specifically to Adolf Hitler's actions towards Jews
• All are worthy of punishment

Darfur: started in 1989

Claimed lives of 400,000 people

More than 1 hundred people died each day

~Syria: still in poverty

250,000 dead, 1,000,000 injured and 500,000 starving

~Bosnia: deaths of 100,000 people by 1995

International Laws

The Preamble states:

Article I: Anyone who commits genocide is punishable under international law

Article II: Genocide can be anyone attempting to murder an ethnical or religious group

Article III: Any type of genocide, whether it's an an attempt or a conspiracy is punishable.

Article IV: Anyone who takes part in the genocide whether they had a minor or major role in the event can be punished for helping.

Genocide in Rwanda

-100 days of slaughter (April 6, 19994 - Mid July 1994

-Hutu turned on the Tutsi

-an estimated 800,000 Tutsis died

-Tutsi 10% Hutu 90%

-Mainly killed with hand weapons

-Genocide ended when RPF took control (Rwandan Patriotic Front)

Works Cited

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• ⦁ "Genocide, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of - - Prevent Genocide International." Genocide, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of - - Prevent Genocide International. Web. 20 Jan. 2015. <http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm>.
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• ⦁ ICC - What Are Crimes against Humanity? Web. 20 Jan. 2015. <http://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/about the court/frequently asked questions/Pages/12.aspx>.
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What are Crimes Against Humanity?

following acts committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack:

• Murder
• enslavement/imprisonment
• torture
• rape
• sexual slavery

Modern Atrocities

By

• Esmeralda Orozco, Maria Ochoa, Raquel Ramirez, Silvia Martinez