Essays on Genocide

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. It is understood by most to be the gravest crime against humanity that you could commit according to BBC News. It tears apart the lives of many innocent people and causes…

For decades, oppressive regimes have always resorted to ruthless tactics to subjugate their own people. Genocide being one major method of preserving the status quo at the expense of vulnerable men, women, and children. Often times, the victims of this horrendous act go nameless. Their…

Genocide is an abhorrent crime that has been around since the beginning of time – but was only recognized as a crime under the law in 1946. Genocide is the intentional act of harming a person physically and mentally. However, not only is this physical…

The psychological state of a person when they commit a crime to make the crime seem deliberate is called the mens rea. Men’s rea is a precise, intended plot to commit a certain crime or the general intent for one to go against the law….

Genocides happen when an expansive number of individuals are killed in an “ethnic, national, racial, or religious group”. These mass killings are usually in an attempt to wipe out either an entire or a certain extent of this specific groups existence. Genocides lead to grave…

Genocide is the term is defined as the immoral crimes that the particular authority (government) can do against the people. Genocide is the goal to kill the people on the basis of race, beliefs or the political status. The term genocide was firstly created in…

Starting on April 7th, 1994, and lasting approximately 3 months, the Rwandan Genocide was the deadliest instance of genocide since the extermination of Jewish populations by the Nazis in World War 2. It was sparked by ethnic unrest between the ethnic populations of the Hutus,…

There has been tons of different genocides in the world and there is a question “Has the United Nations and the United States response to the genocide been appropriate?” Yes i feel that the United States is doing the best they can. 3 genocides they…

Only 30 years after the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot took control of Cambodia in 1975 during their 4-year regime, an estimated 2 million people were killed, around 25% of the country’s population. Similarly, the 60% of Jews living in Europe were…

The Pawnees relentlessly began losing ground, first to the roaming hunting tribes, and next, the Americans. The decline of the Pawnee Indians despite the Sioux and the Americans and their diminishment from starvation, warfare, disease, and reliance shaped part of a bigger historic process occurring…