Genocide...

Today's lessons are on Genocide.

For examples, see movies "Hotel Rwanda" or "Sometimes in April".

Genocide is the systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status or other particularity. The most widely known example is the Holocaust (the genocide of various groups, especially Jews, during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators). Lesser known in the West are Stalin's forced starvation of Ukrainian farmers, or Mao's murder of 20 to 60 million Chinese.

The annihilation of most native americans by several means (such as the killing of the buffalo, for example) can also be considered genocide. Although such killing sprees also took place in most of the american continent (in some countries there is almost no indian population like in Argentina, where the genocide was sponsored by the goverment).

However, the term genocide has also been defined more broadly or narrowly, on the one hand by historians and sociologists and on the other by legal experts or diplomats.

Most generally, genocide is the deliberate destruction of a social identity.


Sudanese Genocide

This is the blog of an aid worker in Sudan

The Rwandan Genocide of the 1990's

This is a list of massacres, modern and long past... Now would be a good time to reflect on the progress that humans have made over the last few centuries...