Essays on Genocides

Throughout the world history, there were many examples of genocides. Most of them took place in the XX century and they were the most violent ever in history. According to the estimates, only during Holocaust (Germany) and Holodomor (USSR) over 10 million people dies due to the unlawful and inhuman actions of the governments. For sure, the reasons for those genocides were different as “the leaders goals vary, depending on the time, place, and circumstances” (PBS). For instance, Adolf Hitler wanted to create a vast political empire, Joseph Stalin wanted to secure himself from any kind of rebellion, Slobodan ...

Genocide, which can be defined as the action intended to eliminate certain national, ethnic, religious, or racial group, is regarded to be one of the cruelest and most inhumane acts performed by people. Among most known instances of the genocide are the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the Armenian genocide, and the Cambodian genocide. Apparently, events that take place during genocides have incredibly painful effects on human beings and bring about variety types of suffering. It is particularly significant for the people to remember about horrible acts of genocide. The social institution which is capable to help ...

Social institutions help retain memory, for instance, about a genocide. Events that happen during genocides have a painful effect in humans, bringing about a lot of suffering. Destruction of property, losing the loved ones, rape and other painful things happen during the genocide. Such events and memories are recorded by a number of social institutions, and can often be retrieved in future for the purpose of making reference. The family institution, government, education, media and religion are some of the social institutions that retain memory about significant events that happen. The capacity of these institutions to retain such memory ...

Introduction

The paper aims to tackle the constituents of Genocide. It also aims to tackle the differences and similarities of the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide. Although at the core, both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust are originated in racist ideologies, deep hatred and discrimination; at the surface they present the world in different views. The ways society accepted and aided both circumstances as well as the socio-cultural factors that provoked these atrocities were differentiable. In order to attain the paper’s objective, this paper will first give the definition of genocide, then facts about Rwanda Genocide and holocaust. ...