Silent Genocide
...ity to negotiate or oppose the unfair treatment. The only possible way for Indians to react to such politics was to fight for their rights. However, the peaceful negotiations usually turned out to be useless. As a consequence, Indians fought with ‘white’ settlers, without any chance to win the war and establish a peaceful and independent Indian territory. Although the struggles with ‘whites’ cost many lives they didn’t brought any reasonable solutions to the conflict. The vast majority of white forces nearly crushed the whole Indian nation. What actually happened to the Indian society is often defined as genocide. It can be generally defined as the consistent destruction of a racial, religious, or ethnic group by a government or other official body. According to The United Nations International Law Commission Report of 1949 the acts that define the genocide are killings of a members of a group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. In other words we encounter these aspects of genocide as forcible movement, indoctrination, assimilation, or killing of nearly all members of a specific group. The main goal of genocide is to destroy a certain group, for instance a nation, and its culture so that they no longer exist as a one group. Moreover, the Indians genocide apart from being stiff and cruel, was a...