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GENOCIDE
Trevor Pierce
Global Studies 10
English 10
April 10, 2003
Genocide has taken place many times all throughout the world. ... In 1944 Raphael Lemkin thought up the term genocide. ... The Genocide Convention’s definition of genocide is the means of any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group (Ushmm, http://www. ... Genocide usually takes place under 3 conditions: war, colonization and religious or tribal conflict. In some genocides, such as America’s Native American Genocide, the natives stood in the way of western expansion, but there was also racism behind this genocide and people were killed just like in many other genocides. ... This law is an act of genocide against the Indian people. ... People from England France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, and Germany were involved in this genocide. ... com/worldhistory/genocide) Nazi propaganda film The Eternal Jew even compared Jews to rats. This fits into the definition of genocide by causing mental harm to the Jews. ... com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust). ... Even though these 2 examples of genocide don’t have similar circumstances, most other genocides in history had similarities.
Approximate Word count = 1292
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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