March 4

EQ- What is genocide? How was genocide carried out in Rwanda?

Agenda: 1. Daily Sheet 2. Rwandan genocide

Jigsaw 3. 8 stages of genocide 4. Apply the 8 stages

to Rwanda

Table of Contents: 112. March 4 113. Rwandan Genocide Notes 114. 8 Stages of Genocide Chart 115. 8 Stages in Rwanda

HW- Finish Hotel Rwanda questions. Finish your 8 stages in Rwanda Chart. Will be collected

for a grade.

Key Vocabulary • Ethnic Cleansing - A more powerful ethnic group

forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region

• Genocide- the deliberate killing of a large group of people, usually an ethnic group or nation

1. Which of the following best illustrates the geographical concept of the nation-state? a. Canada b. Russia c. Belgium d. Iceland e. India

2. Most of Africa’s political boundaries were originally drawn by

a. seventeenth-century European explorers b. European colonial powers in the late-nineteenth century c. The Bandung Conference in 1955 d. Decolonization movements of the 1950’s and 60’s e. UN peacekeeping missions in the 1950s and 1960s

3. Which of the following represents a nation without a state?

a. Kurds b. Israelis c. Turks d. Germans e. Albanians

“[A]ny of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: • Killing members of the group; • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; • Creating living conditions of the group with the intent to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Poem by Pastor Martin Niemoller, 1945

Genocide in Rwanda Jigsaw

Step 1: Read your assigned packet! Step 2: As a group, discuss the questions on the last page. Step 3: Get prepared to “teach” your section to the next group. Step 4: Form new groups. Step 5: Present your information in the following order: 1. History 2. Valentina’s Story 3. International Response 4. Post-Genocide Rwanda

1. What do you think is the lesson we can learn from the Rwandan genocide?

2. Who is to blame for the genocide? Is it possible to place blame on any one group?

3. What can we do to stop genocide?