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Middle School Friends Day

Friends Select

Welcomes

Frankford Friends

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Genocide

noun

the deliberate and systematic extermination

of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

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20th Century Genocides includeHerero 1904 64,000 80% of populationArmenia 1915-18 1,500,000 60% Ukraine 1932-33 7,000,000 25%Nanking 1937-38 300,000 50%Shoah 1938-45 6,000,000 67%Roma 1938-45 500,000 50%Cambodia 1975-79 2,000,000 25%East Timor 1975-99 200,000 30%Bosnia 1992-95 200,000 6%Rwanda 1994 800,000 71%

Darfur Now ?

www.UnitedHumanRights.orgGenocide by Jane Springer

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Armenian Genocide

Turkey

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Jewish Holocaust (Shoah)

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Rwandan Genocide

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Rwandan survivor• Video shown from Immaculee Ilibagiza

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Darfur Genocide

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Darfur • the size of France located in western Sudan

• A little over ½ of 6,000,000 people who live there are black Africans while the rest are Arab

• has faced severe underdevelopment and neglect from government

• In early 2003, two loosely allied rebel groups began rebellion calling for redress of social and economic grievances and demanding greater political power

• authorities saw rebellion as threat to the entire country, fearing other neglected regions would rise up and demand larger degrees of autonomy.

• government decided to respond by carrying out deliberate policy of extermination against the African tribal peoples from which rebels are drawn.

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Darfur

• reports speak regularly of men being chained together and thrown into burning huts, women being raped in front of their loved ones, and children being kidnapped from their families.

• To date, over 400,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been internally displaced.

- militia known as the Janjaweed is main group employed by the government to implement policy of genocide

- Janjaweed armed by government and sent into African villages where they kill civilians of all ages, burn down houses, destroy crops and livestock, carry out mass executions, target vital infrastructure, and commit wide-scale rape.

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Darfur

www.unitedhumanrights.org

The United States has already officially labeled the crisis in Darfur, Sudan “genocide”

and the United Nations has called it “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today.”

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Eight Stages of Genocide

1. Classification – People are separated into “us and them.”

2. Symbolization – Names or symbols are given to the classifications (yellow stars for Jews and pink triangle for homosexuals in the Holocaust).

3. Dehumanization – The “other group” is equated with animals, vermin, insects, or diseases (cockroaches for Tutsis in Rwanda).

4. Organization – Special army units or militias are trained; the killings are planned.

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Eight Stages of Genocide cont.

5. Polarization – Groups are driven apart by extremists; intermarriage or social interaction between groups is forbidden.

6. Preparation – Targeted people are physically separated from others, forced to leave their homes or live in ghettos or camps.

7. Extermination – Mass killing begins.8. Denial – The perpetrators cover up the

evidence of the crimes, deny the crimes took place. They stay in power until removed by force.

Borrowed from Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch

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In the news 2009Philadelphia Inquirer

• 2/13/09 Sudanese leader faces warrant at International Criminal Court

• 2/16/09 One of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge leaders will go on trial tomorrow

• 2/17/09 France admits role in Holocaust

• 2/20/09 Bishop who denied Holocaust is expelled from Argentina

• 2/28/09 Tribunal convicts Rwandan chaplain

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Genocide

noun

the deliberate and systematic extermination

of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

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Do Not by Matthew Wolcott, 5th grade

Mill Run Elementary School, Virginia

Do not think without hopeThe world is filled with hopeDo not think of life without peaceThe world is filled with peaceDo not think of a place without freedomThink of a life filled with freedomDo not think of your life without encouragementI can be your encouragementDo not think without hope

from We Hear You: American Kids’ Reflections on Darfur