Genocide In Syria

“The community’s blunt outrage over the children’s arrests and mistreatment, the government’s humiliating and violent reactions to their worries and the people’s refusal to be cowed by security forces embolden and helped spread the Syrian opposition.” This notion demonstrates that the killing of the four protestors was only the first of many deaths to occur continuing into an on-going war that has: “…triggered nationwide protests demanding President Assad’s resignation.” Because of this, the Syrian government decided that in order to handle the issue they must crush this nationwide dissent. This in return only allowed the protestors to push harder for a change within the country of Syria, in hopes of it becoming the wonderful country that it was in the years prior to the war. “Syria’s conflict has devolved from peaceful protests against the government in 2011 to a violent insurgency that has drawn in numerous other countries.” “With neither side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, the international community long ago concluded that only a political solution could end the conflict in Syria.”

In both situations, the government is inflicting death upon the civilians in gruesome ways. In Syria, the government are dropping chemical and barrel bombs on civilians. In Germany, the government of Adolf Hitler was killing Jews in gas chambers. In addition, both countries’ leaders are hated world wide (Al-Assad and Hitler). Another similarity between both historical events is that the Jews and the Syrians Refugees both were/are not accepting with open arms into other countries. The Jews and Syrian Refugees were/are believed to bring in unwanted trouble (at the time Jews were thought to be “harbingers of dangerous

Not everybody believes in genocides, other may have a different opinion or thoughts. Sometimes people don’t realize its genocide because they believe in what they are doing and they think there is no harm done because it’s not affecting them. To be taken away from your family, to go live somewhere else or to be killed can have a huge impact on your life. Genocides play a huge role in the world; it has and will affect many people. In Darfur there is a genocide going on, it has been going on for a few decades now. Genocide is the mass killing of a race. The people of Darfur and the Government of Sudan didn’t really get along. The Government wanted to do oil exploration where the citizens lived. There was and still is a lot of tension between

“As defined in article 2 of the Convention of the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is any act with intent to liquidate a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group” (“Office of the UN...”1) . Genocide has been an issue around the world for several centuries, and sadly it continues to this day. There is one specific genocide that many historians study, the forced evacuation of the Chechens. Although this may be classified as a relocation, it was declared an act of genocide by the European Parliament in 2004 (Brauer and “Office of the UN…”).

“Government officials have justified their lethargic response to the Syrian refugee crisis by citing security concerns. This excuse isn’t new. America’s security fears during World War II led to the rejection of Jews fleeing the Holocaust—and to the remorse that prompted the creation of the refugee process. Rather than repeat the mistake we promised never to forget, we must learn to address our fears without forgetting our humanity—and this begins by welcoming refugees who want nothing but to build a life of opportunity and peace.” They both are between the government and the people. The Syrian government is fighting with the rebels who don’t like the way the president is leading. In the holocaust it was Hitler vs. the Jews, and everyone protecting the Jews. “‘Nothing has been done to save these people, and we hope for stronger action by the international community,’ Mr. Pinheiro said, highlighting the obligation for countries under the 1948 genocide convention to take action to prevent it.” This quote means that, like in the Holocaust, nothing can be done to protect the people getting hurt. They both involve other countries. In the Syrian genocide other countries are helping fight the war. There are many allies in this war. In the holocaust, other countries were fighting in World War ll. These points relate to each other because the two wars happened almost the same ways. They are both moving in the same direction.

My thoughts on genocide is that why do it don't you feel guilty massacring all these innocent people that did nothing to you. How do they practice genocide do they just kill people for practice or do they practice with children to teach them later on. I just think it's a horrible thing to do. It shows that in Syria Christians used to live a peaceful until the Civil War at least then it came down hill they got thrown in refugee camps and their territory was stolen from them. The Christians are being slaughtered but most that are slaughtered aren't even Christian. In the evidence I found it shows that ISIS is responsible for all the genocides that have been happening it shows they have done genocides in Syria and Iraq.

Genocide occurs in several nations and causes millions of lives to be lost. The slaughter of innocent men, women, and children continue daily, and will happen until the world and its people grow tired of the unnecessary loss of life and work to aid those in need. Darfurians are a prime example of what can happen when ones lives are not valued because of the difference in beliefs.

The Syrian people began taking to the streets in hopes of a peaceful protest against the Assad regime. The Syrian government did not like this one bit and responded with excessive force, resulting in the shooting, killing, and torturing of many innocent peaceful protesters. This soon escalated into an all out civil war where the country was divided into three major groups that are occupied by the regime members, islamic extremists, and rebel fighters. The conflict in this area has become so brutal and entangled with foreign help from many countries, that citizens of the affected war zones needed to evacuate their villages to be

Genocides have been going on for many years whether people may want to accept it or not even recognize an event as a genocide, Genocide is a deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The term Genocide was created by polish attorney and writer Raphael Lemkin, by combining the Greek word “genos” which means race and the Latin word “cide” which means killing. Which as from now one can see that it’s that a massive killing of a specific race(s). The United Nations however define Genocide as a killing member of groups, causing serious bodily harm or mental harm to a member of said group. Killing all those innocent people for being from a certain religion or a certain place is just

Genocide is the organized and widespread termination, or attempted execution of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group (www.freedictionary.com). Over 1 million Iraqi’s have been killed in genocide. Genocide in Iraq started in the year 1991, even though many people thought it started in 2003. It is important to think about this problem, because people need to know about the history, and about the struggles people have to endure to keep our country together. It is also important because people need to know what is happening in the world, as of today. The famous Sadaam Hussein is known all around the world for his vindictive acts, leading to genocide. Threats of killing a large number of people have impacted the U.S. and Iraq

In Barbara Harffs “No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust?” she explains the factors that serve as warnings for genocide/politicide and gives a detailed definition of what genocide is. She gives two definitions. The first is from The U.N. that defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or part, a national ethnical, racial, or religious group” (58). Harff also explains the six factors in the genocide structural model. Also explains why these factors are warnings signs of future genocide. I will describe them in the following paragraphs and explain how they relate to the genocide in Syria.

The definition of genocide according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, “The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation”. The genocide with the most amount of deaths was the Holocaust, killing an estimated amount of six million people from 1933 to 1945. Another example is the genocide happening in Iraq since 2014, the last update, of which was on August 3, 2017. About 3,100 Yazidis have been killed in horrifying ways, along with 6,800 people kidnapped. Genocides have killed more people than most can even fathom. It’s still killing thousands of people, even to this day. This violence needs to stop!

Genocide is the ultimate expression of hatred and contempt. There is only one place for it in the human rights discussion, which is at the very top. There is no crime more heinous than the extermination or attempt to exterminate a people because of their race, nationality, or religion. Currently, the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is killing Yazidis (Yezidi), a Kurdish speaking religious minority. By the thousands in Syria and Iraq. The men are slaughtered and the women and children are kept as sexual slaves. The local government is a mess in both nations and some would say under siege themselves. The International Community has done little more than issue a UN report called “They Came to Destroy: ISIS Crimes against the Yazidis.” These people

Genocide, a dire event, has been recurring time and time again throughout history. In the past, there was the Holocaust, where Hitler exterminated over six million Jews based on his anti-semitic views. Elie Wiesel, a Jewish author, has become a very influential man in educating the world of the true events of the Holocaust due to his involvement in the disaster. Presently, a genocide is occurring in the Darfur region of southern Sudan, in which according to Cheryl Goldmark, “a systematic slaughter of non-Arab residents at the the hands of Arab militiamen called Janjaweed” has been taking place since 2003. (1) Not only is genocide a tragic historical event, it also continuously occurs today.

Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the