by: maddie griffith and rachel brauns rwanda genocide armenian genocide

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By: Maddie Griffith And Rachel Brauns ETHNIC VIOLENCE THROUGH DISPLACEMENT OF PEOPLES RESULTING IN REFUGEE POPULATIONS Rwanda Genocide Armenian Genocide

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By: Maddie Griffith

And

Rachel Brauns

ETHNIC VIOLENCE THROUGH DISPLACEMENT OF PEOPLES RESULTING IN

REFUGEE POPULATIONS

Rwanda Genocide

Armenian Genocide

• Forced to flee their homes because of their ethnicity

• Lived in refugee camps• Treated poorly• Lived in fear• Persecuted for little, no reason• Multiple times in the 1900’s• Killings would go on for years• Genocide- the deliberate

killing of a group of people because of their race, culture, political beliefs, or religion.

WHAT IS IT?

• Occurred all over Europe, Asia and Africa• Examples: Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Palestinians,

and Darfurians

Armenian Genocide

• Hutu’s overthrew the Tutsi monarchy and established a republic

• Government planned how they would execute the plan

• Forced to use an id card to identify hutu/tutsi

• Hutu militia groups set out to kill all Tutsi’s

• About 1.1 million Tutsi’s killed

• Refugees would run to nearby countries

RWANDA GENOCIDE

• http://www.history.com/topics/rwandan-genocide/videos#rwanda-the-world-reacts

• United Nations sent 5,500 soldiers to Rwanda

• United States did not send troops

• French forces were deployed throughout Rwanda to stop violence and fighting

HOW THE WORLD REACTS

United States destroyed Cambodia while fighting the Viet Chong

Pot Pol-

- Went to school in France but became infatuated with

Marxism and Maoism

-Eventually lead the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) or Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK )

-Renamed Democratic Republic of Kampuchea

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE1975-1979

Used Mao’s “Great Leap Fore ward” Ideals

1st Evacuation of Cities- Thousands of people died along the way and forced to work under horrible conditions

2nd Businesses shut down, No medicine, No foreigners, No family ties, Shut down to outside world

3rd Employed young soldiers eager to kill and placed his family in high positions in government

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE1975-1979

Killed anyone that-

1) Was a minority- Christians, Muslims, and Vietnamese

2) Professionals and intellectuals

3) People that refused or could not work

4) Anyone that opposed him- His own Party

Forced fake confessions out of people

Labor camps- Tuol Sleng Ranked them- “old citizens” to

“new citizens”

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE1975-1979

Fall- Vietnam invaded them and replaced with puppet gov

Pot pol fled and continued guerrila attacks until his death

other gov officals tried for inhumane treatment

CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE1975-1979