GENOCIDEPAGE 5

What is the message of the political cartoon?

GENOCIDE• Systematic

destruction of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious, or national group

• How many does it have to be to be called genocide?

GENOCIDE• What acts do you think are included in

genocide? Is it just killing?• Systematic rape• Causing serious bodily or mental

harm• Sterilization/preventing births• Forcibly transferring children to

another group

GENOCIDE• International Criminal Tribunal (later

called the International Criminal Court) established in the Hague in the 1990s

• Hold hearings, try cases, give verdicts and dispense punishments

• Thinking question: Has the ICC been able to stop/prevent genocides?

20TH CENT. GENOCIDES• Armenia• Ukraine• Cambodia• Holocaust• Bosnia• Rwanda• Darfur

SCREAM BLOODY MURDER

• CNN Documentary on Genocides

• Christiane Amanpour

• Intro

ASSIGNMENT• Work in small groups to read about one

of the 20th century genocides• Complete the column on your WS• As a group, create a poster/museum

exhibit that has all of the information needed to fill in the chart

• We will do a gallery walk when finished

REQUIREMENTSYour poster/museum exhibit must have:• At least two hand-drawn pictures

(one can be a map)• Information for each row on the WS• Neat and clear writing – large

enough for others to read

Every group member must contribute