Modern+Day+Genocides

Modern Day Genocides Austin Loy
 * What is [|genocide]?**
 * Acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial, or relgious group
 * This is can be by:
 * Killing members of a group
 * Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group
 * Intenting to inflict on group conditions to bring physical destruction in parts or wholes
 * Imposing measures to prevent births in group
 * Rwandan Genocide**
 * Started when the Rwandan president and Hutu president were assasinated
 * Rwandan ambassador from U.S reported to U.S. that genocide was going on and so U.S. evacuated all American citizens
 * Lasted about 100 days from April 6 through mid-July 1994
 * U.S. wasn't very involved in peacekeeping
 * Canada led the UN peacekeeping
 * Involved to main extremist groups the Interhamwe and the Impuzamugambi[[image:http://www.worldproutassembly.org/rwanda-2.gif align="center"]]
 * 500,000 Tutis and thousands of moderate Hutus died
 * Estimates put death toll between 800,000-1,000,000
 * Many people fled fearing reprisals
 * Genocide still continued even after it was believed to be the end
 * This triggered the 1st and 2nd Congo Wars


 * Darfuran Genocide**
 * Armed conflict
 * In Darfur region in western Sudan
 * Mainly between the Janjaweed
 * Sudanese government supported Janjaweed and provided assistance with attacks
 * Mainly targeted the Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethic groups
 * Began in July 2003
 * When the fighting worsened UN Security Council sen 17,300 troops
 * They joined forces with an African Union Mission Army
 * A ill-equipped 7,000 soldier peacekeeping force
 * Sudan announced that any peacekeeping forces would be seen as foreign invaders
 * Sudan launced a major military offense into the area
 * Sudan failed to attend UN Peacekeeping meetings
 * Supposedly an agreement was made but Sudan denyed it
 * Many organizations agreed that this genocide killed anywhere from 50,000 to 2,000,000 people