Crimes against Humanity Flashcards
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Governments can pass laws that
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- Restrict freedom of speech
- Forbid criticism of government actions
- Demand identification
- Deny education and employment
- Restrict movements (ppl cant enter certain places)
- Deny human rights
- Denied access to housing, food, and water
- homes and belongings are taken away
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Define genocide
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Deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group
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Acts of genocide
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- Killing members of the group
- Bodily or mental harm to a group
- Inflicting on the groups conditions of life to cause physical destruction
- Prevent births within the group
- Transfer children to another group
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Define War Crime
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- Willful killing, torture or inhumane suffering of civilian population
- Intentional attacks towards civilian population or ppl involved in humanitarian or peacekeeping missions
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Name acts of Crimes Against Humanity
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- Murder
- Extermination
- Enslavement
- Deportation/Transportation
- Imprisonment/loss of physical liberty
- Torture
- Sexual violence (rape)
- Persecution of certain group (political, ethnic, racial)
- Enforced disappearances
- Other acts that harm body, mental, physical health
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Oskar Schindler
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Saved Jews by allowing them to work in his factory
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Feng Shan Ho
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Gave jews visas that allowed them to travel
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Paul Rusesabagina
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Hotel manager of hôtel des mille collines in Kigali, where Tutsis and moderate Hutus took shelter
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N.A.T.O
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- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Military alliance that sought to create a counterweight Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe
- Established April 4 ,1949
- Provides a link between these two continents
- An attack against one is considered an attack against all
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Collective Defence
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An attack one one ally is an attack on all allies
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International Criminal Court
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- Established in 1948
- Governments feared that the court would challenge their sovereignty
- Set up as a court of last resort (only steps in when national court fails to do so)
- Set up in 1998, cannot operate until 60 countries agreed to support it
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Eight Stages of Genocide
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- Classification
- Symbolization
- Dehumanization
- Organization
- Polarization
- Preparation
- Extermination
- Denial
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Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (in Japan)
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- First time world has seen nuclear weapons
- Initiated by US (Harry S Truman)
- Two nuclear attacks
- Urakami Valley also affected
- Harry S. Truman ordered the attacks in hopes that Japan would be pushed to eventually surrender
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Bombing on Hiroshima
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- August 6, 1945
- Bomb released by a plane named ENOLA GAY
- 63% of buildings were destroyed
- Killed 90,000-120,000 ppl
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Bombing on Nagasaki
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- August 9, 1945
- Bomb release by plane named Bocks car
- Center was not hit bcs of surrounding hills
- 22.7% buildings were destroyed
- 60,000- 80,000 killed
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Ukrainian Genocide
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- A famine between 1932 and 1933
- Organized by Joseph Stalin, 40% of produce was taken by government
- 2.8 - 12 million killed
- Soviets were superior
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Rwandan Genocide
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- Hutu inferior and turned superior, Tutsis were hunted
- 800,000 killed
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Armenian Genocide
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- Mass killing against the Armenian people in Ottoman Empire
- Planned by Turkish government
- 1915-1918 (during WW1)
- Armenian ppl where forced out of their homes, deported, abducted, tortured and starved
- 1.5 million killed (70%) of
Armenian population
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Cambodian Genocide
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- Khmer Rouge seized control April 17, 1975, wanted to install a communist Agrarian based economy on simple farming and maintaining crops
- Executed, imprisoned, and tortured doctors, teachers, intellectuals, monks and the rich
- Regular citizens sent to labour camps to farm
