Democide

Democide; Redefined I remember back to my younger days of history class, learning about ancient civilizations, kings, wars, and revolution. I learned about all of the genocides, massacres, and human slaughtering of many innocent people, with man always on a conquest for more land and power. This mass murdering has continued up until this very day, and is far more common than any type of war or revolution. But from I was told, history is recorded so in the future, we won’t repeat it. According to “Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900”, throughout the 20th century, almost 170 (possibly 360) million people have been murdered by their governments. These deaths approximate to almost four times those from civil and international…

Physical safety and mental health have been common issues work places have come across and tried to deal with. In a number of ways, they have been able to diminish the amount of preventable injury through stricter training and regulation methods as well as imposing work-safe programs which give benefits for years gone by accident free. School systems offer security measures and rule based regulations to create safer learning environments for their students and staff. Mental health programs have…

The terms cultural genocide, eliticide, democide and gendercide all have a relationship to genocide. Whenever the process of genocide occurs, these concepts are often part of it. These concepts have proven applicability to the process of genocide (although cultural genocide can also be carried out without the full process of genocide taking place) Cultural genocide: David Nersessina (2005) describes cultural genocide as extending beyond the physical and biological acts to harm a group by…

A government where the ruler or ruling group has complete control. An example of totalitarian in the phrase "totalitarian regime" which means a rule where the ruler has total authority over everyone. Totalitarian governments came to power because they kill people. Also Totalitarian regimes kill a greater number of foreign citizens. In general, the more totalitarian a government is, the more likely they will kill people. The more totalitarian regimes kill greater number of people. The more…

“We won’t waste our bullets on them. They have no roof. There is sun and rain, cold nights, and beatings two times a day. We give them no food and no water. They will starve like animals.” This quote is from a Serbian soldier speaking about the plans against the Bosnian Muslim captives he guarded (Yancey). To begin, “genocide” is seen differently by everyone involved and has specific steps. In Bosnia, conflicting views created tension amongst its citizens The eight stages of genocide…

Ethnic cleansing can take action through deportation, sterilization, and ultimately mass murders. The Holocaust performed by German Nazi’s, is considered to be one of the largest genocides to take place in the world. Due to the six million people murdered under the ruling of a government leader, Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust is considered both genocide and a democide. The Holocaust falls into par with scientist R. J. Rummel’s concept of democide. Scientist R. J. Rummel graphically constructed the…

In “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, the town no longer enforces laws; in fact the village has no apparent governmental structure to restrain its murderous tradition. It seems as though the government relies heavily on tradition as a tool to achieve order instead of law and elected local government. The village appears to be normal besides its lack of a municipality. The country’s government has also become suspiciously absent from the affairs of its town. With the apparent bloodlust of the…

death in a man-made famine”” In 2006, the Parliament of Ukraine, recognized the Holodomor as a genocide (#5). The United Nations currently does not recognize the Ukrainian famine and a genocide, but rather a national tragedy (#6). V. A) I think it is so hard to define genocide because there is no “formal” definition of what genocide is besides mass violence because of a person’s group (race, religion, etc.) I think people don’t know the true meaning of what genocide is. Becker states that…

cleansing can be done through deportation, displacement and mass killings. The Holocaust was an ethnic cleansing act because the leader, Adolf Hitler was an anti-semite. Therefore, Hitler wanted to “get rid” of the Jewish people. The Jewish people were displaced and deported to concentration camps, without consent. When Jewish people arrived to concentration camps, they were dehumanized and everything was taken away from them. Hitler made Jewish people feel worthless and then, would work people…

in Bengali. Even so the Bengali government, as well as it’s population, sought to forget the atrocities once conceived in the nation by silence. With this came the shunning of rape survivors and the misinterpretation of “biralongas” as dishonored and violated women. Terms including “lanchhita” which translates from “disgraced, harassed, insulted, persecuted” to “stained, tarnished, spotted and soiled” (Bangla Academy Bengali-English Dictionary) were commonly used to describe the birangona…