December 1-5

[1Clara]

Monday- Went over forum post leaders stories. Went over Asian maps. We also went over the semester tests and what they are over and when they are.

Tuesday- Today we went over the Asian maps, we then took a political spectrum quiz and discussed political types.

-Radicals- take there beliefs to an extreme to get their point across

-Libertarian- think the government should stay out of things, that you believe

Wednesday- Today we went over the first Asian map for the class quiz tomorrow. We then talked about genocide and ethnic cleansing and discussed our little project due Friday. We then talked about our political spectrum tests and what the different parties mean.

-Project

• Project Link
• Topic- Bosnian Genocide of 92-95 (#4)
• I have #5  ---  Did the United Nations or United States do anything to help during or after the genocide/ethnic cleansing? If they did, what did they do? If not, why didn't they do anything?

Thursday- today we took the first part of Asia class quiz, when also talked about forum post leaders graded tomorrow the political party question on the test next Friday and then talked politics.

-Politics

• Democrat
  • Abortion= Pro Choice- it is a woman's right and should be legal
  • Flag Burning= political speech and is protected by the Constitution 
  • Gun Control= favor/gun control is needed
• Republican
  • Abortion= Pro Life- should be illegal and restricted by government
  • Flag Burning= Protect the flag from burning by a constitutional amendment
  • Gun Control= oppose/gun control is unconstitutional

Friday- Today we went over the Asian maps, and did the genocide/ ethnic cleansing reports. 

-Genocide- 

• Meaning- started in 1944
  • "Geno"- race tribe
  • "Cide"-killing
• Cases-
  • Darfur (Black Africans)- western state of Sudan
    • Janjaweed (Arab- Muslims-- Sudan government supports them)
      • Want the farm land 
      • Killed men, women, and children and raped them 
      • Burned villages
      • polluted waterways
      • they have killed 480 thousand 2.8 million displaced in Chad
      • 100 people day each day and 5000 each month
    • Sudan governments supports and helps the Janjaweed
    • Ending= no end
      • peace treaty has been signed to cease fire (2006)
      • not many people know about it and it still continues
      • UN- raised the alarm and have tried to find a resolution- made it top priority to view-- giving lots of aid to Chad and other areas containing escaped people
      • US- helping the UN with aiding 
    • Believed by some scientists to be-- first genocide caused by global warming 
  • Rwanda-- south of Sudan-- Prior to 1994 (Ethnic Cleansing)
    • Killing of both Hutu & and Tutsi's
      • much of Africa struggles because of European domination for resources
      • Tutsi's= more liked so they were treated better
      • Hutu- president was killed in a plane crash after being shot down and that led to them killing the Tutsi's
        • believed that the Tutsi's did it but they blame the Hutu's
        • Hutu's killed over 800,000 people in 100 days
        • Rwandans are responsible for the killings
        • Hutu extremist profited the most from the presidents death 
          • they had taken over the government 
        • Interhamwe- big group of Hutu militants that started killing the Tutsi's
      • Ending= ended when the Tutsi's dominated and took over
        • the Hutu's went into the Congo- where a lot of issues are continuing to happen
        • UN- didn't do much meaning the US didn't = they kept some peacekeeping troops there
        • US didn't do anything because they had just been involved in different conflict
        • Bill Clinton and people look back and wonder if they really should have got involved 
  • Armenian Genocide 1915-17--- Not recognized as genocide today 
    • Turkish empire killed all the men and deported the children and women and some elders-- they tortured the deportees in many different ways
    • 1-1.5 million people killed 
    • They became an ally to us 
    • They didn't like the ethnic group and they feared Armenians would help Russia in World War I 
    • Ending= relief committees formed-- groups were formed to try and stop but many were taken down 
      • UN was not started yet so treaties were the main form of trying to stop