Monday- Discussed Forum Posts. Went over Asia map. Talked about Ferguson Case. Also talked about what we are doing for semester tests.
Tuesday- Took a quiz to see what party we are for.
Wednesday- Went over Asia Maps, class quiz tomorrow. Discussed politics. Got groups for a Genocide assignment.
Thursday- Took class quiz. Talking about abortions. Abortion rate starting to go down from 1989 to 2005. It is still somewhat low. It's not illegal to burn a flag.
Friday-
Darfur in Sudan-2003 to present
1. What specifically happened and why did it happen?
Janjaweed: They went around and killed and raped a bunch of men, women, and children. They burn villages, pollute waterways, they want the farm land. These men are Muslims. They have killed 480 thousand people. 2.8 have been pushed out of their land, and moved. It has been the 1st genocide caused by global warming.
2. How many people were impacted/killed?
100 people die per day, 5,000 per month.
3. Who was responsible?
The Sudan government is kind of responsible for it, for helping them and giving them supplies.
4. How did it end? It hasn't really ended, but its still on-going. They are trying to end it though.
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? United Nations have gave lots of aids, and medical support to these people kicked out that now live in Chad. Global warming has been a big issue.
Rwanda-1994
1. What specifically happened and why did it happen? It is the killing between the Hutu and the Tutsi's. After the 1990's the Hutu president was killed, plane blew up in mid-air. The Hutu's may be responsible, but they did it to make the Tutsi's look bad, and so they had a reason to go after them.
2. How many people were impacted/killed? Hutu killed the Tutsi's -- 800,000 in 100 days
3. Who was responsible? Rwanda helped with this killing. Hasn't been determined who killed the presidents. Hutu had came to power in 24 hours, and were out for the genocide of the Tutsi's.
4. How did it end? The Tutsi military came and killed the Hutu's and took power. Ended in Rwanda.
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? The UN didn't do a whole lot. They had peacekeeping troops there. US didn't want to do anything because they had just got done at a place in Africa and didn't want to be involved in more.
Armenian/Greek genocide by Turkey-WWI years
1. What specifically happened and why did it happen? They feared Armenian people were gonna help Russia. They raped a lot of kids. They put kids out on a boat, and pushed them all out. They starved everyone. Forced everyone to the desert.
2. How many people were impacted/killed? 1.5 million died.
3. Who was responsible? The Turks
4. How did it end? Relief committees formed. People got together and tried performing rebel groups. Different groups of the area came together and help to stop the genocide.
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? They didn't really do anything.
Bosnian genocide-1992-95
1. What specifically happened and why did it happen?
2. How many people were impacted/killed?
3. Who was responsible?
4. How did it end?
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?
**Holodomor(Ukraine) 1932-33 -- My group.
Japanese war crimes on the Chinese-Focus on Rape of Nanking-1937-45
1. What specifically happened and why did it happen?
2. How many people were impacted/killed?
3. Who was responsible?
4. How did it end?
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?
Cambodia(Khmer Rouge/Pol Pot)-1975-79
1. What specifically happened and why did it happen?
2. How many people were impacted/killed?
3. Who was responsible?
4. How did it end?
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?
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