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Genocide

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Running Class Definition of Genocide

 

as of 2/2/07

 

 

Jewish "problem"

 

 

Racial conception of the nation

    territory

    ethnicity

 

 

Jewish people

    disconnected from nation

    animalistic

    Judaism not a religion (race)

    not as worthy

 

Fear

    potential source of dissent

    international power

 

Origins

    creation of a nation

    rallying point

    scapegoat

    militancy of the government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of official definition

After much acrimonious debate, the UN passed a version of a genocide prevention act that everyone could agree with. The main aspects of the act were to define genocide and delineate who should be held accountable for genocide.

 

In brief, genocide is the intent to destroy in whole or in part a group with the following characteristics

  • ethnicity
  • race
  • religion

 

Those who can be held responsbile are government agencies and private individuals, and those who help make genocide possible

 

It is noteworthy that the word "genocide" is so recently added to the English language.  While there have been numerous debates surrounding its official definition, the word has only been in existence a relatively short time.  Lemkin's original attempt to define the concept of genocide as "barbarity" and "vandalism" failed; later he coined the term genocide, meaning the the killing of a race or tribe.  This definition has been altered over time, as can be seen by the official UN definition, and will likely continue to change.

 

There was debate within the United States regarding the term genocide as well as the genocide convention. Many government officials felt that the term genocide would make the United States a target and in turn cause more damage than good. The debate lasted over 40 years. The United States signed the the Genocide Convention in 1948, but it was not ratified until 1988.

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Lemkin had died fighting for the cause and Proxmire spent twenty-two years in the Senate where he gave three thousand, two hundred and eleven speeches on the matter. Yet it still took Reagan's shameful visit to the Bitburg, a cemetry where 49 Nazis were burried, for the US to ratify a watered-down version of the Genocide Convention.

 

Harff's definition of genocide and politicide

Genocide

 

  •  communal characteristics
  • ethnicity, religion, nationality

 

Politicide

  • Political opposition
  • Hierarchical position

 

 

Commonalities within regions

  • Africa - decolonization - politicide
  • Islamic nations - hegemonic suppression - politicide
  • Latin America - Cold War crack-down on leftists - politicide

 

Specter of Genocide Chapter #2

Four ideological characteristics of modern genocide

  • Race
    • dispersing national groups by force
    • destroying langauges
    • racial purity
  • Religion
    • banning practices of specific religions
    • limiting variety of religions
    • abolishing religion as a whole
  • Expansion
    • purify a territory that had mythically belonged to that race
    • not just expansion for expansion's sake
  • Cultivation
    • emphasizing one group
    • specific characteristics
    • not individuals; rather, archetypes
    • poor, farmers, non-intellectual, rural
    • racially pure

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