Yugoslavia and Turkey have a history of ethnic conflict. The Serbs in Yugoslavia had long since wanted an independent Greater Serbian State. In fact World War I was started over this dispute. Furthermore, in the new Yugoslavia of 1918 the government only recognized three of the ethnicities, Macedonian Slavs, Albanians, and Muslims were not recognized. As Tim Judah wrote, “This was not just ignorance but foolhardiness, for which the people of former Yugoslavia are still paying today.” Much of the ethno-nationalism felt by the people by the Bosnia-Herzegovina genocide, was a direct result of the violent and confusing history and ideologies prior to and after the World Wars.
This threesome involved the country into WWI as the ally of Germany. Later in 1915 the same government outlined and put into effect a plan for the elimination of Armenians, estimated between two and three millions subjects. The plan was carried out in phases. In April 1915 people represented the Armenian religious, political, educational, and intellectual authority in the Western tradition, variously one thousand individuals, were jailed throughout the entire Empire, and consequently killed within few days. The next phase consisted of liquidation of the young male adult population, which mainly were recruits of the Turkish army.
By 1923, nearly the whole entire Armenian population disappeared. Armenians were killed by Muslim Turkey in the inhumane, evil and brutal
Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
This resolution was a little ounce of hope for second and third generation genocide survivors. But just as the Armenian-Americans’ hope had risen, the resolution was stopped from going any further. Due to the intense pressure from Turkey’s government, America caved, leaving the Armenians disappointed once again. The Armenian Genocide Resolution has been a controversial issue because it interferes with the relationship between the two allies, Turkey and America. One might say that America is being asked to endorse history at the risk of insulting a needed ally (Hughes 1).
Eventually the Islamic empire was weakened from civil war and political issues. Their growth was eventually stopped by the Christians in 1492. During the conquest of Syria and Palestine, the Muslims captured the rich Syrian trade center Damascus in 635, which became their capitol and the location of the caliphs. One year later Islam had took control of the Mediterranean coast reaching from Palestine to the Taurus Mountains. Islamic leaders decided not to advance any farther north, because they were opposed to climbing over the Taurus Mountains, and were intimidated by the military strength of the Byzantine that would be in the middle of the empire.
Agesilaus objected to Leotychidas' reign, saying that he was a mere bastard; the prince replied by saying that there was an oracle that warned against a 'lame king.' The debate was concluded when Lysander, Sparta's best commander and a personal friend of Agesilaus, declared that the (lysander, 400b.c). So, in 400, Agesilaus was accepted as king by the Spartans. Lysander was the proponent of a militant and aggressive foreign policy, and from now on Agesilaus had to follow this policy too. In the year of his accession, he sent general Thibron to what is now Turkey in order to protect the Greek towns against oppression by the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.
The beginning of 1930's saw massive execution of close to six million Jews by Nazis together with those who were collaborating with them. The word "holocaust" has its roots in Greece which translates to a "sacrifice made by fire". When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they believed that they were racially superior and the Jews were inferior and a threat to the Germans (Holocaust encyclopedia,1). It is important to also note that the holocaust also saw other groups of people apart from the Jews targeted. These included the Roma, Russians, Poles, the disabled, etc.
There were many languages that were spoken there. These languages included: Kinyarwanda, French and English. There were also a variety of religions, for example: the Roman Catholic, the Protestants, the Muslims and many more indigenous beliefs. This peaceful country soon changed into a ravaged country where at least 500,000 people were killed between April and July 1994 when a Hutu extremist-led government launched a plan to murder the country’s entire Tutsi minority
In 1944 while the Nazis occupied Europe, Raphael Lemkin introduced the term “genocide” to describe the Holocaust, but in 1948 the meaning widened to a “deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.” [i]For a mass killing to be considered genocide, there must be intent to destroy a specific group of people, which is why scholars debate whether or not some events can be classified as genocide. Even though the word “genocide” is relatively new, genocides have been occurring for over 2000 years. Most people believe that the Third Punic War between Carthage and the Roman Empire was the first genocide. The most recent genocide is the one in Darfur, Sudan that started in 2003. Though horrific, genocides