About 800 metres from the huts, the defenceless black people were hacked and slashed to death. Only one of the whole clan was spared – John Blake appears to have selected an Aboriginal woman. All of the other Aboriginal people were beheaded and their headless bodies were left where they fell. It is thought that the gang spent the night camped out, carousing and recalling their bloody deeds. Meanwhile, Anderson waited at the hut, later claiming to have never visited the site.
Any genocide in history is important because a lot of people died in cruel and unusual ways and it’s wrong. Victims of any genocide did not deserve to be discriminated against and did nothing to deserve to be killed from pure hate, and that is exactly what happened in the Ukraine Famine. The Ukraine Famine was headed by Joseph Stalin during 1932-1933. Millions Ukrainian people starved to death and as a result, it oppressed the national pride of the Ukrainian people. In 1929, Stalin arrested over 5,000 educated Ukrainian people and they were either shot without trail or sent to prison camps in remote areas in Russia.
It was a sad day for the Sioux with many tears shed and many prayers sent. As time went by the great buffalo was almost driven to extinction. Unfortunately I cannot blame the white man entirely for this tragedy, as I and all Lakota Sioux many times killed to many buffalo to use and wasted much. With more and more white men pouring into our lands, by the 1850’s we were at conflict with one another mainly over land. Treaties were signed but rarely honored and many were nothing more than underhand ways to steal our land.
The country had been in a state of segregation for a decade and as a result there had been riots and civil unrest among the blacks and fierce oppression by the whites, this was a place very like a warzone, which leads into the second poem What were they Like? This poem is set in Vietnam soon after the war. The country had been devastated by a bloody conflict with the USA which had resulted in an awful human cost. The USA also devastated the country with horrific weapons of mass destruction. The new weapon napalm was used to burn villages many lives in Vietnam were lost as they were in South Africa.
New York: A.A. Knopf :, 1998.] The Nanking Massacre, also called the rape of Nanking, is considered to be one of the most tragic and brutal event that has ever happened in the human history which took away thousands of lives. The encounter of two different groups of people could lead to a war, an alliance, or a mutual beneficial relationship; a brutal massacre happened in the case of the encounter between the Chinese and Japanese. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the author’s, John Rabe, diaries that he kept with him during the Nanking Massacre; the book gives readers a detail accounts of John Rabe’s experience and the realistic description of the incident. John Rabe was an international businessman who spent almost thirty years of his life in China; throughout the thirty years he spent in China, though he did not learn any Chinese, he learned their lifestyle, their culture and traditions, and he also learned to think like a local Chinese[ Foreword, xiii].This dairy of John Rabe’s lets readers have a deeper understanding of how the Chinese, especially those in Nanking during the massacre, felt when they were under Japanese’s ferocious attack.
It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide. In the weeks after April 6, 1994, 800,000 men, women, and children perished in the Rwandan genocide, perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. At the same time, thousands of Hutu were murdered because they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it. The Rwandan genocide resulted from the conscious choice of the elite to promote hatred and fear to keep itself in power. This
The effects were catastrophic. With the convicts, soldiers and settlers came diseases to which Aboriginal people had no resistance - typhoid, flu, smallpox and venereal disease. The next hundred years saw Aboriginal people forced out of their country, dispossessed of habitable land, shot, poisoned and massacred as successive waves of British settlers sought land for building, agriculture, grazing and mining. Rape and abduction of Aboriginal women and girls were common. Some tribes at first welcomed or tolerated the newcomers, but as it became clear that the British intended to stay, conflict escalated.
Port Phillip April 20, 1770 – First recorded European sighting of the Victorian coast. 1789 – This was the second year of settlement by the Europeans. Also, a Small Pox epidemic wiped out about half of the Aboriginal population around Sydney and spread north to the Hunter Valley. The epidemic also traveled from tribe to tribe down into possibly the whole of Victoria, except for the less accessible regions such as Gippsland and the Southern Alps. 1798 – George Bass explored the Western Port 1802 – Distrust between Europeans and Ab.
Genocide does exist today in countries around the world today like Darfur, Sudan. People in Darfur, Sudan are experiencing genocide. Sudan is in the North East side of Africa. Darfur is the South Western part of the country. The genocide in Darfur, Sudan has already caused hundreds of thousands of Darfuris to die and cause more than 2 million people to be homeless.
Srebrenica genocide The Srebrenica massacre that happened during July 1995 killed more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims mainly boys and men during the Bosnian war. The mass murder was filled out by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) who were commanded by General Ratko Mladić. The Serbian group called the Scorpions also took part and so did Greek and Russian volunteers. The UN deemed it the worst killing since the Second World War. The UN stated that Srebrenica was a ‘safe place’ as it was under UN protection however the 400 Dutch peacekeepers did not do anything to prevent the capture and massacre of Srebrenica.