The project requires you to research and write about one of the following genocide or mass killing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. epees of
1.) The Herero genocide (1900s) 7.) Bangladesh (East Pakistan; 1970s)
2.) Armenian genocide (1915-1918)
3.) Ukrainian famine (1930s) 8.) Cambodia (1970s) 9.) Iraq—Ari/Operations (1980s)
4.) Guatemala (19.50s-1980s) 10.) Rwanda (1994)
5.) Indonesia (1960s) 11•) Bosnia (former Yugoslavia; 1990s)
6.) East Timor (1970s-1_990s) 12.) Darfur (Sudan; 2000s) 13.) Myanrnat (Rotlingya Muslims; 2012•present) For the event you choose you will need to discuss whether it should be considered “genocide,” its historical background, and the response or role of the United States. To help you begin your research the following books have been placed on reserve in the library.
1.) D. Bloxham and A. Moses, editors, The Oxford HandbooA of Genocide Studies (2010)
2.) William H. Hewitt, editor, Defining the Horrific (2004)
3.) Adam Jones, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (2006)
4.) Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002)
5.) Samuel Totten et al, editors, Century of Genocide (2’4 edition 2004)
6.) S. Totten and E. Markusen, editors, Genocide in Darfur (2006) Structure You should begin your paper by discussing the term “genocide.”
How has the term been defined? Is there a difference between genocide and other episodes of mass killing?
How is genocide defined by the United Nations? Why is the definition important?
Next discuss the historical background of the particular event you have chosen from the list above.
This will involve some difficult decisions, and you may want to discuss your paper with your instructor at this point. How far back in time is it necessary to go to understand the toots of this event?
What roles were played by racial, ethnic, or religloupslady in ng the divisions? What the Political context of the event?
What roles, if any, did other nations conditions that made genocide or mass In the third part of your paper, killing possible? briefly describe the genocide or mass liaihn%. kdemit.4‘hq perpetrators, victims, anedkbiliYlnStga were f killing wt used? How many people ere killed? How did th bystanders. What means o end?
