Genocide: Home

RESEARCH PART I, II & III - HERE

PART I

How Hate Gained Power - Timeline

The Stages of Genocide

Classification - Separating people into groups
Dehumanization - Treating the group unfairly and taking away their rights.
Polarization - Driving the two groups even further apart by making one be seen as the enemy.
Organization and Preparation -  Planning and preparing for the genocide.
Extermination -  Killing begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.”
Media - The media is used to spread propaganda, bias,  to the public to ensure complicity in genocide.

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- Armenian Genocide (1915-1916)  eNotes

- Cambodian Genocide (1975-1979) - eNotes

- Rwandan Genocide (1994) - eNotes

- Sudan/Darfur Genocide (2003-2020) - eNotes

- Myanmar Genocide (2016-2017) - eNotes

PART II

Upstanders, Rescuers, Resisters

Research Organizer and Topics - HERE

PART III

Museum Exhibit

Instruction Document for the Exhibit - HERE

RWANDA

Rescuer

Unknown Heroes

Therese Nyirabayovu

Paul Rusesabagina

Josephine Dusabimana

Mbaye Diagne

Enoch RwanburindI

Joseph Habineza

CAMBODIA

Unknown Heroes

Loung Ung

Duch Kaem

ARMENIA

Turkish Rescuers

Unknown Heroes

Raphael Lemkin

MYANMAR

Doctors Without Borders (NGO)
Human Rights Watch (NGO) About HRW

SUDAN

Rebecca Hamilton

Mark Hanis 

- The Holocaust (1940-44) eNotes 

ARMENIA

• Conflict and Atrocity in Armenia
• Armenian Genocide Explained
• Armenian Genocide Article (Smith)
• NewsELA Article
• World Without Genocide

CAMBODIA

• The Cambodian Genocide
• Picturing Moral Change - Cambodia
• Cambodian Genocide article (Smith)
• Khmer Rouge: Cambodia's years of brutality 
• Cambodian Genocide Explained
• World without Genocide
• Yale University - Genocide Studies Program
• Cambodia Diary 6: Child Soldiers — Driven by Fear and Hate (GOOD SOURCE FOR POLARIZATION)

SUDAN / DARFUR

• Genocide in Sudan
• Civil War in South Sudan
• Sudan Genocide (Smith)
• NewsELA Article (Read starting at “Darfur”)
• Darfur Explained
• World without Genocide

MYANMAR

• The Rohingya in Myanmar
• NewsELA Article 
• World Without Genocide
• Rohingya People

RWANDA

• The Rwandan Genocide
• NewsELA Article 
• Rwandan Genocide Article (Smith)
• History.com
• USHMM - Rwanda Genocide Explained
• World Without Genocide
• The Rwandan Genocide

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Classification - Separating people into different groups. 

Dehumanization - Treating the group unfairly and taking away their rights (discrimination).

Polarization - Driving the two groups even further apart by making one be seen as the enemy.

Organization and Preparation -  Planning and preparing for the genocide. 

Extermination -  Killing begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.”

Media - The media is used to spread propaganda, bias, or other information to the public to ensure complicity in genocide.

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

A good place to find background information is to start with an encyclopedia.

 Encyclopedia Britannica

 World Geography & Culture

MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION 

 Issues & Controversies

 Modern World History 

 Newsbank

Links to Newspaper Sites from the Library Website

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