How is this done? Put differently, do the perpetrators think they are doing their people a great, historic service, or do they think they are morally transgressing and committing a great crime? If the latter, then how, emotionally and psychologically, do they persist?
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Produced by WNET. Included in this portion of the lecture was a shocking statistic — in the 20 th century alone, it is estimated that 60 million people lost their lives due to genocides or mass killings.
Waller believes that is a conservative number. Waller, referring to the Holocaust, asked the room. There was silence. No one, not even Dr. We focus on the victims, not the perpetrators, except when speaking of the evil that was done by them. The core of Dr. The choices perpetrators faced, the emotions they felt, the coping mechanisms they used, and the changes they underwent, were all things that Dr. He has interviewed both perpetrators and survivors to try and get some answers to those statements.
The problem with this, however, is while speaking to the perpetrators, one may start to feel a sense of empathy towards them. The point of the lecture was not to feel empathetic, but to understand how the perpetrators of genocide and mass killings came to kill, as Dr.
In August , a leaked UN report alleged that Rwandan Hutus, perpetrators of the genocide, may themselves have been victims of the same crime. Krstic appealed against his conviction, arguing that the 8, people killed constituted "too insignificant" a number to be a genocide. In the ICTY rejected his appeal. And in , Nuon Chea, 92, and Khieu Samphan, 87, were both sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity for their roles in the Khmer Rouge killings.
Congo killings 'may be genocide'. Bosnian Serb cleared of genocide. Image source, AFP. Some have argued that the only genocide was the Nazi Holocaust. Definition and debate. Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Image source, Getty Images. Ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus were targeted in the Rwandan genocide. The convention excludes targeted political and social groups The definition is limited to direct acts against people, and excludes acts against the environment which sustains them or their cultural distinctiveness Proving intention beyond reasonable doubt is extremely difficult UN member states are hesitant to single out other members or intervene, as was the case in Rwanda There is no body of international law to clarify the parameters of the convention though this is changing as UN war crimes tribunals issue indictments The difficulty of defining or measuring "in part", and establishing how many deaths equal genocide.
How many genocides have there been? The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks between , an accusation that the Turks deny The Holocaust, during which more than six million Jews were killed Rwanda, where an estimated , Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the genocide. More than 7, Muslim men were killed at Srebrenica in Report: 'Credible case' China is carrying out genocide.
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A former inmate describes conditions at a secret Chinese camp for Uighurs.
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