William Patterson, a leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Congress, in the petition titled "We Charge Genocide" submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in 1951, argued that the crimes committed by the U.S. government against Black Americans constituted crimes of genocide as defined in the...
Agent Orange has been linked to many health problems in Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese civilians. Thousands have died from conditions likely brought on by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide, and its componentdioxin, is considered to be one of the most dangerous substances in the world [s...
The 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibited lethal gas and bacterial methods of warfare. The Geneva Convention of 1972 reiterated this prohibition by outlawing the "development, production and stockpiling" of these weapons and insisting on the elimination of any already in existence. Genocide -- the ...
Prof. Bachman studies genocide, political violence, and human rights, and Prof. Kitamura has done work on human rights protections. Studying under the supervision of these professors will offer me the chance to delve deeper into specific regional issues. The degree awarded by this program will off...
America. Drums thunder, songs are sung, and dances grace the land the original Native people have called home since the day of their creation. This is known widely as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. However, beneath the surface of this culturally rich celebration lies a day of genocide and piracy....
This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide. I could not care less about how much money Blair makes from his memoirs. If the price of stopping the war ...
11. Genocide The term genocide was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a lawyer of Polish-Jewish origin, in 1944. It was legally defined in the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948. The Convention states that ‘‘genocide means . . . acts commit...
2.Fazlul Quader Quaderi 1971, Bangladesh Genocide and the World Press, in TIME, May 24, reprinted and enlarged in 1997. 3.Hossain, Dodge and Abed 1992, From Crisis to Development. We obviously do not want such things to happen in the future. But they do s...
put the matter on this way: “I knew every Kurdish leader that Rice had met with, and I know not one wanted a united Iraq. Even a casual visitor to Erbil, Kurdistan’s capital, notices the Kurdistan flag that flies everywhere. Kurdistan has its own army and does not allow the new Ira...