Bangladesh Genocide Quotes
Genocide’s
“We were told to kill. Our commanding officer ordered us not to waste time.” In this quote, the aggressor in the Bangladesh Genocide, saw himself as just following orders. According to history Genocide’s tend to have three similar traits: gaining power, race/religion, and revenge.
One of the strongest reasons why genocides occurred was because of political/gaining power. In the Rwandan Genocide over a million of Tutsis perished during 1962-1994 which made Hutus promote fear and hatred in order to keep itself in power. The Hutus would set majority against minority against the Tutsis, in which they believed that the political opposition would grow. In the Darfur Genocide, the Sudanese army attacked many villages, especially those of African farmers, in which killed three hundred thousand people, while two million were displaced. Political power is demonstrated in the Chinese Genocide that started in 1966. Mao, the ruler created “The Great Leap Forward”, which was a plan to convert China’s economy from agricultural to an industrial economy, but things went wrong, in which resulted in millions of deaths. …show more content…
In the Hollocaust, Natzis the aggresor, would kill about six million Jews, along with three million people from other groups. People who qualified as a victim was Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah witnesses, people who stood up to Hitler, and basically anybody that did not look German. People that belonged to any of the categories were killed, in which shows how race and religion was a big factor. In the Stalin Genocide race and religion was a great cause of death as well. The Russia Soviet Union would target the Muslims or the non Greek Orthodox. The deaths in Cambodia’s Genocide was also because of race/religion. The Khmer Rouge would attack Cambodians and those who were officials of a former government, and anybody who questioned or opposed the
“We were told to kill. Our commanding officer ordered us not to waste time.” In this quote, the aggressor in the Bangladesh Genocide, saw himself as just following orders. According to history Genocide’s tend to have three similar traits: gaining power, race/religion, and revenge.
One of the strongest reasons why genocides occurred was because of political/gaining power. In the Rwandan Genocide over a million of Tutsis perished during 1962-1994 which made Hutus promote fear and hatred in order to keep itself in power. The Hutus would set majority against minority against the Tutsis, in which they believed that the political opposition would grow. In the Darfur Genocide, the Sudanese army attacked many villages, especially those of African farmers, in which killed three hundred thousand people, while two million were displaced. Political power is demonstrated in the Chinese Genocide that started in 1966. Mao, the ruler created “The Great Leap Forward”, which was a plan to convert China’s economy from agricultural to an industrial economy, but things went wrong, in which resulted in millions of deaths. …show more content…
In the Hollocaust, Natzis the aggresor, would kill about six million Jews, along with three million people from other groups. People who qualified as a victim was Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah witnesses, people who stood up to Hitler, and basically anybody that did not look German. People that belonged to any of the categories were killed, in which shows how race and religion was a big factor. In the Stalin Genocide race and religion was a great cause of death as well. The Russia Soviet Union would target the Muslims or the non Greek Orthodox. The deaths in Cambodia’s Genocide was also because of race/religion. The Khmer Rouge would attack Cambodians and those who were officials of a former government, and anybody who questioned or opposed the