Genocide

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/genocide

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the historical archetypes?Holocaust, Armenian Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, Bosnian Genocide
2. What is the associated phenomena?Imperialism, colonialism, ethnic cleansing, state-sponsored terror, hate speech
3. Why do people commit genocide?People sometimes do it when they want to destroy a group, using propaganda, dehumanizing language, and the power of a state to carry it out.
4. How can genocide start?It can begin by hurting a group's culture, language, or institutions, and then may move to forced assimilation or even physical killing.

Raphael Lemkin: Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the term 'genocide' and advocated for its international legal recognition.
Genocide Convention: The 1948 United Nations treaty defining and prohibiting genocide as an international crime.
Ethnic Cleansing: A systematic forced removal of ethnic or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful group.