Genocide

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This paper analyzes the history of genocide in the world. It discusses specific examples of genocide and gendercide throughout history - focusing on when and where they took place, as well as details of how and why they were carried out. It also discusses law that have been established with regards to acts of genocide.

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" One of the most notorious modern acts of gendercide and genocide in the world occurred in the Bosnian silver-mining town, called Srebrenica, in July 1995 (Jones 2001). The events in this town were the culmination of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the most vicious genocidal battleground in the Balkans conflict. This conflict started in 1992 and was characterized by large-scale genocidal and gendercidal acts. The Balkans is a major mountain range in Southeast Europe spanning 563 kilometers from Yugoslavia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea. Bosnia is a region in the northern part of Herzegovina, while Herzegovina is the region in the southern part. The Serbs were the settlers in Bosnia in the seventh century until it became independent in the 12th century. It came under the control of Turkey in 1463 along with Herzegovina until the latter's conquest by the Austro-Hungarian Empire after 1878 and the addition of Bosnia in 1908. After World War II, Bosnia and Herzegovina united to form a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, which existed from 1946 to 1991."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cable News Network. Srebrenica Genocide Trial Closes. CNN.com: Time Warner Company, 2001. http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/26/Krstic.charged/?related
• Jones, Adam. The Srebnica Massacre, July 1995. Gendercide Watch, 2002. http://www.gendercide.org/case_srebrenica.html
• Sells, Michael A. Massacre in Srebrenica. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. http://www.haverford.edu/relg/sells/reports.html
• Wikipedia. Srebrenica Massacre. Media Wiki, 2005. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

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