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• Genocide
• When was this term created?
• The systematic extermination of a group of people on the basis of a defining characteristic.
• Term was created after the Holocaust in 1948. Used so the world can identify and stop horrific acts
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• Examples of genocide • -killing members of the group
• -causing serious bodily or mental harm
• -creating living conditions to destroy
• -imposing measures to prevent the birth
• -forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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• Refugee
• 33 million
• Someone who has left their country because of political or environmental reasons and have crossed an international border.
• The number of “refugees” in the world.
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• Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
• What type of protection do each receive?
• Someone that has been forced to move like a refugee but has stayed within the country.
• Refugees are protected by international law, but IDP’s are under the protection of local authorities.
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• What are the consequences?
• Malnutrition• Water• Disease
– Most of which are curable such as the measles
• Rape – Used as a weapon of
war and ethnic cleansing
IDP Women in India and
Central African Republic
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• What are some of the mental consequences?
• Loss of privacy and decency
• Inability to support themselves
• Focused on day to day survival
Young girl collecting firewood
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• What are the living conditions?
• Overcrowded– Causing people to fight
over resources
• Crowded living space causes fires to easily spread in the camps
Fire in Uganda IDP camp
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• Civil War
• Why do people fight in Civil Wars?
• A type of war where people of the same political boundary (country) fight
• Territory• Power• Money• Cultural differences
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• Rebel
• Lord’s Resistance Army
• Term given to individuals that attack the government
• Known as the LRA, this rebel group is fighting the Uganda government
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• Night commute • When young Rwandan children go to shelters to be protected from abduction