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- Rwanda Genocide (PBS Frontline)
Provides history of events on how genocide in Rwanda was ignored. Question - How can genocide, holocausts, be avoided in the future. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost.
- Genocide (PBS Frontline)
Describes the crime of genocide, the attempt to destroy an ethnic group.
- 09-09-04 Powell Declares Genocide in Sudan (BBC News)
"The US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said the killings in Sudan's Darfur region constitute genocide." 9-04
- 09-15-06 Clooney Warns U.N. of First Genocide of the 21st Century (Chicago Tribune)
"Actor George Clooney warned the UN's most powerful body Thursday that if it did not send peacekeepers to Sudan's Darfur region, millions would die in the first genocide of the 21st Century." 09-06
- -07-14-08 Sudanese President Charged With Genocide (MSNBC News)
"The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges Monday against Sudan's president, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation." 07-08
- -06-08-11 Hitler's Infamous Genocide Letter (Time.com)
"In September 1919, the year after the end of World War I, a German captain named Karl Mayr, who ran a propaganda unit in charge of educating demobilized soldiers in nationalism and scapegoating, received an inquiry from a soldier named Adolf Gemlich about the army's position on "the Jewish question." Mayr tasked a young subordinate named Adolf Hitler to answer. The resulting Gemlich letter, as it is known to historians, is believed to be the first record of Hitler's anti-Semitic beliefs and has been an important document in Holocaust studies for decades." 06-11
- Rwanda Girl Who Refused to Die (PBS Frontline)
Provides the story of one girl who survived a massacre.
- Holocaust - Teaching Guidelines for Grades K - 4 (Florida Center for Instructional Technology)
Provides guidelines for teaching topics that lead up to discussion of the holocaust in the eighth grade through high school. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
- Holocaust - Timelines - High School Level (Wiesenthal Center)
Provides a timeline related to the atrocities of the holocaust in Europe during World War II. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost. 5-00
- Holocaust History (Wiesenthal Center)
Provides resources related to the holocaust during World War II. Sometimes misspelled as holacaust, holacost, or holocost.
- Dispute Over War Crimes Court Settled Temporarily (BBC News)
Summarizes the settlement between the USA and the United Nations regarding war crimes. The Bush administration of the United States has demanded immunity for US citizens from prosecution for war crimes. An International Criminal Court (ICC) has been set up by the United Nations to bring individuals to justice who have been involved in genocide and similar war crimes and who live in nations without the ability or desire to bring them to justice.
- Starving in Sudan (BBC News)
Provides powerful word pictures of the extreme suffering of women and children in Sudan. The suffering and starvation is being caused by warfare rather than by drought. 6-04
- Editorial - The Wolf is Real and No One is Listening (International Herald Times - Booker)
"Once upon a time, Washington could have exercised its clout as the most powerful nation in the world and handily won over the support of these recalcitrant members. But now, the country that cried wolf has lost the moral authority it needs to rally its global neighbors to real action against genocide in Darfur." 9-04
- -01-27-05 Holocaust Remembered (USA Today)
"As candles flickered in the snowy, winter gloom, world leaders and Auschwitz survivors Thursday remembered victims of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp." 1-05
- Wiesenthal, Simon (Simon Wiesenthal Center)
"Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi Hunter has died in Vienna at the age of 96, the Simon Wiesenthal Center announced today (September 20th)."
" 'Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust,' said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the International Human Rights NGO named in Mr. Wiesenthal’s honor, adding, 'When the Holocaust ended in 1945 and the whole world went home to forget, he alone remained behind to remember.' " 9-05
- Wiesenthal, Simon (Wikipedia.org)
"Wiesenthal dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity." 9-05
- -11-09-05 Presidential Medal of Freedom Awards Bestowed (CBS News)
"Boxer Muhammad Ali led the roster of those honored by President Bush today with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. government's highest civilian award."
"The honorees included entertainers, athletes, authors, and hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, whose courage and compassion in sheltering people at the hotel he managed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was depicted in the movie 'Hotel Rwanda.' " 11-05
- -04-20-06 East African Disaster Deepens (ABC News)
"Over the last three years, about 3 million people have fled their homes and nearly 200,000 people have died as Sudan's government and pro-government Arab militias have attacked, pillaged and raped the black African population in what many have called genocide." 04-06
- -12-23-06 Holocaust Infrastructure Much Larger Than Previously Thought (USA Today)
"Couched in patronizing and dehumanizing language, documents from the earliest camps foreshadow a system that would define the word "genocide." They show that years before the mass-scale killings began at death camps such as Auschwitz, the intellectual groundwork of viewing categories of humanity as subhuman was already in place." 12-06
- Hitler, Adolf (Wikipedia.org)
"Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party. He became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 and Führer in 1934. He ruled until 1945."
"Hitler's bid for territorial conquest and racial subjugation had caused the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the systematic genocide of an estimated six million Jews, not including various other 'undesirable' populations, in what is known as the Holocaust." 03-08
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