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…Revisting the Killing Fields Genocide, by definition, is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, or cultural group. The Khmer Rouge, a major political group during the 1950’s to the 1980’s, was very secretive…

…with heroic adventure -- there is no bloodshed -- and Columbus Day is a celebration” (7). He goes on to vituperate historian Samuel Eliot Morison for his brief and buried mention of Columbus’s genocide of the natives. This is one of the most heinous crimes…

…. In the same manner that passion evokes fire, it also evokes hate. This deeply routed hatred, possessed by the Germans toward the Jewish people, provoked the burning of victims by the German troops, so as to allow for more killing and genocide. Early in the novel…

…. In this instance, the relativist belief seems fairly harmless; however, let the reader consider a more serious case. Suppose that a society believed in genocide as a normal cultural function. In this case, the relativist would necessarily adopt the position…

…consequences. In the year before the outbreak of genocidal violence in Rwanda, human rights organizations, as well as its senior advisers repeatedly urged the United Nation, to take action to protect the civilians from massacres. These appealed were not heeded until…

…and Serb Christians also turned their weapons on the Muslim minority. A campaign of terrorism and genocide, which they termed ethnic cleansing, was started by the Serbs against Muslim. Many Muslims were killed outright. Muslim women were raped, and men…

…Panther Party was created on the belief that the United States was structurally racist, and that this racism was attempting to genocide the Black race. The Black Panther Party believed that to counteract this racism, they needed to destroy the power structure…

…unto others that which you wish done unto you”. It is almost ironic that three fourths of the world believes in the Golden Rule yet we still find a reason to kill people and in the case of W.W.II, genocide. It is almost as if the true nature of people…

…inside the belly of a giant fish (whale actually) for three days, somehow failing to be digested in its stomach acids; and that a flood "so great" that it covered all the mountains with water occurred to fulfill a genocidal whim of an apparently all loving…

…and conquest. But Islam, the most unlikely of candidates, has been, throughout the centuries, a relatively tolerant religion. It has never believed in any form of religious genocide, nor had any inquisitions or messianic crusades, as religions of many other parts…