Question 1

What does the term genocidaire mean?

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The French term genocidaires means "those who commit genocide" and was used during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 to describe a group of people who view the killing of a certain group of people as eliminating "the problem," plan genocide, and initiate the ideas passed on to those who commit genocidal acts.

Question 2

What is the role of the majority and the minority in a genocide?

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Genocide involves the killing and destruction of a group of people with less political and social power (the minority) by those who hold power (the majority).

Question 3

What is genocide?

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The United Nations (1946) defines genocide as "killing members of a group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." Vahakn Darian (1975) states that, "Genocide is the successful attempt by a dominant group, vested with formal authority and/or with preponderant access to the overall resources of power, to reduce by coercion or lethal violence the number of a minority group whose ultimate extermination is held desirable and useful and whose respective vulnerability is a major factor contributing to the decision of genocide."

Question 4

What is the Genocide Convention and what are the five activities it uses to define genocide?

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Question 5

How is holocaust different from genocide?

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Question 6

What is the role of genocidaires?

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Question 7

What is the role of perpetrators of genocide?

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Question 8

What is the role of bystanders of genocide?

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Question 9

What is the international community and what is its role in terms of genocide?

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Question 10

What is an atrocity?

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Question 11

What is a mass murder?

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Question 12

What is forced deportation/forced population transfer/forced migration?

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Question 13

What is ethnic cleansing?

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Question 14

How are systematic rape and biological subjugation used as weapons of genocide?

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Question 15

What is economic subjugation?

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Question 16

Why is economic subjugation an important part of genocide?

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Question 17

What is eliminationism?

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Question 18

What are the five principle forms of eliminationism, according to Daniel Goldhagen?

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Question 19

Why is it difficult to classify a particular genocide by type?

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Question 20

What are some of the types of genocide?

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Quiz 7: Economics of Genocide