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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

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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