Genocide

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** Template: Ten Stages of Genocide **
 * ** Stage ** || ** Explanation in your Own Words ** || ** Example from the Holocaust ** || ** How it can be Avoided ** ||
 * **CLASSIFICATION** || Cultural distinction to create “Us and Them” differences based on such things as ethnicity, race, and religion. It may create opinions that some are better than others. ||  || To promote common grounds amongst all members of a group such as common language. Search for Ways that people are similar to avoid genocide ||
 * **Symbolization** || they give a way to differenciate between the people they dont like || ** November 23, 1939 -** Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10. ||  ||
 * **DISCRIMINATION** || didnt allow people to do things based on race, culture ect. || ** In January - ** Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances. ||  ||
 * **DEHUMANIZATION** || Take away human rights || ** April 30, 1939 -** Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses. ||  ||
 * **ORGANIZATION** || Organize a way to differenciate the unwanted people from everyone else ||  ||   ||
 * **POLARIZATION** || seperate unwanted people from everyone else || ** October 6, 1939 -** Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews. ||  ||
 * **PREPARATION** || Prepair for the Final Solution || ** January 25, 1940 - ** Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp ||  ||
 * **PERSECUTION** || allow people to be treated worse that anyone else || ** July 6, 1938 -** Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services. ||  ||
 * **EXTERMINATION** || Killing all of the people deemed unfit to live in the society || ** In January - ** A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed. ||  ||
 * **DENIAL** || Deny that they did anything wrong ||  ||   ||

Arminian Genocide
They exploited the religious, cultural, economic and political differences between Turks and Armenians so that the average Turk came to regard Armenians as strangers among them. || People should be educated about the cultures around them and respectful of other peoples traditions ||
 * Stage || Explanation in your Own Words || Example from the Armenian genocide || How it can be Avoided ||
 * CLASSIFICATION || Cultural distinction to create “Us and Them” differences based on such things as ethnicity, race, and religion. It may create opinions that some are better than others. || Christian Armenians were once again branded as infidels (non-believers in Islam). || To promote common grounds amongst all members of a group such as common language. Search for Ways that people are similar to avoid genocide ||
 * Symbolization || they give a way to differenciate between the people they dont like || branded as infidels
 * DISCRIMINATION || didnt allow people to do things based on race, culture ect. || Turks disarmed the entire Armenian population under the pretext that the people were naturally sympathetic toward Christian Russia. || When descrimination begins to appear in a culture it has to be stoped by teaching children how to respect other people ||
 * DEHUMANIZATION || Take away human rights || . In the fall and winter of 1914, all of their weapons were confiscated and they were put into slave labor battalions building roads or were used as human pack animals. || There should be strict laws against a group being dehumanized ||
 * ORGANIZATION || Organize a way to differenciate the unwanted people from everyone else || Next, there were mass arrests of Armenian men throughout the country by Turkish soldiers, police agents and bands of Turkish volunteers. The men were tied together with ropes in small groups then taken to the outskirts of their town and shot dead or bayoneted by death squads. || The UN should step in at this point if a country gets to this stage ||
 * POLARIZATION || seperate unwanted people from everyone else ||  || all cultures should intermingle and learn about each other ||
 * PREPARATION || Prepair for the Final Solution || On very short notice, they were ordered to pack a few belongings and be ready to leave home, under the pretext that they were being relocated to a non-military zone for their own safety. They were actually being taken on death marches heading south toward the Syrian desert. || People should stop this trend before it gets to this point ||
 * PERSECUTION || allow people to be treated worse that anyone else || Individual caravans consisting of thousands of deported Armenians were escorted by Turkish gendarmes. These guards allowed roving government units of hardened criminals known as the "Special Organization" to attack the defenseless people, killing anyone they pleased. They also encouraged Kurdish bandits to raid the caravans and steal anything they wanted. || People should learn cultural acceptance ||
 * EXTERMINATION || Killing all of the people deemed unfit to live in the society || An estimated 75 percent of the Armenians on these marches perished, especially children and the elderly. Those who survived the ordeal were herded into the desert without a drop of water. Others were killed by being thrown off cliffs, burned alive, or drowned in rivers. || Other countries should get involved at this point ||
 * DENIAL || Deny that they did anything wrong || the Turks demolished any remnants of Armenian cultural heritage including priceless masterpieces of ancient architecture, old libraries and archives. The Turks even leveled entire cities such as the once thriving Kharpert, Van and the ancient capital at Ani, to remove all traces of the three thousand year old civilization. || If this happens there should be no denial and survivors should be paid for what they went through ||