what does Genocide meen?
541654
Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the 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."\n\nGood Examples:\n- The Holocaust during World War II\n- Rwanda in 1994
450383
Assassination\n\nass ass in nation
770948
Which govt are you talking about? There are almost 200 in the world. Some are involved in genocide. Sudan leaps immediately to mind. Iraq under Saddam tried. Many others have over the years. The only reason that I know of is that they are evil.\n\nIf you mean our govt, no. never has, never will.
448781
the only thing I know about it is 10 or 15 years ago was a lot of killing between sectarian war. (holocaust or massacre)
157264
*Blinking* Famine, Pestilence, then Death? \n\nWhich war? More details help...
187434
The Armenian Genocide (also known as the Armenian Holocaust or the Armenian Massacre) is a term which refers to the forced mass evacuation and related deaths of hundreds of thousands or over a million Armenians, during the government of the Young Turks from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire. Several facts in connection with the event are a matter of ongoing dispute between parts of the \ninternational community and Turkey. Although it is generally agreed that events said to comprise what is termed the Armenian Genocide did occur, the Turkish government rejects that it was genocide, on the alleged basis that the deaths among the Armenians, were not a result of a state-sponsored plan of mass extermination, but from the result of inter-ethnic strife, disease and famine during the turmoil of World War I.\n\nDespite this thesis, most Armenian, Western, and an increasing number of Turkish scholars believe that the massacres were a case of genocide. For example, most Western sources point to the sheer scale of the death toll. The event is also said to be the second-most studied case of genocide, and often draws comparison with the Holocaust. To date 24 countries, as discussed below, have officially recognized and accepted its authenticity as Genocide.\n\nIn 1914, before World War I, there were an estimated two million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, the vast majority of whom were of the Armenian Apostolic faith, with a small number of the Armenian Catholic and Protestant faiths. While the Armenian population in Eastern Anatolia (also called Western Armenia) was large and clustered, there were large numbers of Armenians in the western part of the Ottoman Empire. Many lived in the capital city of Istanbul.\n\nUntil the late 19th century, the Armenians were referred to as millet-i sadika (loyal nation) by the Ottomans. This meant that they were living in harmony with other ethnic groups and without any major conflict with the central authority. However the Christian Armenians were subject to Islamic dhimmi laws, which gave them fewer legal rights than Muslim fellow citizens. The Tanzimat gave more rights to the minorities in the middle of the 19th century. However, the long ruling Sultan Hamid suspended the constitution early in his reign and ruled as he saw fit. Despite pressure on the Sultan by the major European countries to treat the Christian minorities more gently, abuses only increased.\n\nThe single event that started the chain is most likely the Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire in the War of 1877-78. At the end of this war the Russians took control over a large part of Armenian territory (including the city of Kars). The Russians claimed they were the supporters of Christians within the Ottoman Empire and now they were clearly militarily superior to the Ottomans. The weakening control of the Ottoman government over its empire in the following 15 years led many Armenians to believe that they could regain independence from them.
313676
the movie is pretty damn accurate.  you can also watch a movie called "sometimes in april" also about the genocide.  check out romero dalierres (sp?) book called "shaking hands with the devil".  also check out a book that is titled something like "today we regret to inform you that we will be killed with our families:  stories from rwanda"  written by a journalist.  you can also check out "century of genocide".  for further research check out how similar the rwandan genocide was to the genocide in burundi twenty years before.  VERY VERY similar.  some trial information can be found on the UN website.  good luck.
910866
Actually it's about the mass murder of native Americans by early settlers. \n\nTurkey anyone?
589781
I can answer that with one word.  HITLER! I assume you want more words, though, so here goes.  Why would any race think it's okay to completely exterminate another? What makes them think they are superior? Let's say for the sake or argument that you have blue eyes and I have brown eyes.  My brown-eyed party is in power and we decide everyone with blue eyes is sub-human.  LET'S EXTERMINATE THEM! Does that tell you what I think of genocide?
901967
The Armenian Genocide is true, the Genocides of two other groups of people took place at the same time---the Assyrians and the Greeks. 750,000 innocent Assyrian Christians and close to 2 million Greeks and Armenians died simply because they were Christian. If Armenians did kill the Turks, why did the Turks have ANY right to kill the Assyrian and Greeks? They were incapable of military advances, so why did they perish? My great-grandparents migrated from southern Turkey to northern Iraq in fear of being slaughtered.  It just is not fair and people need to realize and recognize that the Genocides occurred, I know because I'm living proof.
790875
Except for the small detail of the army that's perpetrating that genocide, yes.  The problem is that malnourished people without weapons cannot overtake a governmental army.  It also doesn't help that the African Union is doing nothing to help the situation there.  They have 7,000 troops (who don't do anything) to patrol an area the size of France.
1158632
Because that all there is to report. What's so good about mass genocide? Now our own are arresting our kids for doing what they told them to do in the first place! What kind of **** is that? People wake up! Not even Fox can whitewash this war.
181376
Genocide would probably be hard to stick.  If you get liberal enough in your definitions (get the pun?) you could "convict" pretty much any government that's more than a hundred or so years old with quite a bit.  This is all moot since governments aren’t private citizens and thus can’t be tried as such and your question was about presidents anyways. Saddam Hussein is a self-admitted murderer and thug.  The fact that he couldn’t get an impartial trial anywhere in the western world doesn’t change this fact.  Most American presidents act outside American law at some point in their administration (even if it’s just to steal silverware from the white house upon moving out).  And the answer is no, the fact that they aren’t convicted of these things doesn’t mean we can’t allow the Iraqi people to charge Saddam for as many of the destructive things he did as they care too.
1088741
f**k Turkey! The Armenian genocide is considered THE model of a sucessful genocide. How many Armenians are around Lake Van, a traditionally Armenian area. There are none!! The barbaric Turks murdered them all.\nDon't even get me started about the Kurds!\nAtaturk was a drunken joke and his image and name should be pissed on by everyone who loves freedom and liberty.
415552
Maybe this link will help.\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/WW2res.htm
262073
When things are fighting for their own supreme survival, anything goes.  If you've got a knife stashed in your pocket, and you agree to a fistfight to the death, when you start losing, the knife is brought out.  The quote is saying that everything is tolerable in the aim of survival.  Like in the movie Space Odyssey, the artificial intelligence Al had no real soul.  It just did what it felt it needed to preserve itself, and so killed the crew because they were going to turn him off.  As in war, mustard gas, dehumanization, and torture are all forms of self-preservation.  Kill them before they kill us.  Make them fear us.  Etc.\n\nThe love half of it is kind of ambiguous to me.
535900
The direct American genocide of the Cambodian people lasted from 1969 to 1975. After that the Khmer Rouge, America 's covert clients, took over the job. Estimated civilian deaths: \n 2,000,000 - 2,500,000 people From the U.S. Air Force carpet \n • bombing and the Khmer Rouge combined.  \n Not content with the destruction being wrought upon Southeast Asia, the U.S. began a massive covert bombing campaign against Cambodia , resulting in famine, economic chaos, and a staggeringly high death toll. The desperate conditions created by the bombing set the stage for the Rise to power of the Khmer Rouge, resulting in yet another round of death and destruction for the besieged country. \nCambodian Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret “carpet bombings” of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in 1970. \nThis was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years of American bombing had caused Cambodia 's traditional economy to vanish. The old Cambodia had been destroyed forever. \n Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.