HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ottoman Empire, Raphael Lemkin, Holocaust Encyclopedia

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 2010
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

Week 10: genocide i: the pre-second world war two era: this term was first used by a polish jewish lawyer named raphael lemkin in 1944. The crime of genocide: genocide is the greatest example of the violation of human rights. Islamic civilization went into decline and did not really recover its former wealth and power: the tactics of the mongols were based on fear and terror. Before the mongol invasions of the 13 to 14th centuries, china had a population of approximately 120 million. After the conquest was over, china"s population was 60 million. Its population had been halved: genocide in the americas. The armenian genocide: the armenians occupy a contentious area between the great 19th century empires of russia and ottoman. Turkey: the armenians were often seen as a threat because of three main reasons, they were a religious minority; 2) they were an ethnic minority; 3) they were seen as a russian ally.