Human rights are moral principles that describe certain standards of human behavior. These are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being," and which are "inherent in any time or place” (Sepúlveda 3). These rights have been put into one official, universal document called: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although it is assumed that these rights are applied to all, this is not true in all cases; for example, Article 18 states that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. This article is often times not applicable in times of war where religion and political views determine one’s livelihood. One example of religion being the reason for out casting and persecution was in the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s’. As a result, many people suffer pain and agony like the author of the book, The Bosnia List, Keenan Trebincevic. Kenan and his family were mistreated and judged based on their …show more content…
religion and beliefs, their humans rights were violated by mockery and theft. The Bosnia List is a first-hand account of the loss of human rights in a time of war, the book covers the experiences of his family and himself during the war in Bosnia beginning in 1993.
The Trebincevic family, and many others, experienced many violations of human rights during the ethnic and cultural cleansing taking place at the time. A few examples of these violations would be: curfews, forced relocations, rape, castration, imprisonment in concentration camps, and killings. Much like Hitler’s plan to remove the Jews, during the war many of the Serbian soldiers goal was to eliminate and Bosniaks and Croatians from Serbian territory. The war in Bosnia claimed the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and displaced more than two million. In the largest massacre since the Holocaust in Europe, nearly 8,000 Bosniaks were killed in July of 1995 (“Bosnian
Genocide”). The problems faced in Yugoslavia at the time can all be traced back to the nation states’ formation. Yugoslavia was formed immediately following the end of World War II by combining many previously established nations. Yugoslavia was made up of Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia with many other ethnic groups making up the population. Within the extremely diverse nation state were many different religious groups, these included: Catholic Croats, Orthodox Christian Serbs, Muslim Bosniaks, and Muslim Albanians. The nation state was first led by President Josip Broz Tito, he came to power in 1943, and ruled through a dictatorship. Tito made an effort to make sure that no one ethnic group dominated the country. Tito banned political mobilization and actively tried to create a unified Yugoslav identity. However, after he died in 1980, everything began to come unglued. The many diverse, numerous ethnic groups and republics inside Yugoslavia sought independence, and as the end of the Cold War approached, the country was reduced to turmoil. Amidst the turmoil, in 1987 Slobodan Milosevic came to power. Favoring Serbians, Milosevic used nationalist feelings to his advantage by making changes to the constitution favoring Serbians, creating a military that was 90 percent Serbian, and extending his power over the country’s financial, media, and security structures. With the help of Serbian separatists in Bosnia and Croatia, he convinced the Serbian people that the other ethnic groups were a threat, much like Hitler with the anti-Jew campaign. When Yugoslavia began to collapse in June of 1991, the republics of Slovenia and Croatia declared independence. The Yugoslavian army, made up of of Serbs, invaded Croatia claiming that they were protect ethnic Serb populations there. They took the city of Vukovar, carrying out mass executions of hundreds of Croat men, burying them in mass graves. This was the beginning of the ethnic cleansings that characterized the atrocities committed during the Yugoslav Wars. Bosnia came next in April 1992. Following their independence, Serbian forces accompanied by Bosnian Serbs attempted to ethnically cleanse the territory of the Bosniaks. Snipers hid and shot at civilians as they tried to get food and water. Mass executions, concentration camps, rape and sexual violence, and forced displacement were all extremely prevalent thousands were killed over the course of nearly four years.
Nationalism has been a potent force for change since the development of human civilization. However, opinion about the extent to which nationalism may be appropriately pursued is highly diverse, a factor that has led to immense tragedy and suffering in countless regions worldwide. While it is both appropriate and sometimes encouraged to take pride in being part of a nation, it is of the utmost importance that it is done without harming or subjugating people of another. Uniting a people by force and potentially eliminating or destroying those who may oppose it or not belong to it is unacceptable ethically, morally, and socially.
The Bosnian genocide was a war that started in 1992 and ended in 1995. The purpose of learning this genocide is that we can be aware of what an genocide is considering that there are many different definitions of genocide. This was an example of genocide that we can learn from and know what genocide is so we can stop genocide from occurring in the future because we are the next generation of the
The Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide had many similarities and differences in their course of events. Unfortunately, genocides like the Jewish Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide still continue to happen today. Jews were constantly persecuted before the Holocaust because they were deemed racially inferior. During the 1930’s, the Nazis sent thousands of Jews to concentration camps. Hitler wanted to wipe out all the European Jews in a plan called The “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem” (World History).
Following the massacre of over 1,500 Jews in Jozefow, the 101st Police Battalion participated in the cleansing of the ghettos, the deportation of 42,000 victims to the gas chambers of Treblinka, the "Jew Hunt" and the gunning down of over 38,000 Jews
As a conclusion, Rwanda and Bosnia genocide was about ethnic conflicts for gaining power or for land, mass murders, area destructions, civilians deaths, hiding evidence and many more. Also genocide has different stages to categories its specification such as classification, symbolisms, discrimination, dehumanization, extermination, preparation and many more. As the end of genocide there were deaths of some ethnic groups too which are hardly found or known as minority groups. We should further inspire and encourage future world people to prevent such a tragedy like the Rwanda and Bosnia and other genocide conflict from ever happening again.
Genocide, the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. From 1992-1995 that was happening in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, conflict between the three main ethnic groups, the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, resulted in genocide committed by the Serbs against the Muslims in Bosnia.
Every day, people are denied basic necessary human rights. One well known event that striped millions of these rights was the Holocaust, recounted in Elie Wiesel’s memoir, Night. As a result of the atrocities that occur all around the world, organizations have published declarations such as the United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights. It is vital that the entitlement to all rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind, freedom of thought and religion, and the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being of themselves be guaranteed to everyone, as these three rights are crucial to the survival of all people and their identity.
The Holocaust took a great toll on many lives in one way or another, one in particular being Vladek
Yugoslavia was fabricated in the year of 1918. Located near the country of Italy, the territory is now broken up into six independent countries. The nation started to fall apart in the late 1980 's, following the World War II victory for the Allies. While some countries can benefit from diversity, there was just too much for Yugoslavia to survive. Yugoslavia as a nation failed because of too much autonomy between the six nations that came to be, too many different cultures in one nation, and simply a subjugation of overflowing diversity.
“Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don’t like as those we do”, said Trevor Phillips, a British writer, broadcaster and former politician. Since the day of human civilization and human rights are found. No one can argue against the idea that God created us equal, but this idea have been well understood and known after the appearance of many associations that fight for human rights as The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that showed up in 1948. Human rights are those rights that every person, without exceptions, is born with. They are the most important human basic needs because no one can live a decent appropriate life without having those rights as a human. In fact, these rights
The intentional murder of an enormous group of people is near unthinkable in today’s society. In the first half of the twentieth century, however, numerous authoritarian regimes committed genocide to undesirables or others considered to be a threat. Two distinct and memorably horrific genocides were the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany and the Holodomor by the Soviet Union. In the Holocaust, The Nazis attempted to eradicate all European Jews after Adolf Hitler blamed them for Germany’s hardship in recent years. During the Holodomor, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union attempted to destroy any sense of Ukrainian nationalism by intentionally starving and murdering Ukrainian people. The two atrocities can be thoroughly compared and contrasted through the eight stages of genocide. The Holocaust and Holodomor shared many minor and distinct similarities under each stage of genocide, but were mainly similar to the methods of organization, preparation, and extermination, and mainly differed
Introduction Human rights are fundamental rights and freedoms that all people are entitled to regardless of nationality, gender, national or ethnic origin, religion, language, or other status. And these human rights violations are in some countries like Central African Republic, Syria, USA, Ireland, and etcetera. One example is Syria, where the people afraid live here. Therefore, article 3 of the Universal Human Rights Act is violated in Syria. This essay seeks to consider the human rights violations in Syria.
On December 10th in 1948, the general assembly adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration, although not legally binding, created “a common standard of achievement of all people and all nations…to promote respect for those rights and freedoms” (Goodhart, 379). However, many cultures assert that the human rights policies outlined in the declaration undermine cultural beliefs and practices. This assertion makes the search for universal human rights very difficult to achieve. I would like to focus on articles 3, 14 and 25 to address how these articles could be modified to incorporate cultural differences, without completely undermining the search for human rights practices.
The doctrine of human rights were created to protect every single human regardless of race, gender, sex, nationality, sexual orientation and other differences. It is based on human dignity and the belief that no one has the right to take this away from another human being. The doctrine states that every ‘man’ has inalienable rights of equality, but is this true? Are human rights universal? Whether human rights are universal has been debated for decades. There have been individuals and even countries that oppose the idea that human rights are for everybody. This argument shall be investigated in this essay, by: exploring definitions and history on human rights, debating on whether it is universal while providing examples and background information while supporting my hypothesis that human rights should be based on particular cultural values and finally drawing a conclusion.
While there is no clear definition for ‘human rights’, it is possible to describe them as basic moral and legal rights that all people have, simply in virtue of their humanity. Although human rights are traditionally associated with being civil and political rights, they also include socioeconomic rights. Focusing on a political conception of human rights, it is important to note that not every question of social justice is a human rights issue. Despite UN declarations, many do not consider poverty a violation of human rights. Severe poverty, traditionally defined in terms of low income, concerns insecurity caused by a lack of resources. By the UN dividing its human rights law into two separate treaties, countries are able to endorse civil