Genocide Trials of the 20^th Century
 
 
                                                                                                           Bosnia
 
 
 

                                                                          Eichmann
                            Nuremberg                                                  Rwanda
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                  1940s             1950s            1960s             1970s             1980s              1990s
 

Raphael Lemkin coined the term Genocide to signify the destruction of a nation or of an entire ethnic group with the existance of a coordinated plan aimed at the total anihlation of an entire group of people.  There have been at least three, though many scholars say as many as seven, genocides in the Twentieth Century, the most infamous of which is the Halocaust.   Following the Second World War and in response to Nazi activities during the war, the international community deemed it nessesary to give those responsible for Genocide their due.¹  The famous Nuremberg Trials thus insued.  Three such Genocide Tribunals have been occured since:  the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, the Bosnian trials in 1996, and the Rwandan trials in 1998.    Each trial has been summarized and conclusions have been formed based on an anaylsis of all four trials.   Nuremberg   |  Eichmann  |  Rwanda  |  Bosnia   |  Conclusion  |   Notes Back to the House the West Built

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