Genocide

Canada's Peace-Keepers

What do peace-keepers do?

 

Canada's Peacekeeping Mission to Haiti

Canada's Peacekeeping Mission to Kandahar, Afghanistan

Genocide:

Any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part: 

• a national group, 
• an ethnical group, 
• a racial group, or 
• a religious group 

by:

• killing members of the group, 
• causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, 
• deliberately inflicting on members of 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.

Who is Romeo Dallaire?

What happened in Rwanda?

We will be watching the film Shake Hands With The Devil and looking at one man's fight to stop a genocide and how the United Nations fail both him and the people of Rwanda.

Questions:

1. Who is Romeo Dallaire?
2. What were the root causes of the problems in Rwanda?
3. Briefly, what happened?
4. What efforts did Romeo Dallaire make to end the violence?
5. How did the UN help or hinder his efforts?

Read in Global Voices, pp.25-27.  Respond to the questions in your book by writing in your journal.  Feel free to write about anything else to do with Romeo Dallaire, Rwanda, or genocide as well.