Crimes Against Humanity Paper

Crimes against Humanity Paper

War is something that has ravaged the world for centuries. It is a fight for power and land that has very tragic outcomes of death. It can be dated back to the infamous wars of the Roman Empire. It ravaged Europe with wars between kingdoms. The most tragic of all I feel is World War II. The Nazi party gained control and ravaged Europe for power. The most tragic part was it's inhumane killing of non-agrarian people, around the number of six million. This is not the only time when crimes against humanity occurred. There are plenty of other through out history.

A crime against humanity is a term in international law that refers to acts of murderous persecution against a body of people, as being the criminal offence above all others. The genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, is considered to be a major crime against humanity. With the same ideas of the Nazi party, it was the extermination of over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus people by the Hutus extremist known as Interahamwe. The reason this was such a major crime is due to the fact of some many murders in the short period of 100 days. Also noted was the fact that there was no intervention by the United Nations or any other European country. It was not until the Tutsis rebel uprising that this was stopped. Another crime against humanity and probably one of the longest in history was in our own country by the oppression of the Native Americans which lasted from 1776 to 1990. Native Americans were slaughtered in many of the Indian wars, especially of the women and children, which would be murdered by Americans in their sleep. Their villages were ravaged and burned to the ground. The cause of all of this was the fact that the Indians controlled lands that the American government wanted, they were greedy. Native Americans were also forced to move from their lands, such as the Trail of Tears, where they were moved from southern America, and relocated in the mid-west on reservations. Many of them died though on the way, due to harsh conditions.

The Trials at Nuremberg were trials against many political figures, judges and doctors of Germany after World War II. They were being convicted of knowingly going along with the Nazi party with the extermination and sterilization of Jews, Gypsies and mentally retarded. Many were tried and either sentenced to death by hanging or