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These headlines are similar in that each refers to the issue of
2 The policy in South Africa to limit freedoms was?
3 The action which resulted from student protests in China in 1989 was?
4 One situation not yet resolved by the worlds' nations is?
5 A genocide that killed at least 500,000 people was perpetrated [carried out] in the spring of 1994 in the small central African country of Rwanda. Thousands more were raped, tortured and beaten. The international community failed to stop the crimes. Rwanda was simply too far away and did not rate highly in the "national interest" calculation of any of the states capable of intervening. The UN Security Council failed to reinforce the small and lightly armed UN blue helmets already in Rwanda; they acted bravely but their restricted mandate meant they could do little to stop the killing. Months after the genocide ended, the UN Security Council created an international criminal tribunal to prosecute those responsible. The UN, building on the recently established International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, decided that the genocide in Rwanda required a similar effort to insure prosecution for the most serious crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity. National prosecutions seemed impossible since the Rwandese justice system had been destroyed.
What was one action taken to address the human rights violations in Rwanda?
6 What role does the Security Council have in the United Nations?
7 A contemporary genocide to Rwanda was?
8 Another term for genocide is?
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From the middle of 1975 to the end of 1978, between one million and three million Cambodians, out of a population of about seven million, died at the hands of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Former government employees, army personnel, and "intellectuals" were executed in the hundreds of thousands. Others were killed by disease, exhaustion, and malnutrition during forced urban evacuations, migrations, and compulsory labor. Families were broken apart and communal living established; men and women were compelled to marry partners selected by the state. Education and religious practices were proscribed [forbidden].
The leader of Cambodia during the period above was?
10 The type of government associated with the ruler above was?
11 The type of government was based upon the social class known as?
12 The United Nations agreement to prevent genocide is called?
13 "The important lesson wasn't so much the Nazis' extraordinary evil but that it could happen with the participation of so many, the indifference of many more, that humanity has no guarantees against its vicious streaks except its own conscience, for which each individual is responsible . . . the effort for decency and justice must go on every day, everywhere."
The event referred to in this passage by Flora Lewis was?
14 The Nazis restricted Jews beginning in 1935 with the?
15 The Nazis rounded up Jews into areas in cities known as?
