I think that the most important thing that I learned during this project was that these events happened. Most of the genocides that we learned about I had never heard of before. I think that students should learn about previous genocides because it is important to know what happened, in case another genocide was to happen again, people would be able to possibly recognize certain stages of the genocide. If people recognize the earlier stages of a genocide it can be easier to be able to prevent the next stages from happening.
One connection that I was able to make was that some people were placed in camps. During the stages of a genocide there is a stage where people get put into camps, it is during the middle stages of a genocide. During two my peer’s presentations it was brought up that during some genocides people were put into camps, these genocides were the Ugandan and the Bosnian genocide. People from these genocides were put into camps. I think that people were sent to camps because it was a way to show the people who were sent to these camps that they didn’t matter.
A second connection that I made was that some countries, governments, and people denied that some genocides happened. While watching one of my peer’s presentations on the Ukrainian genocide, I noticed that they mentioned that the Soviet Union denied that the genocide happened. I made a connection with the genocide that my partner and I researched, the Armenian genocide. My partner and I were able to find out that the Turkish Government did not admit that the genocide happened. I don’t know why some countries, governments, and people choose not to admit that these events happened. I wonder why they choose not to admit to what previously happened?
