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Role Of Genocide: The Outcomes Of Colonialism And Imperialism In Africa

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The First genocide of the 20th century was one of many outcomes of colonialism and imperialism in Africa. The mass genocide occurred/begun in 1904, and ended in 1909 as a result of many uprisings and rebellions against the German powers, who later set up concentration camps to imprison the Herero peoples, and later on to imprison the Naama people, as they had caused an uprising after the initial capture and enslavement of the Herero people who had fallen under German power. During this time there were innumerable massacres committed by the Germans as a way to “Ethnically Cleanse” the area. These massacres took place in modern day Namibia, which was formally a German colony that had been colonized during the Scramble for Africa. In these camps, around 65,000 Herero people and 10,500 Nama were killed. Some ways of death included forced labour, rape and torture inflicted by the guards. …show more content…

This camp was specifically designed and made to kill people. Anybody who was sent to Shark Island knew they were going to die. The guards knew, the prisoners knew and everybody else knew. Shark island, in Nazi terms, is considered a Death Camp. Shark island is often compared to Auschwitz to historians, as they achieved the same thing, just on a different scale. Shark island was responsible for the bulk of the people killed in this mass ethnic genocide. Shark island is now a tourist spot, and all of the remains of the genocide have been removed. However, just over a century later, in 2009/2010, a mass grave was uncovered and the discovery of skull trade (a trade done between Germany and Britain. This trade was a trade in which a German officer would offer a Brit a skull in exchange for money. These skulls were put in museums.) was

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In chapter 5 of Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History, the author A. D. Moses uses gathered contributions from many Australian historians in this specific chapter this historian is the influential henry Reynolds, who argues the idea that genocide did exist in Tasmania. This chapter argues the idea that genocide was present in Tasmania and briefly discusses why Tasmania was seen as the perfect place for the thousands of prisoners that were brought over by the British colony. The chapter suggests that while Tasmania is and was an island in the middle of nowhere it was the perfect opportunity for such things (genocide) to occur, just like the Jews and the Nazi’s, a similar occurrence

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