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Nigeria is reallya troubled country. ,Lord Have Mercy...

odogwu9:
Nigeria is reallya troubled country. ,Lord Have Mercy...

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odogwu9:
Nigeria is reallya troubled country. ,Lord Have Mercy...

Where is Yakubu Gowon when you need him to come and preach and pray?

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One Nigeria?

where is gowon and his one nigeria!

@OP, you do not need viewers' discretion.
This is a trend in your country and you are fortunate to be having a consoler instead of a President

odogwu9:
Nigeria is reallya troubled country. ,Lord Have Mercy...

THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE

Genocide is a process that develops in ten stages that are predictable but not

inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The process is not

linear. Stages may occur simultaneously. Logically, later stages must be preceded by

earlier stages. But all stages continue to operate throughout the process.

1. CLASSIFICATION: All cultures have categories to distinguish people into

“us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality: German and Jew, Hutu and

Tutsi. Bipolar societies that lack mixed categories, such as Rwanda and Burundi, are

the most likely to have genocide. The main preventive measure at this early stage is

to develop universalistic institutions that transcend ethnic or racial divisions,

that actively promote tolerance and understanding, and that promote classifications

that transcend the divisions. The Catholic church could have played this role in

Rwanda, had it not been riven by the same ethnic cleavages as Rwandan society.

Promotion of a common language in countries like Tanzania has also promoted

transcendent national identity. This search for common ground is vital to early

prevention of genocide.

2. SYMBOLIZATION: We give names or other symbols to the classifications. We

name people “Jews” or “Gypsies”, or distinguish them by colors or dress; and apply

the symbols to members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universally

human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to dehumanization.

When combined with hatred, symbols may be forced upon unwilling members of pariah

groups: the yellow star for Jews under Nazi rule, the blue scarf for people from the

Eastern Zone in Khmer Rouge Cambodia. To combat symbolization, hate symbols can be

legally forbidden (swastikas) as can hate speech. Group marking like gang clothing or

tribal scarring can be outlawed, as well. The problem is that legal limitations will

fail if unsupported by popular cultural enforcement. Though Hutu and Tutsi were

forbidden words in Burundi until the 1980’s, code words replaced them. If widely

supported, however, denial of symbolization can be powerful, as it was in Bulgaria,

where the government refused to supply enough yellow badges and at least eighty

percent of Jews did not wear them, depriving the yellow star of its significance as a

Nazi symbol for Jews.

3. DISCRIMINATION: A dominant group uses law, custom, and political power to

deny the rights of other groups. The powerless group may not be accorded full civil

rights or even citizenship. Examples include the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 in Nazi

Germany, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, and prohibited their

employment by the government and by universities. Denial of citizenship to the

Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma is another example. Prevention against

discrimination means full political empowerment and citizenship rights for all groups

in a society. Discrimination on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, race or

religion should be outlawed. Individuals should have the right to sue the state,

corporations, and other individuals if their rights are violated.

4. DEHUMANIZATION: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members

of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes

the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print

and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group. In combating this

dehumanization, incitement to genocide should not be confused with protected speech.

Genocidal societies lack constitutional protection for countervailing speech, and

should be treated differently than democracies. Local and international leaders

should condemn the use of hate speech and make it culturally unacceptable. Leaders

who incite genocide should be banned from international travel and have their foreign

finances frozen. Hate radio stations should be shut down, and hate propaganda banned.

Hate crimes and atrocities should be promptly punished.

5. ORGANIZATION: Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, often

using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility (the supporter of APC in

Darfur.) Sometimes organization is informal (Hindu mobs led by local RSS militants)

or decentralized (terrorist groups.) Special army units or militias are often trained

and armed. Plans are made for genocidal killings. To combat this stage, membership in

these militias should be outlawed. Their leaders should be denied visas for foreign

travel. The U.N. should impose arms embargoes on governments and citizens of

countries involved in genocidal massacres, and create commissions to investigate

violations, as was done in post-genocide Rwanda.

6. POLARIZATION: Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast

polarizing propaganda. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction. Extremist

terrorism targets moderates, intimidating and silencing the center. Moderates from

the perpetrators’ own group are most able to stop genocide, so are the first to be

arrested and killed. Prevention may mean security protection for moderate leaders or

assistance to human rights groups. Assets of extremists may be seized, and visas for

international travel denied to them. Coups d’état by extremists should be opposed by

international sanctions.

7. PREPARATION: National or perpetrator group leaders plan the “Final

Solution” to the Jewish, Armenian, Tutsi or other targeted group “question.” They

often use euphemisms to cloak their intentions, such as referring to their goals as

“ethnic cleansing,” “purification,” or “counter-terrorism.” They build armies, buy

weapons and train their troops and militias. They indoctrinate the populace with

fear of the victim group. Leaders often claim that “if we don’t kill them, they will

kill us.” Prevention of preparation may include arms embargos and commissions to

enforce them. It should include prosecution of incitement and conspiracy to commit

genocide, both crimes under Article 3 of the Genocide Convention.

8. PERSECUTION: Victims are identified and separated out because of their

ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. In state sponsored genocide,

members of victim groups may be forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is

often expropriated. Sometimes they are even segregated into ghettoes, deported into

concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved. Genocidal

massacres begin. They are acts of genocide because they intentionally destroy part

of a group. At this stage, a Genocide Emergency must be declared. If the political

will of the great powers, regional alliances, or the U.N. Security Council can be

mobilized, armed international intervention should be prepared, or heavy assistance

provided to the victim group to prepare for its self-defense. Humanitarian assistance

should be organized by the U.N. and private relief groups for the inevitable tide of

refugees to come.

9. EXTERMINATION begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called

“genocide.” It is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe their

victims to be fully human. When it is sponsored by the state, the armed forces often

work with militias to do the killing. Sometimes the genocide results in revenge

killings by groups against each other, creating the downward whirlpool-like cycle of

bilateral genocide (as in Burundi). At this stage, only rapid and overwhelming armed

intervention can stop genocide. Real safe areas or refugee escape corridors should be

established with heavily armed international protection. (An unsafe “safe” area is

worse than none at all.) The U.N. Standing High Readiness Brigade, EU Rapid Response

Force, or regional forces -- should be authorized to act by the U.N. Security Council

if the genocide is small. For larger interventions, a multilateral force authorized

by the U.N. should intervene. If the U.N. is paralyzed, regional alliances must act.

It is time to recognize that the international responsibility to protect transcends

the narrow interests of individual nation states. If strong nations will not provide

troops to intervene directly, they should provide the airlift, equipment, and

financial means necessary for regional states to intervene.

10. DENIAL is the final stage that lasts throughout and always follows a

genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. The

perpetrators of genocide dig up the mass graves, burn the bodies, try to cover up the

evidence and intimidate the witnesses. They deny that they committed any crimes, and

often blame what happened on the victims. They block investigations of the crimes,

and continue to govern until driven from power by force, when they flee into exile.

There they remain with impunity, like Pol Pot or Idi Amin, unless they are captured

and a tribunal is established to try them. The response to denial is punishment by an

international tribunal or national courts. There the evidence can be heard, and the

perpetrators punished. Tribunals like the Yugoslav or Rwanda Tribunals, or an

international tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or an International

Criminal Court may not deter the worst genocidal killers. But with the political will

to arrest and prosecute them, some may be brought to justice.

Source http://genocidewatch.org/genocide/tenstagesofgenocide.html

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