Is Colonialism a Form of Genocide?
Is Colonialism a Form of Genocide?
In this paper, Im going to look at what is genocide? Does it only occur in such situations as the Holocaust, the genocides in Darfur, Turkey, Cambodia, Tibet, & Bosnia, the disappearances in Argentina & Chile, the death squad killings in El Salvador, Stalins purges, the killing of the Tutsi in Rwanda. Has there been a form of genocide in our own backyard? In this journal Im going to explain that in fact Canada has had its own stint in genocide that involves Aboriginal people with the Church and residential schools.
Genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.
Colonialism 1): the quality or state as being colonial 2): something characteristic of a colony 3) a: a control by one power over a dependent
area or people b): a policy advocating or based on such control.
To make adequate sense of the idea of destruction in genocide, we need to grasp that it involves three stages:
The identification of a social group as an enemy in an essentially military (rather than merely political, economic or cultural) sense i.e as a group against which it is justified to use physical violence in a systematic way.
The intention to destroy the real or imputed power