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    1. Classification - Victims are identified and categorized, often through identification cards or markings on homes. Lists of victims are then drawn up. 2. Symbolization - Victims are forced to wear symbols to mark their identity, such as yellow stars for Jews in Nazi Germany. 3. Dehumanization - Victims are portrayed as less than human to make their extermination seem acceptable. Their property is often expropriated as well.

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    1. Classification - Victims are identified and categorized, often through identification cards or markings on homes. Lists of victims are then drawn up. 2. Symbolization - Victims are forced to wear symbols to mark their identity, such as yellow stars for Jews in Nazi Germany. 3. Dehumanization - Victims are portrayed as less than human to make their extermination seem acceptable. Their property is often expropriated as well.

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    1. Classification - Victims are identified and categorized, often through identification cards or markings on homes. Lists of victims are then drawn up. 2. Symbolization - Victims are forced to wear symbols to mark their identity, such as yellow stars for Jews in Nazi Germany. 3. Dehumanization - Victims are portrayed as less than human to make their extermination seem acceptable. Their property is often expropriated as well.

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    - Coup d’etat by extremists should be immediately opposed by targeted international

    sanctions on their leaders.

    Preparation:
    - Genocide includes identification, people were forced to to carry ID cards identifying their
    ethnic or religious group
    - Lists of victims were drawn up, houses were marked and maps are made
    - In Germany, the identification of jews, defined by law, was performed methodical
    bureaucracy
    - Preparation also includes expropriation of the property of the victims.
    - It may include concentration: herding of the victims into churches, ghettos and stadiums
    - In an extreme form, it includes construction of extermination camps, as in Nazi ruled
    Europe or conversion of existing buildings, like temples and schools in Cambodia
    - Transportation of the victims to these killings centres is then organised and
    bureaucratised.
    - Identification of victims speeds up genocide—E.g. ID cards or forced to wear yellow
    stars. → Killing is therefore made efficient.
    - As soon as symbolic markers are imposed, a genocide watch should be declared and
    diplomatic pressure should demand their abolition and impose sanctions.
    - When death lists are drawn up, the international community should recognise that
    genocide is imminent, and mobilize for armed intervention.
    - Those identified should be given asylum and assistance.

    Extermination:
    - This is the seventh step, the final solution.
    - It is considered extermination rather than murder, becuase the victims are not
    considered human
    - Targeted members of alien groups are killed, often including children
    - Due to them not being considered human, their bodies are mutilated, buried in mass
    graves or burnt like garbage
    - Can only be stopped by force. Armed intervention must be rapid and overwhelming.
    - Safe areas should be established with real military protection.
    - The UN does not have a standing army, the strongest member states should therefore
    shoulder this responsibility in conjunction with other UN members.

    Denial:
    - Every genocide is followed by denial.
    - The mass graves are dug up and hidden.
    - Historical records are burned or closed to historians
    - During genocides, thos commiting the crimes dismiss reports as propoganda
    - Deniers are called ‘revisionists’
    - Others deny through subtle means by characterising the reports as “unconfirmed” or
    “alleged” because they don't come from officially approved sources; by minimising the
    number killed etc.
    - Civil war and genocides are not mutually exclusive
    - Most genocides occur during war
    - Best overcome by public trials and truth commissions.
    - Followed by years of education about the facts of the genocide, particularly for the
    children of the group or nation that committed the crime.
    - Forgetting is the negative force that results in future genocides,
    - Impunity [getting away with murder] is the weakest link in the chains that restrain
    genocide.

    Prevention:
    - A full strategy for preventing genocide should include attack on each of genocide;s
    operational processes.

    Describe the nature of genocide concerning Stanton's eight stages

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