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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The UN member states begin setting up a _____________ International Criminal Court (ICC).
(a) Permanent.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Temporary.
(d) Bi-annual.

2. Before Pol Pot dies in 1998, whom does he claim the deaths in Cambodia are the responsibility of?
(a) The Laotians.
(b) The Vietnamese.
(c) The Burmese.
(d) The Americans.

3. In what year does the Genocide Convention Implementation Act become law?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1989.

4. The Serb crackdown in Kosovo is endangering a fragile peace in Bosnia on which the U.S. had already spent more than:
(a) $100 billion.
(b) $10 billion.
(c) $1 trillion.
(d) $10 million.

5. Who is Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire?
(a) Canada's Secretary of State.
(b) Commander of Rwanda's UN mission.
(c) Canada's ambassador to Rwanda.
(d) Commander of Canada's peacekeeping forces in Rwanda.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1994, the United States set aside half a million dollars to collect information and evidence on which genocide?

2. From whom does the most detailed evidence of the atrocities come?

3. Although Milosevic is initially indicted only for crimes against humanity, the indictment is broadened to include genocide in:

4. Policymakers in favor of ratification argue not only for the moral imperatives but also that non-ratification is:

5. In 1990, after the U.S. Senate cuts off Iraq's financial assistance and credit line, what happened?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

2. Within hours of President Habyarimana's death, whom did armed Hutus begin targeting?

3. After the Hutu government began eliminating the Tutsi, what did the U.S. focus on instead of intervening to stop the genocide?

4. What consequence did the State Department threaten against the Serbian soldiers?

5. Although President Reagan stated that he would endorse the genocide convention, what first step was he, as well as his administration, seemingly reluctant to take?

6. What would have been the consequences of including, within the U.S. version of the genocide treaty, a restriction on its jurisdiction in cases where the U.S. might be called?

7. What was the influence of the creation of the 1993 International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia upon the Rwandan genocide?

8. Why was President Reagan's 1985 visit to Germany's Bitburg Cemetery to lay a wreath so controversial?

9. What was the human and geographic toll of the Serbs' genocide against the Bosnians, in terms of people killed, people displaced, and partitioning of Bosnian territory?

10. From 1987-1988, Hussein's military killed how many Kurds as it destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages?

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