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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which ethnic group is responsible for the aggression against minorities after Yugoslavia's collapse?

2. When Milosevic arrives at the War Crimes Tribunal, he becomes the _______ Yugoslav war crimes suspect behind UN bars.

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

4. Whom does Iraq's president appoint as secretary-general of the Northern Bureau?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the U.S. turn a blind eye to Iraqi brutality against the Kurds?

2. In the middle of July 1995, what did journalists stationed in the Balkan region begin reporting?

3. Why did Rwanda actually vote against setting up its war crimes tribunal?

4. What have the Kurds demanded since 1922?

5. When Kurdish leaders decided to side with Iran in the Iraq-Iran war, what was the reaction of the Iraqi military?

6. 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?

7. Four months after the war began in Bosnia, Helsinki Watch released a report on the situation. What details did the report contain?

8. 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?

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

10. What has turned out to be the drawback to not necessarily holding genocide proceedings in the victimized country?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and explain the nature and structure of the joint Hutu/Tutsi government that was the result of the 1993 Arusha Accords that ended Rwanda's first civil war.

Essay Topic 2

Using the text as backup, investigate why, during the postwar period, the Holocaust was rarely discussed in general American society and glossed over in, if not omitted entirely from, books and films of the period. In particular, focus on the role American Jews had in encouraging this approach toward the Nazi atrocities against their people and why they did so.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the Rwandan and Yugoslavian war crimes courts. Use the text to support your statements.

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