Genocide In The World: A Comparative Analysis

For the past centuries, the world has endured mass human extinctions from the well-known 1942 holocaust to the under recognized Rwanda genocide. Genocide is the violent acts and killings of a specific group with the intent of eradicating their existence. According to the Center on Law and globalization, genocides occur for these reasons: to eliminate a real or potential threat, to spread terror among enemies, to acquire economic wealth, or to implement a belief or ideology. When a group feels as if their existence is threatened by another group, the only solution to their problem is genocide of the opposing group. Genocide may also aid a group to carry out systematic efforts in destroying enemies which will send out warning to other potential
Eric Braham writes for Beyond Intractability which is an online encyclopedia written by over 400 distinguished scholars and practitioners from across the globe. These writers are encouraged to include their own personal opinions in their case studies which may result in bias. Braham explains that one of the ways genocides impacts the world is through “human cost.” Many lives are lost and because of technology, more advanced weapons are produced are better and faster ways, making it easier to kill large numbers of people. These civil conflicts not only take lives away, but also displace millions from their homes which “often produces refugees” (Braham). These refugees end up any and everywhere around the world. My parents are actually from Africa and have refugee friends from Rwanda and Burundi who first escaped to a nearby country and then to the United States. The wife was from the Hutus tribe and had lost both of her parents and a brother and sister. Her brother’s body was never discovered but he was presumed dead a couple of months after she left home. Now that she and her husband are settled in the United States, she has acquired an engineer job and her husband a professor, which indeed impacts the United States and its