The Pros And Cons Of Genocide

Genocides are very tragic events where a certain group of people is being discriminated, segregated, displaced, and even killed for who they are or what they believe in, by a superior group. One of the most infamous ones is the Holocaust. Since that was a while ago, not too many people know that genocide is still happening. In the beginning of the 21st century, a new act of extermination came into play and still continues today. ¨The killings began in 2003, as the first genocide of the 21st century. Unrest and violence persist today.¨(Mitchell Hamline School Of Law) This is powerful because this shows that it has already been a decade, and this is still going on, meaning it will not stop on its own. The U.N. should focus primarily on the genocide
There is no way anyone could deny that what is happening here definitely counts as a genocide. The Sudanese government, who are Arab Muslim, are going against the people in Darfur, who are Black Muslim. What the government, the Arab Muslims, are doing, is violating all human rights! They are ¨...burning villages, looting economic resources, polluting water sources, and murdering, raping, and torturing civilians.¨ (Mitchell Hamline School Of Law) This shows that the government has no mercy for the Darfurians, and will attempt to torture them as much as possible. Why is this still going on? The population might think the Holocaust was the last massacre, but it was not. This genocide in Darfur is happening, and it is the job; the responsibility of the U.N. to stop it.¨In September 2004, President George Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared what was happening in Darfur to be genocide.¨ (Jewish World Watch) This quote shows that what is happening is definitely genocide, and because of that, the U.N. should definitely be more involved. This was the first mass killing of the 21st century, and it is still going on. What does this say about our U.N.? Some people might argue that the number of deaths in the Darfurian is not nearly as high as the number of deaths in other big ethnic cleansings, like the Holocaust. ¨...the Darfur genocide has caused the deaths of approximately 400,000 Darfuris, and displaced more than three million people.¨ (Jewish World Watch) Compared to the Holocaust, which had more than 6 million people die, this is small. Holocaust Encyclopedia states that the number of deaths for ¨Jews: up to 6 million.¨ The reason the Holocaust took too many lives was because the society allowed the killings to continue. Another example of this happening was in Rwanda. Samantha Power exclaims that ¨As the terror in Rwanda had unfolded, Clinton had shown virtually no interest in stopping the genocide,¨ This shows that the government,