Mass Murder: The Story of Past & Recent Genocide

Genocide

Can you imagine the United States of America without police officers and our Army is attempting to kill off everyone who does not fit a certain criteria.  We are all at risk of death and there is nowhere to go or run to for help.  There are no movies, restaurants, television, or any form of outside entertainment because everyone is afraid of their lives being taken at any time.  All we can do is pray and hope for another country to step in and offer support.  Genocide is just the instance that people cannot imagine them in.  Genocide has proved to be extremely dangerous and is considered a worldly tragedy.  The widespread deaths that genocide causes amazes me that a country would allow their government, or lack of, to murder men, women, and children. 

Rwanda is a third world country who experienced one of the worst genocides in history in 1994.  A minimum count of 800,000 to a million people were killed during the genocide and hundreds of thousands more were turned into slaves.  At least twenty percent of the entire population was killed before the RPF1 and France intervened.  These killings were triggered by the assassination of Habyarimana, the Rwandan President whose airplane was shot down by the Hutu army.

RPF- Rwandan Patriotic Front, a Rwandan governmental army.

A more recent genocide is one that occurred in Darfur, Sudan after the SLA2 and JEM3 took arms accusing the government of oppressing the blacks in favor of the Arabs.  There were mass killings and rapes of the3 tribal groups within the Darfurian people until 2006 when a peace treaty was signed.  The genocide is known to be based on their ethnicity and different beliefs.  July of 2008 the President of Sudan was charged with 10 different crimes of war.  Three included crimes of genocide, five for crimes against humanity, and two of murder in international court.

The largest genocide was the Holocaust that was responsible for millions European Jews during World War 2.  The Holocaust was a governed extermination by the Nazi under Adolph Hitler and Germany’s allies.  The death count varies depending on who is included.  Not only were Jews killed, but Catholics, homosexuals, Jehovah witness, amongst others. 

The lucky victims of genocide are people who could be used for work, which turns them into slaves.  Other victims who are considered lucky are children who are taken and brainwashed into killers.  Young children were turned into members of the Hutu militia, by teaching them hate and how to use machine guns at an early age.  They were sent out to do the Hutu militias dirty work murdering unarmed people.  Children were of great asset for the Hutu militia because the opposing militia would hesitate to shoot a child usually resulting in the children successfully murdering the opposition.

SLA- Sudan Liberation Army

JEM- Justice Equality Movement is a movement in Darfur used to fight oppression that the blacks felt during the conflict.

Over the past centuries, genocide has been used to control people in attempt show that they are inferior.  They are inferior when it comes to the militia being unable to compete.  Thus, causing a group of people being slaughtered and just another statistic victim of genocide.  Genocide has proved to be the worst world tragedy to ever occur during anyone’s lifetime.