Can the World Resolve the Problem of Genocide?
Is it possible for the World to fully stop what we consider genocide? In accordance with Document I: Ethnic cleansing was an attempt to instill fear and devastation in Bosnia, but complete extermination such as genocide was not the intention. I think it would be difficult for us to control the crimes being committed by a certain ethnic group of people against another. We do not have enough resources to oversee what everyone is doing at all times. Therefore, it is not possible for the World to solve the problem of genocide. Genocide is too widespread to be easily shut down. For instance, as shown in Document K: in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries there were twenty one instances of genocidal acts, the majority of which were killed by government. One of the largest amounts of slayings was carried out by the Nazi government between 1939-1945 with a total of 12,000,000 killed, but there were other massive killings all over the World. …show more content…
Document A: states that “the concept of genocide thus is based upon existing and deeply felt moral concepts”. If it is based on a moral concept, how can you consider it a crime? Document B states that “in 1948, the fledgling UN General Assembly adopted an international Convention on the Prevention and punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which came into force in 1951”. This also defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ethnic, racial or religious group”. If it takes four decades to define a crime as genocide, is it even possible to stop it from happening
Is it possible for the World to fully stop what we consider genocide? In accordance with Document I: Ethnic cleansing was an attempt to instill fear and devastation in Bosnia, but complete extermination such as genocide was not the intention. I think it would be difficult for us to control the crimes being committed by a certain ethnic group of people against another. We do not have enough resources to oversee what everyone is doing at all times. Therefore, it is not possible for the World to solve the problem of genocide. Genocide is too widespread to be easily shut down. For instance, as shown in Document K: in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries there were twenty one instances of genocidal acts, the majority of which were killed by government. One of the largest amounts of slayings was carried out by the Nazi government between 1939-1945 with a total of 12,000,000 killed, but there were other massive killings all over the World. …show more content…
Document A: states that “the concept of genocide thus is based upon existing and deeply felt moral concepts”. If it is based on a moral concept, how can you consider it a crime? Document B states that “in 1948, the fledgling UN General Assembly adopted an international Convention on the Prevention and punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which came into force in 1951”. This also defines genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ethnic, racial or religious group”. If it takes four decades to define a crime as genocide, is it even possible to stop it from happening