How Does Genocide Happen Today

Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Genocide happened in the past, and is still happening today. Although it seems like the worst ones happened in the past it can still happen today. The U.N was brought together as explained for that reason which is show in a cartoon. In the cartoon, one of the boxes shows the logo of the U.N saying how any conflicts are unacceptable. In the other picture it shows the U.N saying how they’re going to stop genocides. In that same cartoon it depicts other nations as tombstones surrounding the U.N on skulls. Each tombstone represents a country that a genocide happened in, just as the genocides are pilling up the U.N is just standing there and saying how they must prevent any conflicts. But we also see that at least their intentions were to stop conflicts as it says in the cartoon, “Since 24 Oct 1945 the U.N was formed with the intention of preventing genocide and total global conflict.” Although they are being surrounded by conflicts all around the world at least they had good intentions. As George Clooney once said “In the time that we're here today, …show more content…
Some of them can have affects like causing people to immigrate. This was good because it let people leave a dangerous place and go to if not safe but a better place. Despite people immigrating their were also a lot of people dying. A difference between the two is that one denies it while the other doesn’t. It is horrible to commit mass murder but to deny it is just as bad. In Germany it is illegal to deny that the Holocaust happened and they even commemorate it. While in Darfur their government denies that anything even happened. George Clooney was arrested for protesting against the Sudanese government (2), which shows how much they deny the genocide. Their is proof of all the murders and yet they still deny