Genocide did not start with Rwanda and the terrible, and did not end after the horrifying days that transpired after the events start. During those 100 days in which the Rwandan genocide took place, it has been estimated that Rwanda lost anywhere from a minimum of 500,000 to as many as 1,000,000 people (1). These numbers are even greater when you consider that it makes up as much as seventy percent of the targeted Tutsi people and about twenty percent of the entire population of the country (1). Since the instance in Rwanda ended, there has been at least 4 different acts of genocide, if we do not include Syria, which we should, of genocide throughout the world. The past and present atrocities, are only a minute representation of the genocide humanity has inflected upon one another.
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This divide happened between the different ethnic groups residing in the vicinity at that time. Said ethnic groups included those who were Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian peoples (3). After Bosnia gained independence in 92 it rapidly became a hub for violence and death (3). Like in Rwanda a “brother’ people targeted each other and yet again titled it an ethnic cleansing process. In this war 100,000 lives were claimed (3&4). In one of the more recent cases of genocide, and an example of how we have learned nothing, would be in Darfur (3). This crisis has been ongoing for well over a decade but its relative climax came in 2003 (2). With 3 million people displaced and over 300,00 of the Sudanese civilians dead (4). This death toll was staggering, and continues to rise. The actual genocide taking place in Darfur was for the most part ignored and overlooked, by the rest of the
This divide happened between the different ethnic groups residing in the vicinity at that time. Said ethnic groups included those who were Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian peoples (3). After Bosnia gained independence in 92 it rapidly became a hub for violence and death (3). Like in Rwanda a “brother’ people targeted each other and yet again titled it an ethnic cleansing process. In this war 100,000 lives were claimed (3&4). In one of the more recent cases of genocide, and an example of how we have learned nothing, would be in Darfur (3). This crisis has been ongoing for well over a decade but its relative climax came in 2003 (2). With 3 million people displaced and over 300,00 of the Sudanese civilians dead (4). This death toll was staggering, and continues to rise. The actual genocide taking place in Darfur was for the most part ignored and overlooked, by the rest of the