Genocide In The 21st Century

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Genocides are still occurring; the first genocide of the 21st century was the Darfur genocide. This genocide started in February 2003. The conflict is between north and south regions of Sudan. The north is largely made up of an Islam population. The south is largely made up of a Christian population, creating conflict tied to religion similar to the Holocaust (#1). The capital of the north is Khartoum governed under General Omar al-Bashir. He desired to create Islamic-based government, which the south was not in favor of resulted in a civil war. The Darfur genocide is an example of ethnic cleansing because the northern region campaigned for an Islamic-based government, murdering hundreds of thousands non-Islamic people. The civil war resulted …show more content…
The medium fish sees the world has some justice. The medium fish explains two types of people in the Holocaust genocide: the Nazi party and the supporters. The Nazi party believed with if they listened to their dictator, that society would have some justice and be fair. Supporters found justice in helping aid holocaust victims. The large fish sees the world the as it appears similar, to Adolf Hitler. The larger fish shows power and oppression over the other fish. From the larger fishes view, he sees that there is justice in the world but as the hierarchy of society decreases people lose justice and are treated …show more content…
Even though the articles explains a terrorist attack it is similar to a genocide because in both events mass murders occurred. During both events, the economy suffered tremendously effect the globe. Leaders of the other operations, grab power and took control leading people in a tragedy. There were survivors in both events, suffered with grief and had to rebuild their lives. The article states, people were pushed “into poverty and starvation” and so were people in genocides (Bigelow & Peterson, 2002, p. 347). After the Holocaust and after 9/11, people had to build a new life with new encounters, new jobs, make a new identity and “make a new sense of their new activities and surroundings” (Bigelow & Peterson, 2002, p. 348). Both events, effected the world dramatically creating globalization

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