Genocide In The 20th Century

Genocide is the “’acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.’(Genocide Convention, 1948,) these acts included killing or causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group and also deliberately inflicting conditions on a people such as ‘to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part.’”(Gellately and Kiernan, 2003) This crime and that of terrorism, which is the “use of terrorizing methods of governing or resisting governments” (Ahmad, Eqbal, “Terrorism: Theirs & Ours,1998,) are atrocities that have happened and continue to happen today. The president of Sudan was convicted of committing genocide against his own people. Yet although there is an arrest warrant …show more content…
Second is that people who live in countries around the world are silent, they don’t react to the news stories that they read. They don’t fight for the unfortunate victims of terrorism and genocide. They don’t demand government interference in the countries where these acts are happening. They think that “someone else will do it” or “ I have my own problems,” and many other thoughts. The government today in the United States and many other places around the world reflect their people’s thoughts, and when the people want silence and ignorance that is how the government acts. A third reason for genocide and terrorism is because the world runs on the realist idea, of acting on one’s own interest. Countries will act only if the actions acquiesces with the countries …show more content…
The problem with this is that the International Criminal Court lacks the power to enforce its jurisdiction, and requires the United Nations to enforce its court rulings. The security council votes whether to enforce the ICC’s arrest warrants, and sentences. A case accusing the President of Sudan was taken to the United Nation’s security council, asking the security council to enforce the arrest warrant for the president of Sudan for committing actions of genocide. However the president of Sudan is still acting in his usual ways, because members of the security council votes against enforcing the arrest warrant. This happens because members of the security council have conflicting interest in keeping the present president of Sudan in power, and therefore the security council doesn’t enforce the International Criminal Court’s ruling, essentially making the ICC have little to no effect on the world. A system that was created to prevent the acts of genocide, terrorism and other crimes from happening, is forced to cater to powerful countries