Human Rights Violation In History

Throughout history, many people have been oppressed and denied human rights. The way people think about human rights have evolved. Back then many people thought it was ok to oppress the citizen in order to become superior while today we find human rights violation inhumane. Governments have tried to oppress the people of their country in order to remain in power; some have succeeded while some have failed. When the people were oppressed, there is often one individual who steps up and helps fight for the people’s rights. Examples of human rights violation is the holocaust and the Indians under the British rule in India. During the holocaust, the Jews were blamed for all of Germany’s problems and were deprived of human rights. In India, the British discriminated the Indians and made them second class …show more content…
Jews were not allowed to have the same fashion as Germans and were provided with less food, clothes, and living space. Because of Hitler’s hatred of inferior races, propaganda was used to brain wash people in to hating Jews which led to anti-Semitism. The Jews were used as escape goats and were blamed for all the social, economic and political problems that the Germans were facing. Jews started to lose their rights during the 1930s. During that time, all Jewish doctors, shops, lawyers, and stores were boycotted. Persecution of Jews became a regular thing and anti-Jewish propaganda began to appear everywhere. Because persecution of the Jews became a regular thing, many were often killed or were deported to concentration camps, slave labor camp, death camp and ghettos. In the concentration camps, Jews were starved, beaten, sent to gas chambers and were intentionally worked to death. In slave labor camp, Jews between ages 14 to 60 were worked to death because they were considered fit to work. Jews were brought to death camps were murdered. Jews who were forced in to ghettos were constantly watched by the Nazi.