American-Romanian writer and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his serious and critical speech, “The Perils Of Indifferences,” suggests that indifference is dangerous and indifference can cause great suffering to another person, which is why indifference should be stop to further prevent more harm. He develops his message by narrating his experiences in the concentration camp, providing himself credibility to further explain the issue that has happened. Furthermore, Wiesel elaborates on the meaning of inference and shows that bring indifferent to another is worse than God’s anger shown in a line “ For us to be ignored by God was a harsher punishment than to be a victim of His anger (“The Peril of Indifference”).” Ultimately, Wiesel illustrates the different unfortunate events that cause due to
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The Darfur genocide was a result of the civil war that occurred in Sudan, and overall, the genocide killed around 300,000 people. During the genocide, a group of people named the Janjaweed killed and raped the men, women, as well as the childrens of the people who lived in Darfur. Although President George Bush officially announced Darfur as a genocide in 2004, some nations such as the UN didn’t declare the act in Darfur as a genocide until later on and the ICC released an arrest warrant on President Omar al-Bashir, who was the cause of the Darfur genocide that occurred. Their efforts to attempt to stop the situation was similar to what Wiesel proclaimed in his speech of President Theodore Roosevelt in which Roosevelt was indifferent towards the Jewish people and just sent soldiers in effort to defeat Hitler but made no attempt to bring Jews to America. Generally speaking, Wiesel’s point is applicable to modern society like Darfur, which occurred in 2003, proving people are always indifferent towards others, leading to danger and
The Darfur genocide was a result of the civil war that occurred in Sudan, and overall, the genocide killed around 300,000 people. During the genocide, a group of people named the Janjaweed killed and raped the men, women, as well as the childrens of the people who lived in Darfur. Although President George Bush officially announced Darfur as a genocide in 2004, some nations such as the UN didn’t declare the act in Darfur as a genocide until later on and the ICC released an arrest warrant on President Omar al-Bashir, who was the cause of the Darfur genocide that occurred. Their efforts to attempt to stop the situation was similar to what Wiesel proclaimed in his speech of President Theodore Roosevelt in which Roosevelt was indifferent towards the Jewish people and just sent soldiers in effort to defeat Hitler but made no attempt to bring Jews to America. Generally speaking, Wiesel’s point is applicable to modern society like Darfur, which occurred in 2003, proving people are always indifferent towards others, leading to danger and