This image was taken in Iraq when Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were killed during an organized attempt to exterminate the Kurdish people in the late 1980. They were tied together and shot together. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in terrible conditions and man and boys were shot.
I was one year old when the genocide against Tutsi 1994 in Rwanda happened when more than one million people executed. Up to now I cannot comprehend the reason that comes in the mind of the perpetrators and think of exterminating a group of people. People well killed using guns and traditional materials such as machetes and others were kicked, dragged and …show more content…
For instance, the mass killing of political rebels or protestors would not be considered as the genocide “How the genocide relate to other types of mass killing”. Mass killing based on ideology driven policy, but where there was no particular group targeted with an intent of destroying a whole group would also not meet the legal definition of the genocide. The Genocide recognized by UN are: against Armenians, against Jewish (Holocaust), Cambodians, Tutsi in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur however there is other recognized genocide “UN home …show more content…
The Genocide is always supported by the government and require a lot of preparation before it is put into action, sometime trial are made to check if everything will go as planned. Being supported by the government that is what brings difficulties in preventing the genocide. According to UN former general secretary “Koffi Annan” understanding the way the genocide occurs and learning to recognize signs that could lead to the genocide are important in making sure that such tragedy do not happen again. Majors to prevent the genocide have been there before and up to now, but nothing has changed to prevent the genocide or mass killing around the world. The word that has always used after the genocide is never again but it has turned into again and again since the Holocaust. We as youth we should stand out and take action by developing a spirt of speaking from the heart and say “Never again” from the heart, and raise our voice to stop the genocide or mass killing around the world such as in Syria, Somalia and Burundi in
I was one year old when the genocide against Tutsi 1994 in Rwanda happened when more than one million people executed. Up to now I cannot comprehend the reason that comes in the mind of the perpetrators and think of exterminating a group of people. People well killed using guns and traditional materials such as machetes and others were kicked, dragged and …show more content…
For instance, the mass killing of political rebels or protestors would not be considered as the genocide “How the genocide relate to other types of mass killing”. Mass killing based on ideology driven policy, but where there was no particular group targeted with an intent of destroying a whole group would also not meet the legal definition of the genocide. The Genocide recognized by UN are: against Armenians, against Jewish (Holocaust), Cambodians, Tutsi in Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur however there is other recognized genocide “UN home …show more content…
The Genocide is always supported by the government and require a lot of preparation before it is put into action, sometime trial are made to check if everything will go as planned. Being supported by the government that is what brings difficulties in preventing the genocide. According to UN former general secretary “Koffi Annan” understanding the way the genocide occurs and learning to recognize signs that could lead to the genocide are important in making sure that such tragedy do not happen again. Majors to prevent the genocide have been there before and up to now, but nothing has changed to prevent the genocide or mass killing around the world. The word that has always used after the genocide is never again but it has turned into again and again since the Holocaust. We as youth we should stand out and take action by developing a spirt of speaking from the heart and say “Never again” from the heart, and raise our voice to stop the genocide or mass killing around the world such as in Syria, Somalia and Burundi in