Genocide
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Genocide stems from prejudice, racism, discrimination etc. Any moral person will agree with me when I say there is never a legitimate reason for discrmination, racism, being sexist, etc. We would never let someone who lives two houses down kill a person five houses down because they were Catholic, or Jewish, or Black, or Indian, or whatever else they might be. So why do we let it happen in other countries? It just doesn't make sense; that people are being killed for no reason and that we sit back and channel-surf. We have a voice, we just have to use it.
In the last century 400 million have died through wars, while 600 million have been lost to genocides. An interesting new novel uses this history for background. THE EXCEPTION by Christian Jurgensen and explores "the banality of evil" (Hannah Arendt.)
Millions of innocent civilians are murdered, displaced, kidnapped, raped, or tortured in areas where one absolutist government attempts to rid a certain group of people of their rights to life. No human being should be judged by his or her status as part of a certain group, and he or she certainly should not be victim to the hatred of another group deliberately trying to harm them. However, genocide still exists, despite moral scorn towards it. In Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), genocide is defined as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." Genocide has been going on since the beginning of human history, but only now do we have the means to end it.
The term "Genocide" was coined during World War II because there was no word in the English language to describe the atrocities commited against the Jews of Europe. Now, it's being used too often. Genocide here, Genocide there. I don't want people to become desensitized to that. I want the world to realize the term GENOCIDE comes from the Greek roots "geno" and "-cide." "Cide" means "to kill" and "geno" means "people." To kill a people. Such crimes are calculated, planned out. Children are seized from families and either killed or completely removed from their culture. Entire races and cultures are targeted with guns, bombs, and excessive violence. Just because we have a word for it doesn't make genocide ok.
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Genocide: (n) the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. (Webster's Dictionary) This is an atrocious crime that should not be allowed to continue in our world. After World War II and the Holocaust, the world made a promise of "Never Again." Never again would we allow such a crime to be commited. Never again would we sit back and do nothing. And yet, since World War II, there has been Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur and countless others. As a human race, we need to work to keep that promise. According to Article 1 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948), "The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.." It is important that our promise and this political decree be upheld. If genocides continue to happen, who knows who will be next? All evil needs to win is for good men to do nothing. "First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me." --Pastor Martin Niemoller Do you want to live in a world where Paster Niemoller's words are the harsh reality? I don't. How do we prevent this? Speak out! Speak out again genocide!
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