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Fighting to Stop Genocide


             During these genocides the entire world stayed away from the countries and didn't act until it was too late to do any good. Yes after World War Two we held the a conference and stated that the countries had state sovereignty, and other countries couldn't participate in these affairs, but the World needs to realize that the state sovereignty should no longer apply if the government fails to protect its own people from mass murder, genocide or any other crimes against humanity. State sovereignty should only be able to protect the countries from so much until someone else needs to step in and help save the countries people before it is too late.
             After World War Two the Genocide Convention was held among the United Nations. This is where all of the countries in the United Nations decided that genocide cannot occur again. With this being said, the United Nations all signed this document in hopes of genocide finally being put to an end. This lasted about thirty years until the next large scale .
             genocide in 1975, this is when the Cambodian genocide began. The document itself gave a large amount of leeway to countries with state sovereignty and when it can only go so far until someone else needs to step in. Overall the international community has been ineffective against preventing genocide although all of the countries who signed the document agreed with the terms.
             The world needs to realize that if genocide cannot be contained by its own country, among its borders then someone needs to intervene. Genocide affects everyone, and it's best that every time that genocide occurs among other countries that someone else steps in and stops the genocide before countless lives are lost. The international community needs to better communicate on the Genocide Convention on how many lives have to be lost before the mass murders can be considered genocide. Once these strong forces begin the mass killings of a race, stopping them will not be easy.


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1. The history of genocide

... throughout the country, including the capital, Bujumbura. In the first week of fighting, between two and three thousand were killed on each side. Government sources erroneously claimed that Bahutus killed more than fifty thousand Watutsis. This government account maintained that the aim of the Bahutu rebels was to exterminate the Watutsi race. By mid-May, Watutsi soldiers had completed their ... military operations against the so-called rebels. The threat to civil peace was over, but the killings of Bahutus by the Watutsi authorities continued. Soldiers and paramilitary, as well as ordin...

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2. Elie Wiesel - Messenger to Mankind

... by the Sandinistas. After closely examining the conditions of the group of Indians in Honduras, Wiesel flew to Paris and successfully persuaded French officials to stop the sale of helicopter gunships to the Sandinistas (Schleier). He also aided refugees in Cambodia in 1981 and worked on brining food to Cambodia soon after. Elie Wiesel's humanitarian efforts were recognized with a gold medal from the white house ... which was directed towards Jewish people. Wiesel spoke about anti-Semitism and addressed issues plaguing the worldwide Jewish community at a fundraiser. He spoke about Israel...

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3. South Africa's President Announces He's Ready for Truce

... to reach an agreement to end the fighting in Africa during their meeting on Monday, May 30th. The two leaders have been trying for some time to meet on common ground to create a cease-fire, but neither is willing to compromise on certain points (MSNBC). Gadhafi agreed to accept an African Union initiative for a cease-fire that would stop ... refuse completely, we don't consider it a political initiative, it is only some stuff that Gadhafi wants to announce to stay in power," he announced from Benghazi, the de facto rebel capital. Baja believed that Zuma ... the NATO bombing campaign agai...

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4. United Nations-The continuam of Failure

... the same time as the genocide. As if they were morally equivalent groups, both the genocidaire government and those fighting to end the genocide were called upon by the UN, the Organization of African Unity and others to agree to a cease-fire. They did not call on the genocidaires to stop the genocide. Had the RPF agreed to a cease-fire, the scale of the genocide would have been even greater ... . Only days after the genocide began, 2500 Tutsi as well as Hutu ... million Rwandans were slaughtered. Yet Bill Clinton had been informed in advance by the CIA that this genocide was going to occ...

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5. Lone Ranger Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

... , and dance. Americans always thought that they have no use in society, and now the Native Indians are beginning to believe it too. What Native Americans perceived the value of their own people were present when Victor's uncles, Adolph and Arnold, were fighting outside in the storm (3). Some people thought that Adolph and Arnold would kill each other if the fight continued ... front and cold fronts collides, a hurricane occurs. A hurricane is made up of just wind and rain. A storm, though, constitutes of wind, rain, snow, floods, and hurricanes. Arnold and Adolph were fighting in the sno...

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6. Terrorism in Russia

... and almost everyone was forced from Grozny, but the Russian forces were able to take over Grozny. This did not stop the Chechen rebels though from fighting, and by the end of 1996, approximately eighty thousand lives were lost in the war. Dudayev was assassinated during the war, and after the fighting new elections were held, and Aslan Maskhadov was elected president (UNPO Chechen ... against Chechnya. As I mentioned before Russia deported almost half of the entire population of Chechnya. This shows that there is a history of transgressions against the Chechen people. The last level, ge...

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7. Terrorism in Russia

... and almost everyone was forced from Grozny, but the Russian forces were able to take over Grozny. This did not stop the Chechen rebels though from fighting, and by the end of 1996, approximately eighty thousand lives were lost in the war. Dudayev was assassinated during the war, and after the fighting new elections were held, and Aslan Maskhadov was elected president (UNPO Chechen ... against Chechnya. As I mentioned before Russia deported almost half of the entire population of Chechnya. This shows that there is a history of transgressions against the Chechen people. The last level, ge...

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8. Why Shouldn't The U.S. Intervene In Kosova?

... which were released over the weekend speak for themselves. But how many mass graves have to be discovered before someone actually does intervene? As a seventeen year old Albanian-American student in the United States, it is a shame to watch my relatives in Kosova die when they are fighting for the same ideas that the founding fathers of the American Constitution stressed when they ... hope - the Kosova Liberation Army. This is the only defense we have against Milosevic and his army. Two million people is alot to kill and we will keep fighting and fighting until the last Albanian stands....

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9. Army for the Liberation of Rwa

... on the Tutsis population. On April 6, the plane carrying president Habyarimana and his counterpart from Burundi was gunned down as it was about to land in Kigali. Both presidents were killed instantly. This sparked the event of genocide because Habyarimana's supporters thought that it was an organized murder by some Tutsi rebels. The military and the militias began killing and gunning down ... and formed the Army for the liberation of Rwanda (ALIR) and there main goal was to over throw the Tutsi dominated government and reinstitute Hutu control and possibly, complete the genocide . Ther...

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