Jared Coleman (103), Marisa Romig (109), Aaron Schalk (110)

Informative: Magazine Article

2 March 2012

  

The most known Genocide happened during World War II. The Holocaust was under the leadership of Hitler. He tried to wipe out the entire Jewish race. The word Genocide did not become used until the Holocaust and it means to use violent crimes to completely get rid of a group of people. There were events that would be considered genocide even before the Holocaust but the term did not come to be used then. One example of this would be like when we came to this country and removed the Indians in harsh way from this land. Also some wars in the past were trying to wipe out whole groups of people. These are examples of genocide in the past.

Even in the world today there are still many cases of genocide that happen in other countries.    There are many examples of Genocide in the world today, one example is that in Northern Sudan their government has been putting attacks on its people in an internal war. Another place that this is still happening is in the Congo were the groups in this place are fighting each other and they are also being effected by genocide in Rwanda and Burundi the people fear that their enterer group will be wiped out. Then in southern Sudan the people of this country are in a civil war with northern Sudan. In this war there have been over 2 million people that have been killed and 4 million people have been displaced. A total of 80% of the people hear were killed which makes it the largest genocide since the Holocaust in Europe. In the country Rwanda there were 500,000 Tutsi people killed by a Hutu extremist- led government that planned to wipeout the entire race of the Tutsi people. Another example that shows that Genocide is still happening in the world even today is that in Burundi they are having a civil war between the two major groups of the country and there have been 300,000 people killed and 800,000 people displaced. Those are some of the things happening that prove there are still a lot of people that are being killed and having their lives ruined because of the genocide that is happening were they live.

Sadly Genocide will probably still happen in the future because there will always be separate groups and fights between them. Also it would be impossible to control every country and every nation on the Earth. Even if Genocide was made illegal everywhere Genocide would still occur in secret. That is why Genocide will probably always be around.

This picture is taken in Sudan where it is estimated

that 2 million people died and 4 million were displaced.

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