Genocide

A detailed Summary of Genocide

Wouldn't it be scary if someone suddenly decided that you should disappear because he thinks you do not have the right to live because of your race or religion? Scary yes, but definitely possible. The word genocide, which is also known as ethnic cleansing, is certainly not uncommon to anyone living in this not so perfect world, full of violence, hatred and discrimination. Throughout the decades, genocide has taken place in more than one occasion, causing wars, slaughters and mass destruction of cities and towns. I think that genocide is by far the worst crime in humanity. Hatred, superiority and personal memories are all behind genocide.

Everyday, I get more surprised on how some very powerful leaders can act so cruelly and kill thousands of innocent people just because of their ethnicity, race or religion. The political leaders who committed genocide do not seem very smart to me because strong and powerful countries do not differentiate between colour and religion. Equality is the most important aspect leading to a united, strong country despite the different races or religions in that country. Instead of killing, chasing and dividing up their countries, these leaders should have created a powerful and united country.

Personally, when I first heard the term genocide, the first picture that came up to my mind was the picture of the German dictator Hitler. Hitler hated Jews and saw them as the reason behind every disaster in the world. In his biography on Hitler, Schramm wrote that there is a theory explaining the reasons behind Hitler's hatred towards Jews, he said that one of Hitler's ancestors who was Jewish, "took advantage" of a small girl (51). This incident obviously made Hitler paranoid for the rest of his life making him hate and despise all Jews. He decided to kill them and looked for a better world where they won't exist at all. Maybe if Hitler had not hated these Jews and instead if killing them and putting them in gas chambers in awful concentration camps, he could have won World War 2.

Charny, Israel W. Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. London: Mansell,

Harff, Barbara. Genocide and Human Rights: International Legal and Political

The Jews genocide is also known as the Holocaust. Nazis were unbelievably harsh and monster-like when it came to dealing with Jews. Six Million Jews were killed in camps (Harff 11). A very well known camp is Auschwitz. Charny also wrote that Nazis called Jews "poisoners of Aryan blood", Nazis also wanted to totally eliminate the Jewish race from the universe (65), and they obviously did their very best to achieve that. But Nazis did not only see Jews as a minority, they also thought that homosexuals, Russians, Poles, Gypsies (Chardy

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