Hardworking citizens that spend their whole lives trying to make the world a better place for their families are stripped of everything and everyone they love dear due to their beliefs, ethnicity, or what nation they belong to. Genocide, although commonly practiced has been frowned upon by every nation, including the nations that continue to murder innocents every day. The atrocities that occur during the mass killings are often looked over as people would rather see the bright side of life and not focus on what they did to their fellow human beings. These genocides can be traced for thousands of year, moreover, these callous killings will not cease to exist anytime soon no matter how much they should. The most well known genocide is the
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South Sudan has become a wasteland ravaged by war with fínate resources that are stretched extremely thin over the current population. The genocide began when a military president Salva Kiir Mayardit , member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, and a Dinka, supposedly tried to disarm the army loyal to former Vice President Machar, a Nuer, and a critic of Kiir. “The violence has spiraled ever since taking on an ethnic dimension with Machar, ethnically Nuer, leading a group of rebels against President Salva Kiir, ethnically Dinka” (end Genocide.org 1). The Dinka and Nuer have a long rivalry with each other, competing for land, cattle, and now political power. They also dislike each other for ethnic reasons. There is always an aggressor, a victim, and bystanders. In this case, the aggressors are the Dinka military, the victims are the Nuer civilians, and on the side, watching as bystanders, are the United Nations, the African Union, and the Troika (European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank). The genocide itself is organized and carried out by the Dinka genocide. The atrocities started in December, 2013, and continue to this day. This type of ethnically repression has been expressed in the Holocaust when Germany lead by Hitler and the Nazis took over the government and started to persecution the Jews. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat to gain political power and he had a personal dislike towards Jews due to his rejection from art school made by Jewish teachers. The League of Nations failed to get directly involved until millions were dead, allowing the Final Solution to be orchestrated by the army from 1933 to 1945. Years prior to this, from 1914 to 1923, 800,000 to 1.5 million deaths with no League of Nations or United Nations to intervene. The Ottoman Empire’s
South Sudan has become a wasteland ravaged by war with fínate resources that are stretched extremely thin over the current population. The genocide began when a military president Salva Kiir Mayardit , member of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, and a Dinka, supposedly tried to disarm the army loyal to former Vice President Machar, a Nuer, and a critic of Kiir. “The violence has spiraled ever since taking on an ethnic dimension with Machar, ethnically Nuer, leading a group of rebels against President Salva Kiir, ethnically Dinka” (end Genocide.org 1). The Dinka and Nuer have a long rivalry with each other, competing for land, cattle, and now political power. They also dislike each other for ethnic reasons. There is always an aggressor, a victim, and bystanders. In this case, the aggressors are the Dinka military, the victims are the Nuer civilians, and on the side, watching as bystanders, are the United Nations, the African Union, and the Troika (European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank). The genocide itself is organized and carried out by the Dinka genocide. The atrocities started in December, 2013, and continue to this day. This type of ethnically repression has been expressed in the Holocaust when Germany lead by Hitler and the Nazis took over the government and started to persecution the Jews. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat to gain political power and he had a personal dislike towards Jews due to his rejection from art school made by Jewish teachers. The League of Nations failed to get directly involved until millions were dead, allowing the Final Solution to be orchestrated by the army from 1933 to 1945. Years prior to this, from 1914 to 1923, 800,000 to 1.5 million deaths with no League of Nations or United Nations to intervene. The Ottoman Empire’s