It has existed for centuries.
Genocide as defined by the United Nations in 1948 means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national ethnic, racial, or religious group, including:
• 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
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
One would think that with the increase of knowledge about the world and its people that has occured since the beginning of the 20th century, genocide would not be as prevalent in today's contemporary society.
However, genocide plagued the world throughout the 20th century and we already have evidence of that pattern repeating itself today.
Are we not learning from our mistakes and the mistakes of our ancestors? Or do we just not care enough about the world OUTSIDE our own borders? You decide. HOW do we, as an INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, fight Genocide?
You have 4 options.
*Note: Option 4 refers to the US as we have seen that "as the US goes, so the world follows".
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