The Final Solution: Genocide In Darfur

Over 62,587,797 and counting innocent people have lost their lives due to past and ongoing acts of genocide. Genocide in Darfur today has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than 100 people die each day; 5 thousand die every month. It is an unpleasant situation, that has gone on for over 100 years in numerous countries. 5,290,000 people died in The Holocaust death camps. Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of Germany’s economic crisis and began what was called the “ Final Solution”. Genocide is unacceptable, innocent people shouldn't lose their life because, of the color of their skin, or what religion they practice. Genocide is a disturbing occurrence and it needs to be stopped. First off

When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he created a highly organized strategy of murder, persecution, and genocide, aimed ethnically ” purifying Germany.” (1) Hitler called this plan the “ Final Solution” (1) Over 6 million Jews, Slav, Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals, the disabled, Roma, and Political and Religious dissidents were killed in the numerous concentration camps located in Germany. (1) There is this quote that was said after the Holocaust it said, “ We believe we must fulfill the promise the world made following the Holocaust: Never Again.” (2) Again in 1915, ethnic Armenians located in the Ottoman Empire were victims of genocide by the order of the government. (2) There were massacres, forced deportation marches, and many deaths due to disease in concentration camps, the estimated amount of deaths is about 1 million Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks throughout a nine year time period. (2) In addition to the first quote, when the Genocide Convention was passed by the United States in 1948, the world said, “Never Again.” (4) However in spite of the world saying, “Never Again”, it happened again. It happened again in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took over the government of Cambodia, they started a re education campaign, targeting dissidents of political power. (2) People being targeted were doctors, teachers, and students suspected of learning and receiving an education, these people were tortured and killed at the Tuol

There are eight stages of genocide, the first classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, identification, extermination, and finally denial. (4) In order to not only prevent genocide, but stop it, the world needs to first understand it. (4) There are 3 ways that genocide can be prevented, first the world must sound the alarm and demand action, second is to stop the enablers, and third the world needs to make Human Rights and genocide important values in the U.S foreign policy. (2) The world can sound the alarm by preventing the horrors of genocide, however this requires the government forces to make the best choices needed to end genocide. (2) It is equally as important to stop the enablers, genocide and acts of mass killings cannot prosper without the help and support of other governments and corporations. (2) Finally the world must make human rights and genocide important values of the U.S foreign policy, in April 2012 President Barack Obama announced a sequence of actions to ensure that the United States is better able to prevent and acknowledge genocide and mass atrocities.