Preventing Genocide EssayBy:All through history, people have killed other people. Usually, this is just because of hatred of that one person. Unfortunately, sometimes people can have a deep-rooted hatred of an entire group of people. This hatred of people leads to genocide. Everybody knows about genocide, few know how to define it, and even fewer know what to do about it.
Everyone also knows about at least one genocide: the Holocaust. However two other not-so-widely-known genocides were the Armenian genocides in Ottoman Turkey and Azerbaijan. In all three of these genocides, one thing and one thing only could have stopped them: armed intervention. The first genocide I will talk about is the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey. This is a genocide that not too many people know about. It took place in 1915, and was the killing of “the Armenian people by the Turkish-Ottoman government.
” (The Genocides) The reason for this killing off of innocent people was religious differences. However, because this genocide was already at stage eight, (slaughter), the only prevention could have been armed intervention. Chronologically, the next genocide is the big one: the Holocaust. Almost everyone knows about this genocide, even if they know of no others. Everyone knows that Adolf Hitler was in charge of the Nazis, whose primary job was killing the Jews. Because everyone knew about this, this genocide was stopped much sooner than the Ottoman genocide.
In fact, if the Ottoman killings were noticed sooner, the Holocaust might not have happened. Hitler was once quoted while persuading his troops that the holocaust wouldn’t be noticed because ;Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?; (The Genocides) The Holocaust was also in the eighth stage at the time it was noticed, so only armed intervention could stop it. The third and last Genocide I will talk about is also an Armenian killing. This one takes place in Azerbaijan, in 1990.
Yes, as recently as 1990 and sooner genocides have been occurring and you probably didn’t realize it. This one, like just about every other genocide, was about religion. Instead of being in turkey however, this one takes place in Azerbaijan. The government again committed this genocide Armenians were tortured then killed.
Because of being in the killing stage, only armed intervention could prevent it. As shown above, genocide happens all the time. In all the ones I have researched, only armed intervention from another organization could prevent it. If some were brought to attention of the world sooner, it might not have been needed, but at the eighth stage, only one thing can prevent genocide from continuing.
This universally agreed solution is armed intervention. Work CitedThe genocides. 02 May 2004. . .
