history (genocides)?

Question

i have 2 questions.......please try to answer them as short and complete as possible....

question 1) Why do you think genocide occurs? What are the possible causes of genocide?
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question2) How can genocide be prevented? What is being done by the United Nations to prevent genocide?

please help me...thank you

Answer 1

1.) genocide occurs when a government becomes dictatorial and tyrannical and corruption becomes the rule rather than the exception. the people become divided on racial ethnic,religious and or social lines, as one side or the other blames government for being with that other class of people and then suggests there group is better suited to lead the country.

2.) The UN is doing nothing to prevent genocide. It is another corrupted top heavy government organization with unelected officials. they never vote to interfere in a soverign nations politics especially when it is run by a dictator like so many countries who are now memmbers of the UN itslef.

genocide can be prevented when one counrty or body decides it is better to get involved in another countries politics directly to preserve human rights rather than preaserve dictators rights by not getting involved.

Answer 2

A government that conditions its people to believe they are inherently superior to another group. Crucially, this 'other' group must be made to appear as lacking human qualities. You own population must be brutalised- made to believe that the most reprehensible methods are necessary, usually on the excuse of some grave national threat.

With these two together, the conformist nature of the vast majority of people takes hold. People have no attachment to reason or fairness or truth- only to the group. With a little conditioning, individuals will embrace the brutality and carry out the most hideous acts... and feel not a twinge of guilt.


The UN cannot do much to prevent genocide because it is not a policemen: it can only mediate between members. Those who attack the UN usually misunderstand its nature and limitations. No soldier will want to die for the UN- so its ability to use force is very limited. It is like an international Neighbourhood Watch... it can call attention to problems and legitimise the response... but it is not the police, and nor should it be.

Genocide does not occur because the UN does nothing (though sometimes it does nothing). It is up to a major power to send out the troops, but sadly genocide is not often something that affects a country's interests in any direct or financial way. It can be a legitimising excuse when financial interests DO become important- such as in Saddam's case- but the world will never really stop genocide just because it is genocide.

Answer 3

Well, genocides occur when a group of people deliberately attempts to systematically wipe out another group of people. Genocide stems from many things, but most genocides are done because of hatred springing from racial/ethnic differences.

I believe that genocides would have been prevented if people of different racial or ethnic origins were separated from one another by giving them their own place to live (i.e. their own state; their own country). If only the British and other former colonial masters did this to their former colonies in Africa and the Middle East then may be genocides like the one happened in Rwanda would have been prevented.

Personally I don't think that the U.N. has done or is doing anything substantial to prevent genocides. All they do is pass economic sanctions against the governments guilty of genocide but what good these sanctions do in preventing mass killings? None.

Answer 4

~In America, it occurred because the Indians had the effrontery to think to think they had some sovereignty rights over their traditional lands and they had to be gotten out of the way of the corn and wheat farms. Causes generally are the existence of multiple races and ethnic groups, the natural superiority of each over the other, and the desire to prove it or deal with it.

It can be prevented by the elimination of human nature, the total suppression of the human spirit or the extermination of all but one race having a common a common ethnic background. (Then the slaughter will be of the blonds by the brunettes or by the brown eyes against the blues). As with any significant militarily based issue, the UN is doing all it can do and is empowered to do, which, beyond talking, is absolutely nothing.

Answer 5

1. Greed and lust for power. causes are usually a direct result of the Vatican's influence...Croatia, Rwanda, WWII Europe are examples..even the current situation in the Congo is just a spillover from Rwanda.

2. Genocide can only truly be prevented by removing human nature; but, can be reduced, in frequency, by limiting the Vatican's role in suspect countries.
The UN levies embargoes and economic sanctions as well as prosecuting the guilty for war crimes...usually