Genocide Reflection Blog

The most impactful thing I learned throughout this project was how much people haven’t done to put a stop to problems in the world. Genocide continues to be committed despite the amount of people that claim it is a terrible thing. If it’s a terrible thing, why aren’t you doing anything to stop it? During the presentations we learned that the Darfur, Sudan Genocide is still occurring. Although some efforts have been made to help people experiencing the Genocide, nothing has been done to physically stop it. It’s unfortunate that no one has taken a stand and tried to stop it. 

    One of the biggest connections that I have made is how in many Genocides females have been raped and sexually assaulted. According to the presentations, the Rwandan Genocide, the Bosnian Genocide, the Democratic Republic Of Congo genocide, and the dirt for Sudan genocide all have cases of rape and sexual assault. For the democratic republic of Congo genocide rape and sexual assault was considered a war tactic. During the Rwandan genocide 250,000 women are sexually assaulted. In the Bosnian genocide Women were sent to rape camps. In all these genocide, women were taken advantage of and forced to do things they didn’t want to do. It’s baffling how, despite them all being different genocide’s, the rapping and sexual assault women are all a commonality.

    Another similarity between the genocide is how many of them don’t acknowledge what they did and they deny that it ever happened. According to the presentations, after the Armenian Genocide the Turkish government denied that it happened, Russia also denied that the Ukrainian Genocide ever occurred. Although there is much evidence and proof that the genocides took place, people still deny that happened. A lot of people died and suffered because of the genocides and some people just say that they’re lying and that it couldn’t have happened. Although many people don’t do anything to help prevent or stop the Genocide, at least they acknowledge that it exists/existed.