How To Prevent The Bosnian Genocide

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When looking back at the millions of lives lost in genocides, one can only imagine a solution or aid that could have assisted, but also controlled the genocide. A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people based on their ethnic group or beliefs. When studying past genocides, like in Rwanda and Bosnia, both genocides could have been prevented with the proper help from an outside group, the UN.

Many examples in history show multiple times where people have banded together to fight for the common good, but they might always notice how bad it actually in. This is what happened in the Bosnian genocide with the world. Nobody actually reacted until the news was spread worldwide that Serbs killed 8,000 males in Srebrenica(“Genocide and” 34). This is when the rest of the world, especially developed countries, saw the need to help these innocent people in Bosnia.The United Nations tried to help the Bosniaks and Croats who were in severe need of a rescue but only sent 400 soldiers. The city of Srebrenica had so much violence in it that it was too spread out for the UN soldiers to make an impact. This resulted in these soldiers getting criticized around the world for their lack of contribution(36). This was not the case for the genocide of the Jews. The Jews were at the height of media during the second World War. Hitler and his Nazi party made headlines week after week with the Holocaust. Many of the countries in the Allied Powers were shocked to see that something so disastrous could actually happen.Mass killings were constantly made at every camp. There is an estimated 250,000 Jewish people who died from these mass killings(“The Holocaust”

According to Daniel Goldhagen, genocides are constantly being underestimated, which causes the never ending realities of the past repeating itself. From high officials to ordinary citizens, people often overlook the pattern and causes of these systematic killings. One of these includes the UN, which was created to prevent another World War, and to protect the rights of sovereignty of member states. This organization serves to solve international issues, but has failed and continues to fail to prevent genocides. Even though this group signed in 1948 a UN document, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which punished and still punishes people guilty of genocide, not one life was ever saved from that declaration. The reason is because most at first want to deny that these extreme situations could happen ever again. Sadly,

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If you believe this to be problem how do you suppose your government tackles it?

Genocide is an important human rights issue. When a person or persons take it into their hands to violate someone’s given rights, it should be considered an act punishable. For people to understand the severity of their actions, their actions must have serious consequences. These consequences must be so extreme to the relevance to the act punishable that those who are planning on partaking in a similar act are made well aware of the possible punishments. If people are better educated on the subject of genocide, the reports of genocidal cases might decrease, making genocide a less extreme problem not only in the United States, but the entire world.

Genocide occurs in several nations and causes millions of lives to be lost. The slaughter of innocent men, women, and children continue daily, and will happen until the world and its people grow tired of the unnecessary loss of life and work to aid those in need. Darfurians are a prime example of what can happen when ones lives are not valued because of the difference in beliefs.

Genocides have always been a part of the world’s history. Millions of people running for their lives, hundreds of poor, overpopulated refugee camps have littered the world. A genocide is defined as the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic, religious, and/or racial group. The holocaust has been one of the largest genocides to date. However, although, it’s the modern age, genocides are still present in the world. Most happen in 3rd world countries. One genocide that’s developing the fastest is in Myanmar. Though these events happened in different millennium, the genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar and the Holocaust have their differences and similarities.

Under the precautionary principle and under international law, “wherever there are reasonable grounds for concern that serious and/or irreversible harm…may be caused…proportional action to prevent and/or abate this harm must be taken…” (Maras, 2013 citing Trouwborst, A., 2006)

By November of the same year, ICTY began to include charges of genocide. With the end of the war in 1995, Karadžić became a fugitive. He took on the name Dr. Dragan David Dabić to conceal his true identity as he worked as an alternative medicine practitioner and wrote several poems. He grew a long white beard and wore glasses to hide his face. Karadžić hid from the world for more than a decade. Eventually, Karadžić was caught in 2008 and brought to justice before the ICTY. He was put on trial and charged with eleven crimes. The first three charges involve his acts of genocide and persecution. The first charges apply to his slaughtering of 7,000 men and boys in Srebrenica. The third charge is for his persecution of Croats and Bosniaks between 1992 and 1995. The fourth, fifth, and sixth charge are for carrying out the murderous extermination of the non-Serbs in Bosnia. In addition, he is also charged for his siege of Sarajevo that resulted in the mass killings of innocent civilians. The seventh charge is for unlawful deportation of Croats and Bosniaks. The eighth charge involves inhumane acts committed on innocent people of Bosnia. These inhumane act can consist crimes such as rape, harassment, torture, and destruction of culture. The ninth and tenth charge accuses him for using terror and unlawful

Everyone should care when the topic of genocide comes up. Genocides might not happen to you but if you research the damage they do to people you should care and immediately feel empathy for those that are effected by them. Genocides are a very serious topic that scar people affected by them for

Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a very tight knit and family oriented community. Generations of families live together in the same home. Grandparents are usually being taken care of by their children. The grandparents in turn also take care of the grandchildren so both of the parents can work. Amazingly enough this happens whether you are in the large metropolitan areas or in the more rural villages. Whether the parents are working in the fields farming, or in a factory, or in an office, both parents have jobs. Rebuilding helps bring about the jobs needed for the increasing the economy, lives of the people, and the

You made an awesome point in this post Brian! It is very important to address these issues to prevent, modify, or lessen the severity by proper medical intervention, training, and resources for everyone including health care professionals, especially in areas where Internet is not one of their resources of information. Spreading awareness is the key. If these issues were given importance, all of these issues around the world can be prevented and eliminated.

We as a nation should prevent genocide by being open minded to when these events occur. We shouldn't have been passive when this was happening we have to act accordingly, when the mass killings were happening. Even though we did help in the end we should have been there in the beginning, so that we can prevent less deaths and destruction. A way we could have prevented less damage and deaths was to start with the Treaty of Versailles.