Genocide all over the world.. 30 gennaio 2014 alle ore 8.29 For me of course as a jew, and since my own people had suffered so much during the Holocaust period, this can not be left without any consideration. I admit that there are also other people like the Armenian people that went through a big genocide, even before the jewish people in Europe. The Armenian Genocide occured in 1915 - 1916, where 1.5 million victimes were estimated to have found their miserable death by the hands of the Turkish government. This holocaust that even today is not amitted by the Turcs and the whole world even do not mention it. Of course we do not have to forget the most recent African Genocide which happen in Rwanda in 1994, which estimates that death ranged from 500.000 to 1.000.000 people which was a 20% of the country total population. The most amazing thing is that the longstanding ethnic competition and tension between the minority Tutsi, who had controlled power for century, and the majority Hutu people, who had come to power in the Rebellion of 1959-62. The Rwandan Civil War, supported by Uganda, brought to violent reactions during which Hutu groups conducted mass killing of Tutsis. Today Rwanda commemorates this genocide with two pubblic holidays. But this is not all, the list is very long..not to forget the Progroms against the jewish people in the Soviet Union...In Japan, in the Nazi Germany, in China and Tibet, in Australia with their own population the Aborigines in 1788 and farther on. This problem did not came to an end ...Guatemala in 1966, Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Srebrenica Genocide in 1994, Cambodia Khramer Rouge led by Pot Pot with the killing of an average of 2.5 million people, among them former civil servants, former government soldiers, Buddist monks and secular intellectuals and professionals. Not to forget also the Latin American countries, and especially Argentina of our days, with the well known Military Giunta, leaded by President Velida and by his successors. This period goes between 1976 and 1983, which brought to the torture, omicide and disappearance of more than 30.000 persons. I still have to mention the Iraqi-Kurdish Civil War in the middle of 1990, where between 3.000 and 5.000 civilians were killed thoughtout more than 3 years of warfare. The Sri-Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. It started in July 1983 by an independent militant organization which fought to create an Independent Tami State in the north east if the island. Only on May 2009 the civil war ended. This long 27 years of civil war brought an end to their economy, where an estimated of 80.000 to 100.000 people were killed. Darfur, a region of Sudan on which two rebels groups struggle and succeded to take up their arms against the Government of Sudan. The actual Sudan President, Omar al-Bashir is accused of genocide and of crimes against humanity by the International Civil Court. Not to mention the Eritrean and Ethiopian conflict in the Horn of Africa, a war between two of the worlds poorest contry. Eritrea claimed that 19.000 eritrean soldiers were killed during the conflict, but all the war casualties were around 70.000. Eritrea accused Ethiopia of using human waves to defeat eritrean trenches. The Somali Civil War started in 1991, against the long-standing military regime and went on till the intervention of the United Mission to provide humanitarian relief and help to restore order in Somalia after the dissolution of its central government. The number of casualties is even unknown and any official reports on the matter. All this to end now this chapter.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 22:14:21 +0000
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