Cleansing Ethnicities - Reflection 16

After reading and learning about ethnic cleansing and genocide I realized how lucky and blessed that I am that I didn’t have to endure the atrocities that the people of Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur had to experience. To make matters worse, the genocide in Rwanda was the most recent of them all. The pnly thing that is more disgusting than knowing that this happened so recent is the fact that there were other countries in the area and the United States that could have stopped this genocide form happening. When I had the opportunity to watch Hotel Rwanda I was already briefed that the events actually happened and was not from someone’s imagination. What does it take to stop an event like this from occurring? How many more people have to die before we realize that prejudice has done enough damage? One thing that I have learned is that theses prejudicial and obscenely cruel acts only stem through fear. Fear is by far one of the most powerful emotions that one can hold. It has the power to make people do things that they would normally not do, but if someone fears of their culture’s decline, their group, their family, or even themselves, they evidently hold the power to do many things. One can never stop learning about the human race and the ill-mannered things that they are capable of. I can only imagine the paint hat these victims have felt and even that is not enough. The genocide in Rwanda, the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia have the same output. Merciless killers who gave themselves the authority to kill these human beings. There were over two hundred thousand people that were killed in Bosnia by the Serbians who had leaders that even ordered for some villages to be “cleansed” more than others because there were more Muslims living in the territory. After the cleansing, only then was it safe for Serbians to live in the “freshly” cleansed territory. Who are they to judge and say who should be cleansed? Sometimes I wonder where was the logical thinking government in these countries that basically allowed these things to happen to their people. These events can be prevented if people understand that not everyone is going to be alike. This only proves that people only fear what they do not know. If everyone was supposed to be the same I would think that they would have been created the same by the superior being (God). Or even if they do not believe in God they would understand that if people were meant to be the same then all the apes in the world that evolved into human beings would have been the same.
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