Instructions Speech – What Should the Un Do About Genocide?
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What should the UN do about genocide? This is a very thought provoking question. First, let us define genocide; genocide is the deliberate and systemic destruction of, in whole or in part of an ethnic, racial or religious national group. (Websters Dictionary, 1989) In my opinion, there should not even exist such a horrible thing, but it does. I feel that any involved in this type behavior or any who encourage this should incur the same treatment that they deem necessary to bestow upon innocent people. Perhaps if they experience just a touch of what they are participating in, then it may change their heart condition or desire to be a part of such animalistic behavior. What gratification is there to be had by cruelly punishing an innocent human being, much less a child? As I was reading the essay “Night” by Elie Wiesel, my stomach was in knots, especially when it came to the part where they hung the little boy that everyone loved. (684) I cant imagine anyone having an appetite after witnessing such an atrocity, but Juliek asked when the ceremony would be over because he was hungry.(683) Peter Maass in “Wild Beast” the poor mother and her two little children walking for forty-five days without proper rest and nutrition.(506) Muslim men being nailed to the door like Jesus and they were still alive, women having to cut their hair into a crew cut, smear their faces, and bind their breast to avoid being raped. (508,509) This is no way to live or to be treated. Sadly, many experienced these acts if cruelty at the hands of ones they knew. What has happened to natural affection?
In both essays what is said in these people behaved like those in Sodom and Gomorrah. There behavior is much like what is described in this statement “But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, head strong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion, but proving false to its power, an from these turn away.” ((New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, 2 Tim. 3:1-5) There was absolutely no natural affection, self control and no lover of goodness, and there was betrayal, because there were ones killing people they knew. Even if you dont have a Bible trained conscious, everyone knows the basic right and wrongs of life.
Sad to say genocide still exist within the 20th Century. In Cambodia, millions that were accustomed to city life were forced into slavery by Pol Pot in what he called his “killing fields”. People died from being overworked, malnutrition and disease. The people had only one tin of rice (180 grams) per