reflection 12

I find it baffling that someone could honestly believe that they should hold the power of a group of people. Sometimes people just get really full of themselves and whatever theories they believe to be true. No man deserves the position to essential play God and decide who stays and who goes. In fact, it is as if people feel that God has somehow made a mistake and placed people on His earth that shouldn't be here and it's their job to correct it. In my eyes genocide and ethnic cleansing are blasphemy. According to an article though genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people and ethnic cleansing is the removal of an unwanted group from the society. The situations in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur are similar because in Darfur the government had mass killings against all non-Arabs in the Western Sudan, in Bosnia the Muslim population was killed because they were not liked by the military in charge, and the Tusti population was wiped out completely in Rwanda. Prior to my readings I didn't really know anything about these situations; I had only hear about them in passing. Its strange because you would think that massing killings, whether you want to call them genocides or ethnic cleansing, would make the news. I would expect something on this level to be included in all faucets of society. I know this isn't politically correct but I do feel like the reason those situations didn't receive a great deal of media coverage is because the occurred in Africa. I believe if we educate the world about occurrences like the ones that happened in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur then the likelihood of them happening again would be greatly reduced. Its impossible to turn a blind eye to anything and expect it to go away, especially when innocent human lives are at stake. Education is the only solution. Its sad but I feel that, even in the twenty-first century, people need education in how to successfully deal with others. Its not fair that only those who are interested in teaching as a career get to be taught human diversity. Accepting diversity is not something that comes natural and apparently its not being taught inside people's homes. Hopefully something is done so a situation like genocide or ethnic cleansing is stopped in Arizona.