Critical Reflection, Essay Example

Genocide can be described as part of a continuum, which is often experienced by collaborators, perpetrators, bystanders including victims themselves. Genocide is socially incremental. What drives this continuum is oppression politics that manifests itself through systematic control of a community’s bodies marked as inferior, foreign or other. In America, genocide is defined as the commission of any of the acts below committed with the intention of destroying, wholly or partly, a national, ethnical, religious or racial group. This leads to grave mental or bodily harm to the group members; murdering the group members; intentionally imposing life conditions on the group intended to ensure the group’s complete destruction, or partial destruction; enforcing measures with an intention of preventing the group from giving birth and transferring the group’s children to another group.

Around one million human beings perished in the Rwandan genocide in several localities within Cyangugu, Butare, Nyarubuye, Kigali, and Kabgaye. Civilians, women, men, and children were speared, clubbed, shot or hacked into pieces in courtyards and church compounds. The planned total destruction of people is what gave killings in Rwanda a genocidal feature. Rwanda’s agonies are not civil war agonies but of a carnage which was organized and orchestrated from above. Anyone, whose ethnic identity, political affiliation or physical appearance presents grounds of supposed sympathy for the Rwandese Patriotic Front (FPR), provides a good ground for ethnic cleansing. After Burundi’s Hutu, it is now Tutsi of Rwanda’s turn to claim a martyred community status. When America was asked for intervention, it stated that there traditional commitment to free speech could not be reconciled with a measure as such, on this occasion.

A quarter million persons have possibly perished in Darfur, western Sudan, in ethnic conflict. In this case, the government of America passionately criticizes genocide. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), almost five million people have perished since 1994 in massacres sponsored by the state and ethnic massacres. The American administration has not denounced this. A death toll of human beings, which is almost the same as Nazi’s total destruction of Jews in the Second World War, happens without the superpower complaining at all. It is evident and apparent that in Sudan’s case, America has geopolitical nemesis of confronting their Chinese business associates and Arabs. In Congo, American allies and American and European business interests gain from the slaughter. Thus, regardless of over five million skeletons of dead people buried in the ground, the American government has not called for a break in fighting. This is for the reasons that America set the Congo genocide in motion.

The life of George Makoko turned from his early peaceful life within a mountainous village in south Kivu Province of Congo, with his family to a life of genocide taking place in Congo and Rwanda. Makoko was the first person to go to school in his family, and he finally moved to the city to continue with his studies. Soon he is discriminated against, and he is faced with a situation which is more dangerous, which is a civil war involving the government of Hutus in Rwanda and the rebel movement of Tutsis called the Rwandese Patriotic Front, adding to the detestation of the tribe of Makoko in Congo. The war escalates and military and political activities go on adding conflict to the area, hence having disastrous results for the tribe members of Tutsi. The life of Makoko is changed by an opportunity, which was not expected, as he visits America later to seek asylum. Makoko, in his memoir, calls on the international community to put an end to the killings taking place.

The We Charge Genocide Petition presented to the United Nations by Civil Rights Congress (CRC) in 1951 gives an explanation of how oppressed American Negro Citizens, are discriminated against, segregated, and long targeted for violence, undergoing through suffering caused by genocide as a result of the conscious, unified and consistent policies of each government branch. This includes many unjust executions and lynching, more than 10,000 cases that have not been documented, and America being charged with engaging in a scheme against the ability of African Americans to vote through literacy tests and poll taxes. The government of America is responsible for genocide, by endorsing both “monopoly capitalism” and racism, based on the events occurring after the year 1945.

The book “From Superman to Man” written by Joel Augustus Rogers is a book describing ignorance that leads to racism. The main plot is based on a debate between a white racist politician of the South and Pullman Porter. Rogers made use of this debate to express several of his individual philosophies and to expose stereotypes about the blacks and superiority of the white race. Rogers deals with issues like the lack of a scientific theory supporting the issue of race, the lack of history of blacks being narrated from the perspective of a black person, and the fact of people intermarrying and people being in union with each other throughout history.

It is clear that genocide acts committed against people of African origin in Rwanda, other countries in Africa and America are an indication of America’s big role in the genocides and how its benefits. There should be an establishment of international responsibility of saving millions of African victims from genocide around the world. As there was a movement to abolish slavery in the nineteenth century, let us turn the twenty-first century into a century of abolishing genocide. As slavery is brought about by human will, genocide is also brought about by human will. Human is also capable of ending genocide.