The cartoon explains that the United Nations declared that the world will not engage in war. The world will not accept armed conflict. "It is absolutely unacceptable" ("Michael Sudsy Sutherland cartoon"). However in truth the United Nations created global conflict and did not prevent genocide. The cartoon shows the United Nations as a leader standing in front of the world and all the countries are dead because the united nations failed in preventing genocide and global conflict. After 1945 the United Nations did nothing to prevent genocide. "Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places Such as Cambodia, Bosnia, And Rwanda, and the world one again took too long to act" ("Allyson Schwartz Quote").
During World War II the Jewish Holocaust happened because of Adolf Hitler the leader of the Nazi party. In 1935 the Nazis placed severe restrictions on Jews. The Nazis physically abused the Jews. Hitler suspended civil rights and banned all political parties. Hitler's "Final Solution" was extermination of all Jews. Jews were sent to force labor camps and to gas
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chambers causing mass genocide. Allies librated German camps and defeated the Nazis which would result in end for the Holocaust. ("A Brief Holocaust Summary"). Hitler believed he was propelling Germany and the world forward by getting rid of the non Aryans from the world. The Cambodian genocide happened because of Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge. In 1975 Pol Pot wanted to transform Cambodia into a communist society. The way he did this was by getting rid of professionals and educated middle class people. He wanted to revolutionize Cambodian society. They were brutal murderers. All political and civil rights were abolished. Children were taken from their parents and forced labor camps. Any person with an occupation was murdered. Religion was band. Pol Pot wanted to send Cambodia back in time (The CGP, 1994 2015"). Cambodian genocide ended because Vietnam invaded Cambodia and stopped the genocide("South East Asia After the War"). The similarities between the two genocides is that leaders took complete control of people, used forced labor camps, burned down religious temples, and executed thousands of people including men, woman, and children.
There were also dictators in both genocides who wanted an ethnically pure nation and used propaganda to succeed in their goals. Pol Pot and Hitler prosecuted any person that was religious or had anything to do with religion. Cambodia and Germany both had many death camps during their genocides. Also destroyed property that was linked to religion. The living conditions during the genocides were crowded, cramped, and terrible. There were many mass executions and mass graves. people were tortured in horrifying ways in Cambodia and Germany. Most people died from either overwork, shootings, malnutrition, starvation, injury, and disease ("Compare and
Contrast"). Genocide has happened so many times that in the last fifty years the concept "Never Again" is in fact "Again and Again" ("Front Line"). Although after the holocaust happened, the world swore that there wouldn't be a genocide again, there has been many genocides and mass killings. One of the reasons why genocides continue to happen is because convention on the prevention and punishment of genocide, Convention on the Prevention came into effect as a result of the Holocaust ("The Holocaust Explained"). Genocides occur when one group or nation is motivated to hate and want to wipe out another nation. Helen Fein identifies four main motivations behind genocides ("Center on Law and Globalization"). The first one is "Eliminate a real or potential threat ". This means that if one group or nation believes that there existence is in jeopardy from another group or nation they only have one choice and that is to destroy that specific nation ("we have to get them before they get us" attitude). Another way she says motivates genocide is through an economic way, "To acquire economic wealth". This means that if a nation stands in the way of another nations economic progress then it would make sense that the nation would want to destroy them. At the end of the day the Cambodian genocide and Holocaust were a big part in history and taught to the world many important ideas. Genocides were a big problem in the past and still is a problem for us today. We have to learn from our mistakes knowing that if we don't it can cause another big genocide.
The Holocaust could be best described as the widespread genocide of over eleven million Jews and other undesirables throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. It all began when Adolf Hitler, Germany's newest leader, enforced the Nuremburg Race Laws. These laws discriminated against Jews and other undesirables and segregated them from the rest of the population. As things grew worse, Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing. The laws even stripped them of their citizenship.
Adolf Hitler came into power of Germany in 1934. Wanting power, land and revenge, Hitler gets troops ready to attack. Hitler was a troop in WWI for Germany. Once the Germans lost the war, Hitler took that personally, and wanted revenge. After coming into power with his army of Nazis, Hitler is quick to blame Jewish people for all the harsh debt and corruption in Germany. The Germans believe him, causing them to hate Jewish people. The holocaust happened throughout 1933-1945, it ended when Hitler killed himself.
Although the two genocides are quite different at a first glance, they are interestingly similar upon deeper inspection. For starters, the Holocaust is best known for it’s brutal and inhumane treatment of prisoners, such as tattooing a number on their arm against their will and feeding them food that is not even fit for dogs to consume (“Holocaust”). It may be shocking for some people to hear that in Cambodia, it was just as atrocious, maybe even worse. During the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1975 most Cambodians were forced to leave their homes on such short notice that numerous families were killed on cite for not evacuating quickly enough. Those ‘lucky’ enough to escape immediate death were forced to work, unpaid, in labor camps until the fatigue wore down their immune system and they died of some wretched disease (“Genocide”). Another intriguing similarity betw...
These genocides are also similar in many ways, two of which are their government overthrows and who they killed. The Cambodian Genocide and the Holocaust are unique in the areas of reason and aftermath. Hitler wanted to create a “Master Race” (“Holocaust”). He also wanted to exterminate the Jewish population because he believed they “hindered” population growth (“Some”).... ...
The United Nations was formed on October 24, 1945, after the Holocaust, to prevent genocide from ever happening again. A cartoon depicted by Michael Sutherland illustrates the unsuccessful intent of the United Nations. The United Nations is pictured standing over the graves of countries and groups that have suffered from genocide. However, many genocides have taken place since the formation of the United Nations (i.e. the Bosnian genocide). Both genocides began as simple misconceptions or dislikes between peoples but ended in tragic and unnecessary murder.
It’s hard to imagine that people would support and act upon plans to kill millions of innocent human beings. The Holocaust and Cambodian genocide were two of the most horrific genocides in the history of civilization. The Holocaust and Cambodian genocide have not only similarities but also differences. How they treated their victims, USA involvement, and that they both killed millions of people are some things they share. Differences they include are the people they targeted, how the two leaders took office and lastly where these genocides took place.
During the summer of 1941, Chancellor Adolf Hitler initialized “The Final Solution'; to the “Jewish Question';. Hitler started this program because he wanted to create a highly centralized state and one for the master race, Germans. Exterminating Jews was, for Hitler, the only way to create a perfect Germany because it would eliminate the ‘malignant tumors’, the race that caused Germany to lose World War One. Hitler’s decision to start exterminating Jews changed the course of history. In the end, over 6,000,000 Jews were killed and a Jewish state known as Israel, evolved.
There are many factors which lead to the Holocaust, however anti-Semitism was the greatest cause of the conflict. Anti-Semitism is the common name for anti Jewish sentiments. During Hitler was in power, anti-Semitism was used by the Nazis too carry out the Endlosung, which means “final solution to the Jewish Question” (“The Roots of the Holocaust”). However, anti-Semitism was not something that was created by Germany. Through centuries, Jews were a persecuted people. Jews have faced heavy discrimination throughout the Middle Ages, 1800s and mid early 1900s.
The Jewish people were targeted, hunted, tortured, and killed, just for being Jewish, Hitler came to office on January 20, 1933; he believed that the German race had superiority over the Jews in Germany. The Jewish peoples’ lives were destroyed; they were treated inhumanly for the next 12 years, “Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews” (Levy). Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff).
The word genocide was derived from the Greek root genos (people) and the Latin root cide (killing), and did not exist in the English language until 1944, which was the end of World War II (Power). According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” Such violence occurred during the Holocaust and during the separation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The problems of ethnic cleansing and repression have become so prevalent in the last century that they have contributed to two world wars, over fourteen million deaths, and a new word. United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, said, “Far from being consigned to history, genocide and its ilk remain a serious threat. Not just vigilance but a willingness to act are as important today as ever.”
Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali once said, "We were not realizing that with just a machete, you can do a genocide." To be candid, nobody anticipated the Rwandan Genocide that occurred in 1994. The genocide in Rwanda was an infamous blood-red blur in modern history where almost a million innocent people were murdered in cold blood. Members of the Tutsi tribe were systematically hacked or beaten to death by members of the Interahamwe, a militia made up of Hutu tribe members. In just 100 days, from April 6, 1994 to mid-July, 20% of Rwanda's population was killed; about 10,000 people a day. Bodies literally were strewn over city streets. Genocide obviously violates almost all articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; however, the article I find most important is Article 3 - the right to life, liberty, and personal security. In just 100 days, one million people were denied the most basic privilege granted to every human – the right to live, simply because they were born to the wrong tribe.
The Jewish people kept getting one thing after another taken away from them because Hitler wanted to make them feel like they are not human. All of the laws passed leading up to the Night of the Broken kept increasing Hitler's power and ability to persecute the Jews because there was little reaction to his actions; the violence and persecution increased leading to the final solution because of this indifference.
The United Nations not only performs peacekeeping activities and delivers humanitarian aid to distant countries, but it has a direct influence on all of our lives, every person everywhere in the world. The UN protects human rights, promotes protection of the environment, helps the advancement of women and children rights, battles epidemics, hunger, and poverty. Throughout the world the UN helps refugees, helps improve telecommunications, delivers food aid, protects consumers, make loans to developing countries and helps stabilize finanicial markets.
...ractices of other branches of power that the UN cannot grasp upon. In contrast, the virtues of the UN remain undeniably consistent throughout history, but the powers and legislative action the organization fluctuates due to the constant uprising of conflict. However, throughout the history of the 20th century and post Cold – War conflict, the organization's extensiveness has increased, such through the actions of the Non-proliferation treaty of nuclear weapons, and the ongoing tasks of UN Peacekeeping missions. These actions reflected upon the UN fiasco of the Cold War, demonstrate the emerging “politico-economic” society, by laying a prodigious impact of the world via its numerous stretches of the organization.
Kofi Annan’s life experiences that influenced him to work for the UN started when he went to a Methodist Boarding school, he was taught that "suffering anywhere concerns people everywhere." He then went on to study at four different colleges and got a masters degree in International Relations. He got a job with the UN as a budget official, and slowly worked his way up. For 9 years, he was an assistant Secretary General for 3 different organizations. While doing so, the Rwandan Genocide took place, and Annan was highly criticized for the way he handled it. He took responsibility for his actions. This lead to him finally being voted in to be the new Secretary-General, where he stayed for 10 years.