Genocide: The big picture

After shifting through the blogs of several other students, the reasons for why genocide still happens today is clearer. Genocide usually happens due to a struggle for power fueled by religious differences. However, though these are the main causes for genocide, it can only happen because we let it happen. No one wants to get involved with mass killings because of the likely hood of losing lives to the conflict, and the potential political back lash. In Srebrenica, the UN could not get to involved with the struggle because of the fear of losing their own troops and all they could do was declare a demilitarized zone, which did nothing to stop the execution of some 8,000 people. Again in Rwanda, the UN withdrew from the power struggle between the Hutu and the Tutsi because of Casualties. It is unlikely that genocide will ever end due to the want of power, and the failure to commit to putting an end to it.