Genocide is murder.
It is an inhumane action against humanity.
The aim of Genocide is to extinct a nation, culture, race or religion. Scholars and academics have argued relentlessly over the precise meaning of genocide.
One of the history's bloodiest genocide took place in World WarII. The genocide against the Jews in Europe, started by Adolf Hitler.
Adolf Hitler believed that Jews in Germany and other parts of Europe would only weaken the country.
Thus, he initiated a plan to get rid of the Jews.
They were first told to be uprooted for resettlement, then deported to camps for larbour work and execution without the knowing by a special group of German soldiers called Einsatzgruppen.
Men, women and children were then divided into 2 seperate groups.
The women and children would then be taken to death camps for execution like the gas chambers(the gas was carbon monoxide), while men were taken to larbour camps to work for the Nazis by doing the dirty work like clearing the bodies of woman and children killed.
A Jew, Filip Mueller who worked in Aushwitz recounted,"Everyday we saw thousands and thousands of innocent people disappear up the chimney. There they came, men, woman and children, all innocent. They suddenly vanished and the world said nothing! We felt abandoned. By the world, by humanity."- genocide, Brendan Janurary
Those who were not killed would then be taken over by malnutrition, hunger and diseases eventually.
in 1945, the Allies invaded Germany and fred the Jews ffrom the camps.
During this process called the Holocaust, approximately 6million Jews died. That's more than the popuation in Singapore.
When the war was over, photos of death camps came out on newspaper. People who saw them would not believe that this was happening, labeling these actions as "impossible".
But it happened, and Hitler really did commit those acts against humanity.
(note: Hitler commited suicide 3 days beofre the war ended.)
Survivors of the war such a Don Lewi wrote in a letter to his sister in Palestine,"I realise that you, over there, cannot imagine even in a hundredth partv of the suffering, fear, humiliation, and every kind of bullying that we lived through. People who lived and think as normal people cannot possibly understand."- genocide, brendan january.
Pictures of Holocaust.
Prevent this inhumane act against humanity.
The latest genocide just ended in 1995, a war between the Serbs and Bosnian Muslims.
Stop genocide.