Ending the WarIt is on the genocide in Rwanda and what should be done to stop
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Ending the War
The term genocide seems to be thrown around with no one really having a true understanding to what it means. In the book, Crisis in Rwanda, the UN defines genocide from Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948). "Genocide includes any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole of in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such: a. killing members of the group; b. causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group; c. deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d. imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e. forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."(Freeman, 26) There is a serious issue of genocide in the country of Rwanda. The genocide started in 1994 due to the death of the Rwandan president...