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Headings: READ: Why Does Genocide Still Happen
READ: Why Does Genocide Still Happen
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Why Does Genocide Still Happen?
Never again
Cambodia and Iraq: genocide during the Cold War
Bosnia and Rwanda: American indifference after the Cold War
Darfur and Rakhine: genocide in the twenty-first century
Conclusion: again, and again
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Content: You've read about the Armenian genocide in the early twentieth century. But in the second half of the twentieth century, the international community reaffirmed "the dignity and worth of the human person" in the United Nations Charter. The UN passed a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for the Crime of Genocide in 1948. But it was not enforced until 50 years later, when the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda tried those responsible for the Rwandan genocide. Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Sudan, and Myanmar were all party to the convention while genocides occurred within their borders. Cambodia and Iraq: genocide during the Cold War
In 1975, the Cambodian Khmer Rouge military government killed 1.7 million people—21 percent of the country's population. Political Scientist Karl D. Jackson claims that the Cambodian genocide was "the greatest per capita loss of life in a single nation in the twentieth century." States participating in the Genocide Convention. By Allstar86, CC BY-SA 3.0.