Title: READ: Why Does Genocide Still Happen (article) | Khan Academy
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: In the many decades since, genocide and mass violence have played out again, and again. Why? Never again
Historian Samuel Moyn has called human rights the "moral lingua franca" of the international community. That is, all countries speak the language of human rights. As you've read, the international horror at Nazi atrocities during World War II is what many historians say led to the rise of human rights. As knowledge of the Holocaust spread, the world promised, "never again." In the decades since the Holocaust, our species has walked on the moon and created the internet, yet we've made no progress stopping genocide. The military in Myanmar is—at the time of this writing in 2019—committing genocide against the Rohingya people, a Muslim minority in that country. Since World War II, in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and many other places, people have committed genocide and mass violence against civilians. Why does genocide still happen?