Beyond The Holocaust: The Bosnian Genocide

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Genocide Beyond the Holocaust
According to R.J Rummel, of the University of Hawaii, Genocide (in its killing aspect) is…a type of democide that involves the government murder of people because of their ethnicity, race, religion, language, or nationality. We are all aware of the horrendous crimes against the Jews of Europe known as the Holocaust. But why so? What of the mass killings of Bosnians, Cambodians, and Rwandans that have gone unnoticed by the public eye. This unfortunately is due to the way the world has responded to the crimes against these victims of genocide, which for Bosnia, Rwanda, and Cambodia was very little and nearly non-existent. While the Holocaust has been viewed as a horrendous crime against humanity, other crimes of …show more content…
“During the 1990s a number of ethnic conflicts took place in Yugoslavia among the six nations that lived there, which led to the fall of Yugoslavia, and in turn caused Serbia to take a firm hold on Bosnia.” (CMA 2) In the course of the Bosnian War, approximately 100,000 people were murdered through a process of “ethnic cleansing” as for Serbia to continue its hold power over Bosnia. As was with the Cambodian genocide, the Bosnian genocide was pushed to the side during its most critical times. Very little was done by the international community as far as aiding the Bosnians and the Croats. Bosnia’s war was actually hidden by the world media, and world public opinion criticized the actions of the Serbs., though justice was served by an international force later on against the …show more content…
Hutu militias managed to murder a total of 800,000 Rwandans, most of whom were Tutsis, in less than 100 days. Though the United Nations had peacekeepers deployed in Bosnia, very little else was done to further aid the country. The UN Security Council prevented its troops from getting involved in the war in Bosnia.
With each of these countries, there seems to be a distinct and reoccurring pattern involving their traumatic experiences as countries. Unlike the holocaust, they have not had aid from their international comrades when it was needed most nor did these countries have any recognition for their unjustified suffering. Could these two factors of war, international response and recognition, be correlated? Were these countries ignored because they were poor, small, and insignificant? Because they had no riches? Because helping them would have no benefits for the countries that helped them? To these countries, it would seem so. In fact, it seems to boil down to an important rule of everyday life. Popularity really does have its
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