In a country where we can often here heartfelt complaints regarding the interruption of television broadcasts and truly crushing problems such as whether or not we can make that light before it turns yellow, it seems difficult to believe that there are those in the world who must fight for their lives each and every ...
COMMENTARY | Some of you may know a little world history or at least remember the history surrounding the Holocaust during WWII. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and started ending rights for the Jewish people. It ended in bloodshed, murder, the escape and freeing of Jews at concentration ...
Starting in 1991, 46 years after the Holocaust in Nazi Germany was revealed to the world, ethnic cleansing happened again in Bosnia. This was after people vowed for genocide to never happen again. Unfortunately, humanity had not changed. As George Santayana said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The purpose ...
Due to the actions of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, almost one-fourth of the country’s population died while many more Cambodians became refugees. The refugees fled to other Asian countries at first, but many of them eventually journeyed to the United States. The United States needed to “rescue” these refugees because many of them were ...
Three days ago, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, president of Sudan, was charged with the the horrifying crime of genocide, by the International Criminal Court. The problem with this, is that either no one really cares, or the global community is so stuck in its own problems, that it does not have the capacity to enforce ...
Omar al-Bashir is the current president of the African country of Sudan. He has been the president through the end of the Sudanese civil war and the entirety of the Darfur conflict. Omar al-Bashir is suspected of precipitating war crimes in Darfur, Sudan, including genocide. Omar al-Bashir was born on January 1, 1944 in Sudan. ...
