👉 Courtesy: The Daily Kos, Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
What stops a genocide before or once it starts?
If it is the army conducting it, the government stepping in. If it is the government directing it, people of the country stepping in. If it is the…
👉 Courtesy: The Daily Kos, Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
What stops a genocide before or once it starts?
If it is the army conducting it, the government stepping in. If it is the government directing it, people of the country stepping in. If it is the government and the army precipitating it with the people merely turning away, then the international community—neighbours, world powers, the foremost union of governments in the world—stepping in by doing whatever they can from suspending trade and diplomatic relations to closing their borders for the perpetrators and holding the perpetrators to account.
However, our curse is that none of that happens. That is why a genocide becomes a genocide.
The people of the country and outside think that at best it is not their concern, that genocidal propaganda that leads to murder of ethnic groups and the murder itself are not their concern, that they could do nothing, or that speaking out may hurt them. So, they don’t. More often that, the people believe that those people undergoing genocide deserved it.
The government thinks much the same as does the army. They are after all the people in power who can commit a genocide in the first place. Who have authority and power and hatred. If it was one ethnic group attacking another, with the government having no stakes but peace, they could step in and the violence won’t turn into a genocide, will it?
The international community thinks, just like the people, that their own strategic relationship with the country or people in question matter more than ethics, lives of the persecuted group, or even international laws.
The United Nations dithered, ignored and bickered leaving Tigrayans without friends or support.
The countries of the world, from African Union, to the EU and the US continued friendly relations after brief pauses.
That is how Tigrayans were and continue to be subject to genocide.
There are always excuses after all.
Failure of people. Failure of government. Failure of international actors.
People excusing or justifying those failures.
That is how genocide came to be perpetrated against Tigrayans of Ethiopia.
