Genocide Reflection

Anne Frank was a girl who was hiding from the Germans during the Holocaust. After two years of hiding, she was killed and we know what her life was like because we have her diary. Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust was the killing of people with Jewish heritage by the Germans. After being exposed to multiple perspectives my understanding of genocide has changed because, I now know that there are more than one cause of genocide, how the support of other countries and their leaders have affected the victims of genocide, and how some stories can help you understand how it was like living during genocide.

My understanding of genocide has changed because I now know that there are more than one cause of genocides. In The Rwandan Genocide,

In Pope Francis disappoints Rohingya by Failing to Condemn Persecution the author states, “Francis is nearing the end of a four day trip to Myanmar, previously known as Burma, in which he has not publicly spoken about the persecuted Muslim minority, more than 620,000 of whom have fled to Bangladesh in recent months from what western leaders are calling ethnic cleansing”(Poopy Mcpherson). This shows that the western leaders are calling the genocide ethnic cleansing while the pope was there he failed to acknowledge the killing of the Muslim minority. Another entry from Pope Francis Disappoints Rohingya by Failing to Condemn Persecution the author states, “ ‘we think healing can come from anger and revenge,’ Francis said speaking of the many ‘wounded’ people in Myanmar: ‘Yet the way of revenge is not the way of Jesus,’ he said”( Poppy Mcpherson). These two entries show that the pope did not directly acknowledge what was happening in Myanmar so this shows that the pope does not give his full support to the