“About 39,000,000 people, including Jews in the Holocaust, were killed in genocide throughout the world (University of Hawaii system). Genocide is murdering groups of people with the single goal of extinguishing a certain nation or group, based on personal opinions of them. Genocide causes a significant amount of harm and despair to populations. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust, a big genocide in history. He uses his experiences to show the effects of genocide throughout his book, Night. Wiesel advocates how the world should never forget the suffering and humiliation those had to experience during the Holocaust, to prevent the past from repeating itself. To prevent the same terrible mistakes from being made again, the world needs to understand …show more content…
The immense brutality those were faced with during the Holocaust, left most with such deep scarring and trauma, still plays an ongoing role in their lives, even now, 77 years after it has ended. Although the Holocaust has ended, the devastating effects of genocide are still shown and taking place throughout several other parts of the world, the Rwandan genocide being one of them. The Rwandan genocide was a huge massacre of over 800,000 people. During this time, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis (14% of Rwandan population) were being attacked by the Hutus (85% of Rwandan population) as the Hutus felt they were being discriminated against and that the Tutsis were being favored by the Belgian government. This being said, the Hutus decided to take action and rebel against them, causing an exploding massacre across Rwanda. “The mass killings in Kigali quickly spread from that city to the rest of Rwanda” (History.com). The article, Rwandan Genocide, tells how slaughter began spreading all across Rwanda, leaving it in a state of constant turmoil. “Officials reward killers with food, drinks, drugs and money”