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Why Does Genocide Still Happen?
By Bennett Sherry
Genocide continues to happen worldwide, even after the Holocaust.
The world vowed to never again permit the crime of genocide. Why
does mass violence play out again, and again?
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Why Does Genocide Still Happen?
Never Again
Historian Samuel Moyn has called human rights the “moral lingua franca” of the international community. That is, all
countries speak the language of human rights. As you’ve read, the international horror at Nazi brutality during World
War II led to the rise of human rights. As knowledge of the Holocaust spread, the world promised, “never again.”
Since the Holocaust, we have walked on the moon and created the internet, yet we’ve made no progress stopping
genocide. As of 2019, the Myanmar military is committing genocide against the Muslim Rohingya people, a minority
Myanmar. Since World War II, in Cambodia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur, and many other places, people have
committed genocide and mass violence against innocent civilians. Why does genocide still happen?
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