NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTION 4: Ethnic Conflicts

In many countries and many periods a person’s ethnic identity has had profound consequences for his or her physical safety, political status, and economic prospects. Violent confrontation along ethnic lines is the most apparent form of ethnic conflict, and it recently has claimed lives in such diverse places throughout the world. The three most terrible ethnic conflicts have been the conflict in Rwanda, in former Yugoslavia, and The Holocaust during World War II in Europe.

First of all, since 1994 were initiated violent clashes in Rwanda, the most visible have been fighting between Tutsi and Hutu conflict started because of the conflict between Hutu and Tutsi elite not to share power, to have in unique to the country's political reins. The conflict left between half and one million victims because of the massacres. Different countries around the world declared their opinion regarding this situation. While Bill Clinton recognized their responsibility and accountability of the international community in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. And said: "We need to all peoples of the world to devote our best efforts to maximize the chances of preventing such events and, when they cannot be prevented, act quickly to minimize the horror."

As Rwanda was these internal conflicts, countries such as Yugoslavia faced a similar situation, but this time was among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mainly Serbs, Bosnians and Albanians. The conflict was due to political, economic and cultural. Just as religious and ethnic tension. The effects of these conflicts were poverty, massive economic disruption and persistent instability in the territories where the worst fighting occurred.

As well as Rwanda and Yugoslavia, the Holocaust left to much mess and destruction at German in the World War II. The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder, bureaucratically organized and sponsored by the State of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Between 1942 and 1944, the Nazis deported millions of Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they were executed in facilities designed specifically for it. The German Nazis forced the Jews to forced labor for the German government, and to wear badges that marked them as Jews. Los crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and totally eliminated hundreds of communities Jews in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe.

Ethnic conflicts such as in Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, and The Holocaust during World War II triggered the worst feelings a human being can have. Any country or society can go through such terrors. Different religion, race, and beliefs are not good reasons to kill each other. It depends on new generations not to repeat the terrible crimes against

Works Cited UNICEF. 10 de Junio 2010: www.unicef.org/spanish/.../rwanda_20245.html. Spanish International Cooperation Agency: http://escolapau.uab.cat/img/programas/rehabilitacion/paises/06rwan.pdf The Holocaust Encyclopedia: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/es/article.php?ModuleId=10005751