The social contract outlines the responsibility of a government to keep their citizenry safe and healthy within reasonable measures.
The social contract outlines the responsibility of a government to keep their citizenry safe and healthy within reasonable measures.
It seems as if every speech has already been given and every opportunity has already presented itself to urge solutions to these problems.
Naming genocide something else does not make a difference to the victims. Indeed, why anyone would want to re-label a crime against humanity?
Despite the EU and the US confirming this fact, the Canadian government has resisted calling the atrocities taking place in Syria and Iraq a genocide.
Many leaders who are currently in power were decision makers during the time the events of the Rwandan genocide unfolded. Despite peacekeepers showing evidence of what was occurring and Western leaders having full knowledge of the genocide, next to nothing was done to stop the violence.
With atrocities taking place in Iraq and Syria, the international community must stop the oppression against certain groups. Indeed, the lesson of Rwanda has been almost entirely ignored in 2015.
Rwanda will always be remembered as a genocide that came from the failure of the international community to act.