The Political Causes Of Genocide

Genocide never happens as a surprise. (It was cruelty that overtook them.) Genocide is always politics. Of course, there are political goal, but those political goals can be reached or achieved in different ways. Some people think that exterminating people or exterminating a group will help their goals, so that is why they do it (commit genocide). Genocide is something people do not like to talk about and genocides happen in every corner of the world, to every type of people. The numbers in the past 100 years are staggering. The Turks slaughtered more than a million Armenians during ww1. In the 1930-40s the Japanese killed millions across Asia. In the Soviet Union, the estimated number of deaths in the gulag camps and beyond is more than eight