83,000,000 million people are estimated to have been killed in the 20th century alone from genocide. The word genocide evokes images of crude weapons and menacing faces, bent soley on the destruction of another race, ethnicity or religion. And often that is what occurs. Genocides are tragic and grossly foolish because they stem from reasons people can do little about. Currently, Darfur, Sudan and Northern Uganda are suffering from genocides, with death tolls soaring and the resulting crisis of internally displaces persons escalating daily. Shortly after the Rwandan Genocide commenced, which would culminate in 1,000,000 unnecesarry deaths, the late president of Burundi said , "How lon...

83,000,000 million people are estimated to have been killed in the 20th century alone from genocide. The word genocide evokes images of crude weapons and menacing faces, bent soley on the destruction of another race, ethnicity or religion. And often that is what occurs.

Genocides are tragic and grossly foolish because they stem from reasons people can do little about. Currently, Darfur, Sudan and Northern Uganda are suffering from genocides, with death tolls soaring and the resulting crisis of internally displaces persons escalating daily.

Shortly after the Rwandan Genocide commenced, which would culminate in 1,000,000 unnecesarry deaths, the late president of Burundi said , "How long is blood going to flow in this country? What do you gain when you start killing and shedding blood? Can you drink it? Can you make bricks from it? Who has ever benefited from blood running in the streets?"

Yet even after the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge, and the Killing Fields of Cambodia, Genocides rage on, with little force to thrwart the massive killing campaings.

What quiet genocides are mercilessly devouring lives and lands right now, and what can we do to stop them? Our voices have more impact than we know, and the worst thing someone can do, is to do nothing.

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