Genocide

We tend to think of genocide in terms of something that was, a has-been... Nazi Germans killed more than six million Jews during World War II. We all condemn it and say that we must never let it happen again. And yet it has and it happens today as well...

History repeats itself for even the saddest events of humanity. According to Secretary Gen. of the UN Kofi Annan, in his speech to the UN General Assembly on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp:

"The world has, to its shame, failed more than once to prevent or halt genocide - for instance in Cambodia, in Rwanda, and in the former Yugoslavia," Mr Annan said.

He warned "terrible things" were happening now in Sudan's western region of Darfur, and action was needed.

Is genocide just the symptom of a larger problem? As long as poverty, prejudice, racism and religious fundementalism exist we are not guaranteed that we won't witness another genocide in humanity.