 Re: I really dont care about Darfur
No, the genocides we care about happened outside of Africa. take a look at Africa since WWII. Far more attrocities then just Rwanda.
Also, all of those genocides you listed ended. Because they had a purpose, even if it was horriyfing. Stalin and Pol Pot needed to purge society to recreate it in their revolutions image, Hitler wanted to destroy what he saw as a threat to the purity of his race, the Turks destroyed a threat to the cohesion of their burgeoning nation. Once Ukraine submitted Stalin stopped. Once Hitler killed all the Jews, he would have stopped. Once Turkey established itself as a functioning Western style nation, it stopped. I will admit that Pol Pot may not have stopped without the Vietnamese invasion.
The Africans massacre each other not because authorities have some great and terrible plan for society, but because they lack society. Society is a tool, and it can be used for great evil, but as Africa shows us, Hobbes was right- without government life is nasty, brutish and short.
I have no confidence that Africa will ever develop the kind of society's which possess the kind of authority to stop what has gone on in the past. |