Ethnic Conflicts

In many countries and many periods a person’s ethnic identity has had profound consequences for his or her physical safety, political status, and economic prospects. Violent confrontation along ethnic lines is the most apparent form of ethnic conflict, and it recently has claimed lives in such diverse places throughout the world. The three most terrible ethnic conflicts have been the conflict in Rwanda, the Arab-Israeli crisis, and The Holocaust during World War II.
One important ethnic conflict was the Hutu and the Tutsi conflict in Rwanda. There are two major ethnic groups in this African country: the Hutu and the Tutsi. When the country was colonized by the Belgians in 1916 they claimed that the Tutsi were superior to the Hutu based on the idea that their skins were lighter and their features more European. As a result, The Hutus suffered years of repression by the Tutsi. In 1994, the Hutus took revenge. Tutsi people were slaughtered, hunted out of their homes, killed with guns or machetes and left to die on the road by unofficial militia group called the Interahamwe (‘those who attack together’) and Hutu civilians were forced to murder their neighbors and children were not spared in an insane effort to wipe out the next Tutsi generation. Over 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.
The other important confict we know about is the Arab-Israeli crisis. The conflict Arab-Israeli is that one between the State of Israel and his Arabic neighbors, especially the Palestinians. The possible solutions are a matter of permanent debate, and the problems that it includes change with the time. now a days, the principal questions are the sovereignty of the Gaza strip and West Bank, the eventual formation of a Palestinian State in the above mentioned areas, the status of the oriental part of Jerusalem, of the Golan Heights and of Shebaa's Farms, the destination of the Israeli accessions and of the Palestinian refugees, Israel's recognition and Palestine and of his right to exist and live in peace sheltered by threats and acts of force, as well as Israel's relation with Syria and the Lebanon. Nowadays Israel has in force agreements of peace with Egypt and Jordan that they guarantee his pacific conviviality.
Amd finally, but not less important the jewish holocaust. This conflic happened in the IIWW because of the germany hate to all the ones they belived were different and inperects. They wanted to create a superior race, according to their bauty and perfection standar, and of course, jewish, gays and black people, weren`t abñe to be part of this that they called perfection.
Ethnic conflicts such as in Rwanda, the Arab-Israeli crisis, and The Holocaust during World War II triggered the worst feelings a human being can have. Any country or society can go through such terrors. Different religion, race, and beliefs are not good reasons to kill each other. It depends on new generations not to repeat the terrible crimes against humanity committed in different times and places.


Works cited: conflicto Àrabe- Israelí, seached in: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicto_%C3%A1rabe-israel%C3%AD