It's back in fashion to talk about the horrors of genocide this year, so I will take the chance to say something that has been bothering me for some time. When are we going to stop letting politics be more important than human life? When will we stand up and say wrong is wrong and we have to act to stop evil from spreading? Genocide is hardly a new concept but for the sake of familiarity I will discuss only the two most recent American Presidents and their dealings with genocide.
Bill Clinton refused to call the Rwanda "crisis" a genocide. Instead he said that there were "acts of genocide." Bull. These weren't a few acts of genocide, it was the systemic slaughter of one tribe by another because of hate. And Clinton failed us morally to not stand up to Rwanda before it became the disaster that it grew to. He also failed miserably in dealing with Bosnia. The world's willingness to wait until it was too late cost untold suffering not only among those being murdered but also those who paid with a ruined homeland because of our bombing runs. Now President Bush has likewise allowed the situation in Sudan to grow almost beyond salvation. Despite various group's pleas for help years ago, the world has sat by and done nothing. And Bush still refuses to call the situation genocide. We're looking at a situation that is "nearly" genocide. But apparently not quite.
Must we sit by and watch as people suffer because their country doesn't fit into our overall political plan? At what point does it truly become genocide and worthy of the world's aid and, dare I say, worthy of the world's action? As a country of freedom loving people who claim to believe in a just God above, it is time that we stop allowing suffering like this to continue. We must call the murder and extinction of a people-group exactly what it is, genocide. And we must act to stop it in all parts of the world.
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