Works cited

Bradshaw, J. (2012, March 9). How Obama should stop Kony. Tumer. Retrieved March 15, 2012, from http://articles.cnn.com/2012-03-09/opinion/opinion_bradshaw-benner-kony_1_ugandan-army-joseph-kony-lord-s-resistance-army?_s=PM:OPINION

Hawes, A. (2012, March 15). African Experts: Stop Knoy? Not so fast. The Root. Retrieved March 15, 2008, from http://www.theroot.com/views/stop-kony-not-so-fast-say-african-experts-0

What the Leaders Were Like

                Joseph Kony is a brutal thug who has killed, raped, and terrorized children for decades. Joseph Kony said himself that his death would be a mystery just as Hitler’s was. He also said that someday the world will wake up and find that he is dead and that no one will know the circumstances, no one will know the day that he dies or the day that he will be buried. He supposedly has direct contact with divine powers and has 12 spirits that he takes orders from. He has also predicted many things that have happened. He may be the most wanted man in the world.

                In a way Hitler and Kony are very alike and very different. They both terrorized people and used fear to keep there power. Kony as said himself that he will die like Hitler and no one will know about or why he has died. They both had their own beliefs were Hitler thought that people with blonde hair blue eyes were the only people that should be allowed to live while Kony says that he is taking orders from 12 spirits and that he only acts on their orders.

Who Was Targeted and Why

In the 1980s, Joseph Kony founded the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group to overthrow Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Kony kidnapped an estimated 30,000 children in the north of Uganda, forcing boys to become soldiers and girls to be sex slaves. Pushed out of Uganda in 2006, he and his dwindling force now operate in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic. The children that are made into soldiers for Kony are mostly under 15 years of age and it is a major war crime.

While Kony forces boys that are too young into an army and the girls to be sex slaves, Hitler isn’t much different in forcing all of the Jews in gigantic concentration camps. Both of them are similar because they both throw people into situations were they barely have enough food to do anything and are forced to do all of the dirty work with barley anything to help them to stay alive.

How They Obtained Power

Joseph Kony came to a power position in the mid to late 1980’s. It all started when Kony a former altar boy was caught in the middle of a storm of violence that marked the last years of Milton Obote’s presidency. Obote was deposed in a military coup in 1985. Soon after this happened Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA) seized power. Kony’s Lord’s resistance was one of many who rose up against the NRA. Kony was a spiritual leader, known as a healer among the Acholi people. He inherited a powerful support base from Alice Lakwena, a spirit-medium. Lakwena's followers would "daub themselves in Shea butter crosses which they believed would protect them from bullets and they believed that stones would explode like grenades," explains Matthew Green, author of "The Wizard of the Nile - The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted," about Kony. This just speaks to how ludicrous what Kony preaches is.

                Now when we compare him to lets say Adolph Hitler there are some similarities and differences. Just like Kony Hitler received his support because of someone else. Hitler rose to power when he was recruited by Hindenburg. In November 1932 elections the Nazis again failed to get a majority of seats in the Reichstag. Hitler contemplated suicide. But then he was rescued by Hindenburg. Franz von Papen (a friend of Hindenburg) was Chancellor, but he could not get enough support in the Reichstag.   Hindenburg and von Papen had a govern by emergency decree under Article 48 of the Constitution.   They offered Hitler the post of vice-Chancellor if he promised to support them. Hitler refused he demanded to be made Chancellor. So Von Papen and Hindenburg took a risk. On 30 January 1933 Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor. He thought he could control Hitler how wrong he was.  However in the end, Hitler did not TAKE power at all he was given it.

How They Maintained Power

Joseph Kony was able to maintain power through fear, some of the things that he did was he would cut off people's hands as a kind of warning not to raise any hands against the rebels. Kony once gave an order that anyone caught riding a bicycle should have their legs cut off. Bicycles were a very common means of transport in rural areas and he was worried that informers, if they saw the rebels, would rapidly pedal away and alert the nearest army post. The violence was done in a way, displaying a message, that their government could not protect them.

                Kony and Hitler were able to maintain there power because Hitler was given the power and used it in the wrong way while Kony took the power and used his power to force people to do what he wanted them to do. Both of them made up ridiculous rules that were for their own good and they only used fear to keep everyone in line by executing anyone who disobeyed the leg or else violently hurting them just to show an example.

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Interview

In Haiti the government is letting hundreds of poor people die of food starvation and not doing anything to help, in fact they are just ignoring the fact that there are people who are dyeing everyday. I am interviewing a very poor woman for Haiti. Her name is Astryd; she just recently had two kids die. One of them was her two year old son named Slovensly, he just died earlier this week. He had diarrhea and was coughing up long white worms. Astryd also watched her 11 year old daughter named Manouchka who die two weeks ago. Manouchka died the same day she got sick from an illness called cholera. When Manouchka died her body was taken immediately and buried in a mass grave outside of Port-au-Prince to a mass grave up. 

Reporter- “So Astryed, where is the children’s father? I am sure he could help you.”

Astryd- “He was killed on January 12 in the earthquake; he was pulling a cart when the earthquake happened. He is also buried down in Port-au-Prince with our children that are gone so at least they can be together and maybe some day I will join them.”

Reporter- “It must be very hard for you to lose two kids in just two weeks and then to also lose your husband within a small amount of time. How do you feel about that?”

Astryd- “When you are around death for as long of a time I have, you get kind of used to it.”

Reporter- “Why do you think the government is not doing anything to help out all of the people?”

Astryd-“Well, its because they think that since they are higher up in the food chain that they don’t have to do anything about all of the poor people starving who are homeless and have no food. They are all lazy and if they did anything right they would start by helping out everyone who is homeless and has no food and not tend to their own needs first.

Reporter-“Are you currently employed because I heard that there is a 70% unemployment rate in this country?”

Astryd-“I was employed until the earthquake happened and it wiped out the entire business were I worked. I can’t find a job currently because everyone is still trying to rebuild.”

Reporter-“Ok, Thank you for your time I hope to see you again soon.”

Works Cited

Carrol, John. (2010, December 02). Dying in Haiti. John Carrol. Retrieved March 5, 2012, from http://dyinginhaiti.blogspot.com/2010/12/genocide-in-haiti.html

Danto, Ezili. (2009, August 29). Haiti, Genocide and the New Slavery Model. Ezili Danto. Retrieved March 5, 2012, from http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/4575-haiti-genocide-and-the-new-slavery-model.html

Newspaper Article

At 3 am on the morning of March 7, 2010, over 500 Nigerian Christians were subject to an indescribable genocide in the village of Dogo Nahawa, near the city of Jos. Most of the victims were woman and children. It began when Muslim Fulani herdsman set the homes of Christian villages on fire. While all of the victims were fleeing their homes the rampaging Muslims attacked the Christians. They were reported to have been killed by axes, scythes, and machetes. Many of the fleeing villagers were trapped in nets and then hacked to death with machetes. Others were caught in animal traps specially set up outside of the huts.

When the violence was finally over, which was four hours later, there were bodies strewn all over the ground. The final death toll was 500. Just the day before the attack at 9PM on March 6, the governor reported the possibility of an attack to the commanding officer of the military in the area. The military still failed in taking action despite the warning that the governor gave just hours before the attack. According to the ICC, (International Christian Concern) in some cases the Muslims wiped out entire members’ families. They also burned down the homes of several Christians. A local government official told ICC that around 380 Christians were buried in one mass burial space. He added that other victims were buried by their families and there are still bodies being collected. The official, who requested to remain anonymous, also said that police have arrested 93 people and recovered guns, knives, machetes, scythes and other types of weapons from the suspects that killed the Christians.

The genocide committed by Muslims against innocent women and children is another clear demonstration of Muslims brutality and intolerance of Christians in northern Nigeria. There were various attacks that were coordinated to happen at the same time in three different villages.  Over 13,750 Nigerian Christians have been killed by Muslims in Northern Nigeria since 2001. The ICC is against these horrible crimes in the strongest of terms and offer sincere condolences to the families and friends of those innocent victims who lost their lives in the massacre and wish a speedy recovery to the injured.  The Nigerian officials are the ones responsible for these crimes because they are unable to stop the Muslims from attacking more villages in the future without the fear of being executed for their crimes because the officials of Nigerian can’t stop them. At the same time the Nigerian government is encouraging to continue to pursue the Muslims in a hope of driving them out of Nigeria. They are hoping to get to the root of the cause so that they can start to drive the Muslims back and to urge the surrounding villages to continue to work together to build a peaceful society.

Work Cited

Canada Free Press (2012). Canada Free Press. Canada Free Press. Retrieved February 28, 2012, from http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20867

Alfred the Great Society. (2009). Hundreds of Nigerian Christians Ambushed in Mass Genocide. Alfred the Great Society. Retrieved February 28, 2012, from http://atgsociety.com/2010/03/hundreds-of-nigerian-christians-ambushed-in-mass-genocide/#comments

Operation Broken Silence. (2012, March 2) Operation Broken Silence. Operation Broken Silence. Retrieved February 29, 2012, from http://www.operationbrokensilence.org/?p=3063

Preventing Repitition of the Past

        Hi kids, this is Aaron, Timmy, and some other kid named Blaine. We are 9th graders doing a project about Genocides. We just recently finished the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel about the Holocaust which was one of the most famous Genocides of all time. We are looking into modern day Genocides for the project. Our topic is about the Genocides of the modern variety. We will be posting artifacts about the Genocide in a few days time, so i hope you look at this blog and learn something from it about modern day Genocides, so that you will be aware of what is happening in the real world!

        The four categories that we will be posting on this site is 1.) Informative: we are making a one page newspaper article about a modern day Genocide and specific events that happened. 2.) Personal: we are writing a one page interview of a person involved with a current day Genocide. 3.) Evaluation: we will be writing a 1-2 page paper of the similarities and differences between the Genocide and the Holocaust. 4.) HOW TO make a change: we will be doing a public broadcast explaining what we and the government can do help the victims of the Genocides.