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When many people hear the word genocide they think of the Nazi Holocaust back in World War 2 where 6,000,000 people died that were mostly Jewish people. The definition of genocide is the destruction of an ethnic group not just the Jewish people that the Nazi’s killed.  The Holocaust was back in the 1930’s. It started off when Hitler came to power in Germany and made everyone into his followers. First he put all the Jews in ghettos outside of the cities. Then he slowly took away their rights. Next he hauled them all to concentration camps where he killed most of them on the spot using gas chambers. Those who weren’t sent to the gas chambers and survived were worked all the time and barely got any food or clothes. The Holocaust lasted around 2 years and millions of people died. That is what happened during the Holocaust. There is a genocide going on today over in North Korea. The people there are being imprisoned for life in a concentration camp for little or no reason. One reason is if you say something bad about the government, they will throw you and your family members in jail even if they didn’t say anything. The North Korean camps held approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps, and that 400,000 people have died in these camps from torture, starvation, disease, and execution. Many men, women, and children are forced to work seven days a week as slaves and eat rats, frogs, snakes, insects, and even feces to battle starvation in the camps. There might be genocide in the future, but it is not guaranteed. After 11 million people (including 6 million Jews) were exterminated in World War II, the world said, "never again." After 1.7 million people were confirmed dead from Pol Pot's murderous rule in Cambodia, the world said, "never again." After the tragedy of Rwanda, when 800,000 people were massacred in three months, the world said, "never again." Right now there are people dying in North Korea. Once the North Korean genocide ends sometime, no one can guess if there will be genocide sometime in the future or not after the terrible things that the North Koreans do to their citizens.

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Jonathan C. (April 11, 2004). The future of genocide is unfortunately very bright. 2012 Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved March 2, 2012, from http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/11/INGV560VV11.DTL&ao=all