Ethnic conflict is a sociological term to define any conflict of a violent nature, war or military between two or more ethnic groups, groups of people from different cultural, religious, racial, or geographical. Undoubtedly, in many areas since the early days till now live political conflicts, economic, cultural, social, physical, where violence persists, the mistreatment of the population and instability. We will see then in a brief but clear the case of the Holocaust, the Lebanese Civil War and recently the case of Egypt.
The Holocaust was one of the worst atrocities of humanity; this epoch was characterized by persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi government in the twentieth century. Everything is made based on the belief that the Germans were considered a superior race, and therefore the Jews were a race considered inferior and deserved to die. Furthermore, the Germans considered the Roma racially inferior, disabled, and some groups such as Poles and Russians. For political reasons, other groups were persecuted homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and Socialists. Before World War II began, the Germans had established concentration camps to imprison all persecuted groups. During the war, the Nazis created temporary detention camps and forced labor camps, which totaled about 400. In them, the Jewish population forced to live in really miserable, isolated from the non-Jewish population as well as other Jewish communities and subjected to torture or death "useless people" according to their rules.
Moreover we have the Lebanese Civil War, which was a conflict that occurred in Lebanon between Christian and Muslim populations in the country, with aid from Syria and Israel, carried out between 1975 and 1990. The war had four main stages: first, from 1975 to 1977, with clashes and bloodshed between religious communities, and the Syrian intervention in Lebanese Parliament's request, the second between 1977 and 1982, characterized by the involvement of Israel in the south Litani River Operation Litani through the third, between 1982 and 1984, with the invasion of Israel, the takeover of Beirut and the subsequent United Nations intervention, and the latter between 1984 and 1989. With the "Taif Accords”, signed in Saudi Arabia, tensions began to quiet down until the final end in 1990.
In the case of Egypt, after three decades in power, people were unwilling to continue with President Mubarak in power and did not want his successor and son Gamal as leader of his country. Generated demonstrations in Egypt were aimed solely protest against the government of Hosni Mubarak. The clash arises as a protest against excessive police brutality, state emergency laws, high rates of unemployment, the desire to increase the minimum wage, lack of housing and food, inflation, corruption, lack freedom of opinion and poor living conditions. In addition to this international assessment, this is considered authoritarian and dictatorial governments, as obsolete. After many protests and confrontations of the population, this culminates in the abandonment of power by Mubarak, leaving it in the hands of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt today and fight to improve stability.
Finally the ethnic conflicts have always existed and as human beings do not change our way of thinking towards a peaceful coexistence, these problems do not cease to exist, governments often do not measure the serious impact on society with social conflicts, problems economic, cultural consequences, including assaults and deaths in mainly the damage to the needy classes who see their post-conflict actually getting worse without a secure future or a certain stability to the hand and now we see that the bad experiences we have not been served as an example to improve in this area. Remembering John Paul II: "Let no one be under any illusion that the mere absence of war, even as desirable, is equivalent to a real peace. There is no true peace but comes without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity."
Works Cited
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I'm agree with you, the root of this problems is the people who don't want to progress orthodox people that for one reason or an other don't change their minds. So we will have this problems until human being begin to accept that everything have to change in a good way.
ResponderEliminarI think the common good should prevail, the love of neighbor, the right of every person to have equal access to opportunities, the right to peace and peaceful coexistence, free from dictators and suspicions that only affect the most disadvantaged classes .
ResponderEliminarThanks for your comment ;-)