Causes of Genocide
Have you ever wondered what causes people to murder hundreds of thousands and of people?
No one is for sure why genocide happens or how it gets to that point but there are many theories. Genocide can take place anywhere and everywhere causing many people to die. Stopping genocides is hard because every genocide is different.
The "one evil man" view, described by Springer, is what some people believe is the cause of most genocides (41). Men like Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein may have led terrible genocides, but they couldn't have done it alone. Many times no one sees any form of warning but the person who is putting it all together has most likely done extensive planning on how they're going to carry out their mission. Hitler