What causes a Genocide?

The main cause to genocides in the world are from people trying to gain power. In each leaders rise to power there is a struggle because that means they must get rid of the person who was in power before them. This power struggle always takes many lives, and with that rise to power comes change. Many of these include a targeted group of people. If it is mainly political than it is their opposing party that they try to overthrow or kill. In more tribal situations there is usually one group of people that have more power so they will target the other group to destroy to either gain power, or destroy the other group of power so that they do not have to be threatened from their possible rise to power (Sally Girouard's Blog). Another cause for genocide can be when the government feels threatened about a possible up rising. In Darfur the government was threatened by the threat of an uprising from their citizens so they enlisted the help of the Janjaweed which is the armed militia. The Janjaweed went around from village to village killing anyone and burning down the village as they left so nothing remained (Mariah's Blog).