Defying Genocide

First & Fourth Set
1. What did Damas Gisimba, Carl Wilkens, and Simon Weil Lipman value, and what risks did they take by holding onto their values?
They all value love, trust, help those in need and see all people as our own image. They all risked their lives by trying to help others. They all hold onto love and generosity and forgot about the possibility of resulting killed by Nazis or Hutus. For example, Damas Gisimba saw Tusis in his own image and he maintain the posture that if they had to suffer or die he must also.

6. What are examples of different forms of hatred in the global community?
Attacks of terrorism, like the one on September 11th; discrimination towards homosexuals; racial discrimination, like between Afro-Americans and Americans, Mexicans and Americans; Columbine massacre in a high school; Holocaust; etc.


Second & Third Set
1. What role did the international community play during the genocide?
During the Rwandan genocide, the international community seemed as a country far away. At first there was unity, they had a feeling that the UN protected them, but when it started they abandoned them.

2. Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
Yes, it should try to convey agreements in conflicts between nations

3. How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? (For suggestions, visit www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/students/)
I think we first need to take conscience and inform ourselves more about, there is some much to learn. Then and most important, we need to take action by making campaigns in school, researching, subscribing to the previous website, etc.

4. Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
Yes, I have. In the gym, a guy that was walking in a running machine suddenly fell from it and started to convulse. Witnesses immediately reacted, lifted him, and took him to the nearest hospital.

5. When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?
They all have a moral responsibility, and those bystanders that are health professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) besides the moral have an ethic responsibility with their job. When they intervene they risk their lives and the one being helped. When they do not intervene sometimes it is at risk their moral integrity.