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For Wednesdays blog that was supposed to be focusing on overcoming the struggle of facing a difficulty, i read an article from cnn.com called The world's most heinous crime. This article is about the act of genocide, and how many people around the world have suffered from it. The actual definition of genocide is "the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group". Christiane Amanpour from CNN decided to travel to Africa and Asia to further explore the problem faced by 4 individuals. They all had one goal in mind; to stop genocide. Every attempt they made however was shot down, and they were told it was simply not their problem. In the next few sections of this article there are numerous examples of countries trying to eliminate this horrid crime, and failing. In the 1970's Cambodia's attempt was approached by a catholic missionary who wrote a book called "Year Zero" which contained accounts of slave labor and torcher that lead to half the population's death. "No one believed us" he stated. Another unsuccessful attempt happened in Iraq. They found that having an intervention would be extremely expensive and not worth it. Overall the article reflects the theme of overcoming facing a difficulty by showing that many people around the world have suffered from genocide and their families and friends are not able to do anything about it. I believe that genocide is a horendous crime and should never be allowed.

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Andy Segal, Jennifer Hyde and Ken Shiffman contributed to this report. The world's most heinous crime http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/20/sbm.overview/