A Genocide Abroad ,

This week I will be writing about the autrocities taking place right now in South Africa. I recently discovered this online. What is so confounding to me is, why does it go unreported here? I get my news from the U.S., and I also get my news from Europe. Not one news outlet has written a thing about it.

The statistical rate for the farmers being murdered daily since the death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 is 264/100,000. The number is only an estimate, because the S. African government does not track or record these deaths. Genocide watch has been keeping the statistics and this figure is the highest in the world to date. The Boers, are the original Dutch settlers in this region of S. Africa. The Boers are the generations of farmers who settled in S. Africa in 1792. And they are being massacred for no other reason except that they are white! I will be gathering more information about this all week,  The murders are gruesome. These people are not simply shot, or choked. These people are slaughtered, in the most horrific fashion. And it isn't just the farmer, It is the mom, the child, the teenager, and the elderly.

The statistics show that in 1991 there were 133,000 commercial farmers in S, Africa, today, there are only 29,000 left today. These people are placed on a level 6 according to Genocide Watch, the highest level being 8.

Giving names to classification, the Black S. Africans refer to the whites as "Boer' or "Whitey". Classification and symbolization are universally "human" and do not necessarily result in genocide, unless they lead to the next stage, which is dehumanization. I came across how this is classified:

DEHUMANIZATION: One group denies the other group humanity. They are equal to animals, vermin, insects, or disease. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revultion against murder.

ORGANIZATION:  Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, but sometimes informally or by terrorist groups.  Special army units or militias are often trained and armed. then their plans are carried out. The organizers usually carry these autrocities out in bands of 4 or 5. This is not considered to be "disorganized" crime. It is well planned and thought out.  Entire families are wiped out. The intent is a complete "wipe-out" of the Boer population.

POLARIZATION:  Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast the polarizing propaganda. Laws are passed against the targeted group.

PREPARATION: Victims are separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up, and groups may have to wear a symbol displaying which group (remembering the victims from the Nazi regime, they were forced to wear the star of David on their clothing as a symbol of shame).

EXTERMINATION:  Extermination begins, and it is legally determined to be genocide.

DENIAL: This is the stage that will always follow genocide.


The S. African government is turning a blind eye to to this and calling it "normal crime", at its worst.
Originally there were "commando" groups who kept watch over the families, and the S. African government had later disbanded it. The farmers were promised protection by the police and Defense forces, who never came, rendering the farmers defenseless.

When I first came upon this report, these were my first thoughts. While Europe, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. are being flooded with migrants from third world countries, why are we not helping our European brothers and sisters in S. Africa? Most of them were forced off their farms when the S. African government began the farm redistribution program, or they fled their farms seeking safety elsewhere, leaving everything behind. I would like to know why we haven't offered them refuge? While our presidents "amnesty bill" was composed to offer benefits to the undocumented, we could be offering this people the same. It has also been reported the white population in S. Africa is highly discriminated and jobs are not offered to them, simply because of their color. A law was recently passed by the S. African government - "No Employment to whites" due to the affirmative action bill put into place. The end result is, either they fled, or are forced into concentration camps, or ghettos, where there is no heat, their only shelter being tents, no sanitation, and no running water. And to make matters worse, the S. African government passed another bill making it against the law to offer any charity or assistance to them, leaving them to fend for themselves. I believe this is an imperative crisis and something needs to be done. And the U.N., who is supposed to be the aid and the problem solver of the world, why are they turning the other direction while this goes on?

So, this week, I will be exploring this tragedy. I would like the people in S. Africa who are enduring this to know that someone on the other side of the planet does care.