FREE ESSAY ON VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VS. THE BOOK NIGHT

VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VS. THE BOOK NIGHT

Throughout history we have studied and learned about different people and places that have
gone through serious hardships. Some people wrote books about their terrible experience.
However, others we have just read about in newspaper articles, seen in movies or even
studied in a school textbooks. 
The book Night is about a Hungarian Jewish teenager who is captured by the Nazi's along
with his father and many other Jews. They are being tortured in many ways such as being
beaten,stripped, shaved, starved and also having to do slave work. They were being
treated as if they were not human. As a matter of fact to the Nazi's they weren't human,
they were practically garbage and it did not matter what had happened to them. The Nazi's
had turned them into different people. It was as if they did not have family members
because they only cared about personal survival. Also I think that it took the faith that
the Jews had away from them which left them no other choice but to be hopeless.
Since the Holocaust took place there were other incidents that has occured in other
countries where human rights were violated. In Libya people have been treated cruely and
have had no rights for years. Libya has not had fair human rights since 1984. Recently in
June of 1997, the head of the state decided on punished people if the head of the state
was not informed of family members. The things that are taking place are violating the
International Human Rights treaties. There were reports on people being tortured executed
or even supposedly disappearing.
In Libya they are treated as if they are not human and they have to obey absurd rules
that have nothing to do with keeping a country in order. Keeping a country or state in
order should be the main idea not torturing everyone.
I think that what is happening in Libya and the Holocaust are almost exactly alike. The
Holocaust was all about concentration camps and ways of torture and thats exactly how the
people of Libya are being treated. The people of Libya are not being treated like humans
and are not being respected the way every person deserves to be. The Holocaust I feel was
about discrimination because the Nazi's did not like the Jews and they were persecuting
them because they were Jewish and that is wrong. Both situations are wrong because they
take the faith and hope out of the people and the people feel as if they are inhuman and
it is horrible to hear about that happening because no one deserves such cruelty.
I think the reason as to why these things occur is because after the Holocaust had taken
place people heard about it and got ideas. They think having power is everything. Power
isn't all that great when you are taking the life out of everyone. This book and reading
about Libya should be an example for everyone to learn : Hurting, killing and treating
people cruely is not something that gives you power it makes you a horrible person.