Aren't we glad we live in the 21st century?

I was thinking back to that amazing book, What is the What. We learn about how awful circumstances were during the second civil war between Arab Sudan and the Dinka-held South. There are some terrifying scenes in that book, that make you question humanity. But just think about how such a situation played out in previous centuries. An ethnic group travels to another territory. This traveling tribe possesses superior weaponry than the current occupants. Fast forward a decade, and you have a new resident ethnic group: the one's with the guns. Where did that old group who had been living there for centuries and who had a "rightful claim" to the land go? They either died, fled, or were assimilated by gun-toting oppressors.

Nowadays, whenever an ethnic group tries to do what is historically prudent for our species, they get shouted out from all corners of the world! All they want to do is use superior technology to wipe out an ethnicity that's sitting on valuable land resources. What's the harm in that? Now, UN Peacekeeping forces try (rarely successfully) to mediate these conflicts and set up refugee cities to accommodate displaced ethnic groups. Meanwhile, international pressure slowly builds against these nefarious would-be oppressors, until they have little recourse but to stop the fighting or go extinct themselves!

Even though there are cases in this world where genocides continue, world opinion has never been so focused against it. See, there is a good reason for globalization, San Jose Mercury News!