Caleigh Tierney's reflection

After researching this ongoing event, I believe that Human Rights aren’t always regarded, and people’s rights are violated on a daily basis. Before researching this issue, I had thought that human rights were only being violated in Darfur, and maybe some small cases in other parts of the world. I didn’t think that it would be as extreme as it is in Chechnya. This relates to Chechnya because some of the same human rights were violated. Like the right to know why you are being legally detained, and the fact that they were illegally detained, and tortured. In the event that is going on with the Chechens, I don’t believe that the ideals of humanism are being supported, they are denying the principle to the people of Chechnya. The idea that all individuals matter is disregarded everyday, and the importance of individuality is lost. Chechens are killed, just because of their Chechens, and they believe that they are all against them. Even journalists who speak out, are brutally murdered in cold blood. So, the idea of humanism cannot be applied to Chechnya at all/. On leadership I believe that you need a strong, and fair ruler, not one that makes decisions for everybody, but discusses it. I don’t really believe in leaders, unless its in a form of a democracy. In this situation, the leader, Putin, was bot a good one. He was anything but fair to the Chechens, and just tortured them, trying to convince them to join the rest of the country. Yes I pity the victims, because they were wronged, and treated horribly. The events that took place, aren’t, and will never be justified. In fact, theres no way these acts against the Chechens can ever be justified. They violated their human rights. There aren’t any peacekeeping efforts in any countries right now to begin with. They aren’t acceptable in e first place, because the efforts of peace aren’t a priority, and nobody makes the effort to uphold the efforts, and protect the rights of people. So the peacekeeping efforts in sovereign countries aren’t acceptable to me at all. First of all, the government wouldn’t allow the United Nations to intervene with the sovereignty of the United States, so it wouldn’t happen. And I don’t think that anything that The UN wanted to change, the government. Even though it is their right, I don’t believe that the United Nations has the right to intervene in our country. I think that they can do it to other countries, because America hasn’t been that bad, and I believe that in America, we try to be fair, and do make an effort to uphold peacekeeping efforts, unlike other countries such as Chechnya, and Darfur. Like America even tries to help those devastated countries. So in America’s case, I don’t believe that the United Nations has the right to intervene on the United States.