Genocide is a form of massacre to a grand number of people for political, economic, or social beliefs. When discussing the history of genocide in the world, you can see that whenever there has been a genocide that has taken place, the rules of war have been violated. One example is the Holocaust during World War 2 when the Axis powers and the Allies were fighting each other. Not only was Germany killing actual military soldiers, but they were killing actual civilians that were not trying to interfere with the war, and that went against the Geneva convention which says that you can’t kill civilians that are in areas of conflict. This is just one of the many occurrences that have shown that there is a lack of control of the rules of war during a conflict. Not only does this show that war can be an unfair battle between parties and their people, but it also supports claims that conflict and disagreements should be dealt with by other means. One way or another, mass killings of a people should be banned and if the event of a genocide happens, the oppressors should be handed firm consequences for the harm they caused to the people and the environment around the incident.