Genocide is a very big problem going on throughout the whole world which started many years ago, and it is still happening in today's world. There are many forms of genocide; it is the killing of an entire group of people based on their skin color, religion, race, and sexuality. One of the biggest cases of genocide was the Holocaust, which was the killing of Jews done by the German Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler which lasted from 1941-1945. It is very important to warn everyone and teach today's kids about these genocides so that anything like this would never happen ever again. For example, not much people knew about the Armenian genocide (1915-1918) which happened almost 100 years ago, and it is saddening because not much people notice something that is affecting the whole world, but even worse, no one is taking action to help. The are many innocent people being murdered due to these genocides just because they are the people who they are. A genocide is usually caused by an individual or a group of individuals who carry out the plan and give orders of killing the people. Something as simple as an individual's action that can bring followers and a big disaster to mankind. One of the genocides we are going to be talking about is the Guatemalan Genocide that started in 1982 when dictator Efrain Rios Montt took presidency of Guatemala and wiped out 200,000 Mayans. This issue is still going on today; a trial has just passed where Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty for killing all those Mayans, but, it was not over yet. The trial has overturned, and the trial will take place in April of 2014. We'll just have to wait and see if he will be proven guilty, or innocent. For many years now, countries have failed to focus on genocide. Sure, there have been laws to try to prevent genocide, but none of these have been effective and dictators have shown no fear to stop. We need to find a way to stop all this as soon as possible; who knows, something like this can happen again in the near future.