When exiled South African journalist reluctantly explained the Nazi Holocaust to his seven-year-old son who knew no adult in Germany could be legitimately claim “we didn’t know”.
That boy grew up to cover two “official” genocides in the nineties in Bosnia and Herzegovina Rwanda. In the former Yugoslavia, he saw Muslims hunting for sports in Sarajevo and the entire streets for which it conspenses to hide civilian customers from Serbian snipers.
A million people were killed in Rwanda in three months. The Nazi destruction rate – but all killings were manually, and the victims clogged the rivers into the human soup.
And now we are all witnesses of the third round of trying to destroy in Ukraine well Gauze. Nothing can be described as “hidden”.
Exterior The world intervened, far too late, in the former Yugoslavia to stop ethnic cleansing after Srebrenica.
He didn’t do anything in Rwanda, a year ago. And he even arrived to use the term “genocide”, although warned in the United Nations to be worth the overall eradication of Tutsis before the 7th April 1994. Years.
Russia They face sanctions and Vladimir Putin was accused of alleged war crime by the International Criminal Court. Ukraine is Return from the west for your defense. Putin pays the price for his aggression.
IsraelHowever, it is still armed by the United States and there are no commercial sanctions.
The form is that the West takes over the mass killing of Christian white people more seriously than in eradication of the state eradication of dark skin and Muslims.
The Allies knew about Hitler’s “final solution” until 1942, but they did nothing to stop it.
We need to ask histories, and alone, is the view away when innocent leads to their deaths, not just a little easier if they are “different”? Jews, Muslims, Black Africans and now Palestinians …
The Convention of the General Assembly in 1951 on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide requires states to punish and prevent genocides.
The international community had a patchy record of punishment and terrible record of preventing, genocide or acts of genocide.
As we denote a 30-year-old Srebrenica Massacre From 8,000 or more Muslims and boys killed in Bosnian genocide by ethnic Serbs in 1995. years, it is clear that “never more” slogan as old.
It is true that human beings considered very easy to kill each other – especially if this effort is the state sanctioned. And it is even easier to kill – and help the killers watching far – if the victims are “different.”
The key to undoing instincts that human beings must have a massacre of their rivals in industrial quantities lying in the end of impunity. We have to stop to get out with that. We need to see all the people as actually, indeed, man.
To do this, we must complete impunity. For the end of the impunity, we must face what we see in front of us.
Serb killers tried and convicted of their crimes of the International Criminal Court for Yugoslavia. The process is allowed to calculate.
Serbia apologized for the atrociations of Bosnia 2010. years and called for the arrest of the Main Author Ratko Mladic.
Germany has a complex noun for what has done to admit, repair and reconcile with their own past – Dealing with the past. This process began with war crimes courts in Nuremberg.
Rwanda Tutsi survived in the 1994 genocide. Years, they brought the truth and reconciliation process through Gacaca Courts – adequate courts in which confines are traded for reduced sentences among ethnic hut Genocidaires. There were some prosecutions in the International Criminal Court for Rwanda.
But many of the 1994 worst perpetrators. They fled to exile where they faced justice for their crimes. They preferred to draw back and finish the job as he expands the ideology of murder broadcast in what was then zaire.
The ideology of neighbor murders – before the killer – you have extended 30 years throughout the region and among other things, there are “surgery clean slate” when 40 percent of ethnic pigmims were killed in Central Africa in 2002. until 2002. years. Pygmies, more precisely, batwa, are different – they are small.
See only differences allow attempts to delete people, delete their cultures or drive them from their homeland to continue around the world.
The Soviets banned the language of Ukraine, lowered their poets and artists and overwrite their history. Some 3-5 million people were killed in Moscow intentional hunger 1932-3, Holodomor. Now Russia has returned. Vladimir Putin He insists again that there is no such thing as in Ukraine.
Putin enjoys impunity at home. Abroad, the International War Crimes Criminal Court accused him.
But it is unlikely to ever arrest. Donald Trump, After all, see him as a friend and issued sanctions against the body itself, ICC who hopes to prosecute the Russian president.
Meanwhile Benjamin Netanyahu has I was just in a white house For his third visit this year. Like Putin, he is under the indictments of ICC due to the alleged war crimes.
His government includes extremists who swallow with the requirements that the tread population is encouraged to leave the enclave “voluntarily”. The population of 2.2 million people will have a little election, but to leave when the shooting stops because there is nowhere to live in Gaza. The panola is izperel’s bombs.
More than half of 57,000 people who say local authorities that they were killed by Israel are women and children. The UN is freely used by the term “genocide” when refers to Israeli behavior against their neighbors.
Helena Kennedy, KC, one of the leading lawyers for human rights in the UK, clearly showed what the Israel is working in Gaza.
“I have beeen Moved to the position to where we are witnessing a genocide of the site … I was very reluctant to go there become very high, there has to be specific intent for genocide, but what we are now seeing is Genocidal Behaviour, “She Told The BBC.
HamasWhich rules about what is left of Gaza, has politics that leans towards genocide. His fundamental document calls for the eradication of Israel as a political entity. Hamas is widely considered a terrorist organization and water murder of 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapping another 250 of 7. October 2023. Years.
Hamas doesn’t work unpunished. He attacks him Israel. Her surviving leaders should, one day to be completed and processed for a massacre of 7. October 2023. Years.
Meanwhile UN Special Rapporteur in Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese Recently, “The situation in the occupied Palestinian territory is apocalyptic. Israel is responsible for one of the September of Genocide in Modern History”.
Mass murders are rare in societies that respect the humanity of their rivals. In Rwanda Tutsis were called “cockroaches” of their own government. An anti-Semitic cases were used to galvanize the millennium of the pogrom against the Jews.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, “different” Palestians have the same tone that use Soviets to Ukraine.
“There is no such thing as a Palestinian nation. There is no Palestinian history. No Palestinian,” he said.
Heidi Kingstone, author “Genocide: Personal stories big questions Statement: “The perpetrators can convince everyone that victims are not people and should be destroyed.
“Once you start other people, dehumanize them and justify the actions, to categorize them and finally exterminate them. The same happens. Also supports all the Jews, and not all the Israelites,” she said.
We remember the day of Muslims on the day in Bosnia, we can’t say “we didn’t know” what happens in Gaza – they are not insects crawling through ruins.