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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door ashrawi

Niet dat ik ertegen ben, maar ik kan wel verstaan waarom bepaalde landen niet zouden meedoen. Er zijn meer volkeren die de dood hebben gevonden tijdens WOII. Die worden nooooooooooooooooit herdacht.

En ik dacht dat iedereen gelijk voor de wet was.

SILLY ME

Ashrawi, silly zou ik nooit tegen u durven zeggen, maar u overdrijft met het aantal o-s in nooit.

Dat er over andere doden nooit wordt gesproken is gewoon onwaar.

Zelfs tijdens de VN-zitting waar we het hier over hebben zei Koffi Annan onder meer het volgende:

“It is, above all, a day to remember not only the victims of past horrors, whom the world abandoned, but also the potential victims of present and future ones,” Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the 191-member General Assembly during its first-ever special commemorative session, noting that the United Nations itself was born out of the ashes of the Holocaust.

“Such an evil must never be allowed to happen again. We must be on the watch for any revival of anti-Semitism and ready to act against the new forms of it that are appearing today,” he added, paying homage, too, to other groups slaughtered by Nazi Germany, including the Roma people, Slavs, Soviet prisoners of war, the handicapped, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals.

“But the tragedy of the Jewish people was unique,” he stressed. “An entire civilization, which had contributed far beyond its numbers to the cultural and intellectual riches of Europe and the world, was uprooted, destroyed, laid waste.”

Turning to more recent cases of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, Mr. Annan declared: “On occasions such as this, rhetoric comes easily. We rightly say ‘never again.’ But action is much harder. Since the Holocaust the world has, to its shame, failed more than once to prevent or halt genocide.”

He noted that even today “terrible things” are happening in Darfur, Sudan, where tens of thousands of people have died and nearly 2 million have been uprooted in fighting between the Government, pro-government militias and rebels. Tomorrow, he expected to receive an international report determining whether this constitutes genocide.


(bron: UN News Center )