"What lessons can be drawn from the successive genocides of the last hundred years? Four panelists examined the failures to act and the outright denial that anything happened in some of the most famous cases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: the massacre of the Armenians in Turkey in 1915-23, the Holocaust of the Jews in Hitler's Germany, the mass killing of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, and the ongoing slaughter in the Darfur provinces of western Sudan today. Their conclusion: it happens again because no one was punished the last time. And the professional deniers, whatever their motive, encourage the next genocide....
"As an example of joint actions with the Janjaweed, Keller said, 'the Sudan air force has been known to engage in targeting areas with SLF and JEM supporters and to bomb these locations in advance of the Janjaweed. And if you follow the newspapers, they have been doing this with impunity in recent dates. Now you tell me if it doesn't sound like genocide or ethnic cleansing is going on in that part of the world?'"
Go to http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/article.asp?parentid=21398
"As an example of joint actions with the Janjaweed, Keller said, 'the Sudan air force has been known to engage in targeting areas with SLF and JEM supporters and to bomb these locations in advance of the Janjaweed. And if you follow the newspapers, they have been doing this with impunity in recent dates. Now you tell me if it doesn't sound like genocide or ethnic cleansing is going on in that part of the world?'"
Go to http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/article.asp?parentid=21398
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