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6 Million Missing Tombstones

Genocide is the denial of the right to existence of an entire human group…

Testimonial

SUDAN

Sudanese government forces were responsible for serious abuses:killings torture rape and sexual assault of women and girls. Human Rights Watch: Report 2007

SUDAN

Two million displaced people are residing in camps around Darfur.

Human Rights Watch: Report 2007

Bosnia“They call Sarajevo ‘the world’s largest death camp.’” (October 17, 1992)

Nadia Halilbegovich, My Childhood Under Fire

“Do children mean nothing to them? If they don’t love somebody else’s children, can they really love their own?”

(November 3, 1992)

Bosnia

Bodies have been found and some of the mass graves opened.

Identification has proved almost impossible.

There are 20,000 people listed as missing in Bosnia.

http://www.ppu.org.uk/index.html

Bosnia

“… let’s exterminate them, exterminate them, kill them and bury them in the forests…”

“… Don’t even spare the babies, don’t spare the old men, nor the old women…”

Rwanda

General of the Tutsi Army

Rwanda

Rwanda

“In only 11 weeks beginning April 17, 1998, somewhere over 500,000 were murdered, a rate of over 300 murders every hour.”

Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy

Cambodia“How do you bourgeoisie feel now?. . .We certainly don’t need you now.”

“To keep you is no benefit and to destroy you is no loss.”

The Regime of Pol Pot,Leader of Cambodian Genocide

Cambodia

“Between April 1975 and January 1979 [Khmer Rouge Period], more than three million Cambodians died.”

Genocide, Collective Violence, and Popular MemoryEdited by Lorey and Beezley

Cambodia

Armenia“. . .thousands of half-nude bleeding corpses, lying in heaps. . .”

“Fathers, brothers, sons, and grandsons lay there as they had fallen beneath the bullets. . .”

Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy

Armenia

“1.2 to 1.4 million killed might be a

reasonable guess for 1915 to 1916.”

Michael Mann, The Dark Side

The Jewish Holocaust: Europe: 1930’s and

1940’s

“Never shall I forget…….”

Testimonial

“Nietzsche: ‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any

how.’”

Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

CAN THIS HAPPEN AGAIN?

What do YOU think?