Never Again ?
Layla Anwar
Today the United Nations Department of Public Information held its second annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust followed by a ceremony at the UN Headquarters. This special ceremony for a special rememberance of a special people will be followed by no less than three special visual exhibitions of art work and pictures (...) A resolution echoing the first collective shout by the "civilized" nations following World War II, the shout " Never Again !" And since 1945 ,mausoleums,permanent exhibitions,vigils,conferences,philosophical debates on the "wickedness of the human mind" take place on quasi daily basis-all shouting "Never Again." Never again,mass genocide and collective punishment. Never again, concentration camps. Never again collective rape. Never again Ghettos. Never again asphyxiation and experiments on humans. Never again collective torture. Never again deliberate starvation. Never again forced labor. Never again discrimination by name tags ... Never again.... Never again...Let us sing it together now out loud , Never again! Meanwhile.... and in parallel... 1948 - The Establishment of Israel by the International Community, that same international community. And since that year, a silent mass genocide takes place in Palestine, silent to the deaf ears of the world. Millions of refugees, hundreds of detention prisons, burns by cluster bombs and other "friendly" weapons, mass starvation, mass destruction,mass graves, collective torture, concentration camps and ghettos ...Never again ? (...) 1990 - Present : Comes the big chunk Iraq. Never in contemporary history has the International Community and the United Nations been a direct culprit in mass genocide like it has done in Iraq. In 1990, the most cruel embargo and set of sanctions were imposed on the Iraqi people with the blessings and the complicity of the United Nations. That same United Nations that was born out of the birth pangs of "Never Again." 13 years of mass genocide and of mass murdering by the UN and the Security Council. Not less than 1.5 million men and women dead, out of which not less than 500'000 children under the age of 5." Today, the 29th January 2007, Iraqis long for the days of the sanctions. Iraq has been "liberated", from 2003 till the present. Today in Iraq, people are collectively raped, murdered, tortured, experimented on with various drugs and drills and american bombs. Lazer bombs, phosphorus, cluster, DU...
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Today the United Nations Department of Public Information held its second annual observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust followed by a ceremony at the UN Headquarters. This special ceremony for a special rememberance of a special people will be followed by no less than three special visual exhibitions of art work and pictures (...) A resolution echoing the first collective shout by the "civilized" nations following World War II, the shout " Never Again !" And since 1945 ,mausoleums,permanent exhibitions,vigils,conferences,philosophical debates on the "wickedness of the human mind" take place on quasi daily basis-all shouting "Never Again." Never again,mass genocide and collective punishment. Never again, concentration camps. Never again collective rape. Never again Ghettos. Never again asphyxiation and experiments on humans. Never again collective torture. Never again deliberate starvation. Never again forced labor. Never again discrimination by name tags ... Never again.... Never again...Let us sing it together now out loud , Never again! Meanwhile.... and in parallel... 1948 - The Establishment of Israel by the International Community, that same international community. And since that year, a silent mass genocide takes place in Palestine, silent to the deaf ears of the world. Millions of refugees, hundreds of detention prisons, burns by cluster bombs and other "friendly" weapons, mass starvation, mass destruction,mass graves, collective torture, concentration camps and ghettos ...Never again ? (...) 1990 - Present : Comes the big chunk Iraq. Never in contemporary history has the International Community and the United Nations been a direct culprit in mass genocide like it has done in Iraq. In 1990, the most cruel embargo and set of sanctions were imposed on the Iraqi people with the blessings and the complicity of the United Nations. That same United Nations that was born out of the birth pangs of "Never Again." 13 years of mass genocide and of mass murdering by the UN and the Security Council. Not less than 1.5 million men and women dead, out of which not less than 500'000 children under the age of 5." Today, the 29th January 2007, Iraqis long for the days of the sanctions. Iraq has been "liberated", from 2003 till the present. Today in Iraq, people are collectively raped, murdered, tortured, experimented on with various drugs and drills and american bombs. Lazer bombs, phosphorus, cluster, DU...
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