'Never again' forgotten.Byline: The Register-Guard The world rightly focused last week on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, with leaders from the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other nations solemnly intoning the Holocaust mantra mantra (măn`trə, mŭn–), in Hinduism and Buddhism, mystic words used in ritual and meditation. A mantra is believed to be the sound form of reality, having the power to bring into being the reality it represents. : "Never again." Yet even as ceremonies were conducted at the death camp in Poland, the government in distant Sudan continued its genocide genocide, in international law, the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. against villagers in the region of Darfur in the shameful absence of decisive international intervention. Despite Sudan's recent agreement to a cease-fire, an air force bombardment on Wednesday killed or wounded almost 100 villagers and sent thousands fleeing to distant refugee camps. More than 70,000 have died, and the death toll could exceed a million if the world fails to act. The United Nations Security Council has been as irresponsible in failing to stop the killing in Sudan as it was more than a decade ago in Rwanda. Its response has consisted of appointing commissions to determine whether the massacres meet the legal definition of genocide and approving limp resolutions threatening to "consider action" if Khartoum fails to disarm Arab militias responsible for much of the killing. Meanwhile, Darfur is tumbling into chaos. Hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees are cut off from humanitarian assistance, and the militias, with government assistance, continue to raid the few villages that have yet to be destroyed. If world leaders For a list of heads of state, see . World leaders is a MMORPG. The game involves creating a state, joining an alliance and going into war. It is mostly played by players from Israel, China, USA, Britain, Brazil and Saudi-Arabia. are serious when they utter the words "Never again," they must act now by deploying thousands of additional African peacekeepers and authorizing them to take military action. They must impose arms and oil embargoes Oil embargo may refer to:
Six decades have passed since allied soldiers liberated Auschwitz, yet the world has failed time and again to stop genocides. In the 1970s, 1.5 million Cambodians perished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge Khmer Rouge (kəmĕr` r  zh), name given to native Cambodian Communists. Khmer Rouge soldiers, aided by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, began a large-scale insurgency against . In
1994, up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in Rwanda as
diplomats dithered, as they are dithering Simulating more colors and shades in a palette. In a monochrome system that displays or prints only black and white, shades of grays can be simulated by creating varying patterns of black dots. This is how halftones are created in a monochrome printer. now, over the definition of
genocide.
History will record whether the world allows the genocide in Sudan to continue - or finally fulfills the promise of "Never again." |
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