The UN recognizes the liberation of Auschwitz on the 60th Anniversary of the occasion. I'm underwhelmed by the show of moral clarity.
The best way to remember Auschwitz is to do more than repeat Never Again ad infinitum. The best way is to prevent another social, ethnic, or political group from being the victims of genocide.
The UN failed at that basic mission in 1994 in Rwanda [kudos to Kofi, et al., for looking the other way on that one].
The UN failed in Kosovo and the Balkans.
The UN failed in Iraq - both for the Kurds and the Marsh Arabs.
The UN is failing in Dafur, as everyone except the UN appears to recognize genocide is ongoing.
The best way to celebrate any anniversary of Auschwitz is to make sure that we not only never forget to remember what got the Nazis to the point of annihilating an entire people in death camps [the anti Semitism, demonization of a social, relgious, and ethnic group, and state sanctioned persecution], but don't forget to stop potential situations from blossoming into modern day genocides right before our eyes.
Unfortunately, the UN will not permit action further than remembrance. And on that point, it took 60 years. The people of Dafur don't have that kind of disposable time on their hands.
Technorati: Human Rights, Genocide
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