Auschwitz Liberation 70th Anniversary

[DEEJAYKEG]

Seventy years ago today, soldiers of the Soviet Red Army liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland.

Six million men, women and children were murdered during the Holocaust.  Many were Jews, others homosexuals,

socialists, artists or trade unionists.  We must always remember this atrocity and never allow any section of our

society to be the subject of hatred or persecution or made scapegoats for our problems.  Never again!

 

[loaderXI]

We must never forget and even today be very vigilant

 

 

In todays times we are seeing what is happening around the world to Christians

and other forms of genocide

 

 

I just pray that should we all need to rise up against such things that everyone will stand as one

[LandShark]

Agree. It must ALWAYS be remembered.  Thank you for starting this thread.

[Olive]

Auschwitz is probably the most eery place i have ever been,you can feel in your bones that the place is haunted even when you're outside buildings like the gas chambers.Being inside some buildings for too long is almost impossible and i saw some visitors rushing outside to get some fresh air.What you see and feel here will change you forever.

Let's never forget.

 

[JohnnyDos]

I believe it and you, cause I know you have visited and plus what I see on TV.Very true Olive.

[Damage_inc-]

unfortunately there have been numerous genocides perpetrated by multiple governments since these crimes against  humanity and its disgusting to the core

 

There have been 15 confirmed acts of Genocide by International Law since 1945.

One is still on-going.

Estimated Death Totals - Conflict - Date

 

1,671,000 - 3,000,000 Cambodian Genocide Cambodia 1975 - 1979

500,000 - 3,000,000 Expulsion of Germans after World War II Europe 1945 - 1950

500,000 - 1,000,000 Rwandan genocide Rwanda 1994 - 1994

178,258 - 400,000 Darfur conflict Sudan 2003 - 2010

100,000 - 200,000 Massacres of Mayan Indians Guatemala 1962 - 1996

50,000 - 200,000 Al-Anfal Campaign Iraq 1986 - 1989

50,000 - 100,000 Massacres of Hutus Burundi 1972 -1972

50,000 - 50,000 Massacres of Tutsis Burundi 1993 - 1993

26,000 - 3,000,000 Bangladesh atrocities East Pakistan (Bangladesh) 1971 - 1971

20,000 - 80,000 Dictatorship /political repression Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 1969 - 1979

18,600 - 183,000 Political repression of East Timorese East Timor 1975 - 1990s

9,000 - 30,000 Dirty War Argentina 1976 - 1983

8,000 - 17,000 Massacres during Zanzibar Revolution Zanzibar 1964 - 1964

7,500 - 8,000 Srebrenica massacre Srebrenica 1995 - 1995

2,000 - 70,000 Persecution of Falun Gong China 1999 ongoing

 

 

what a mess

[Astronomer]

Related to this, in the early 1990's when I was a graduate student, I was doing research at NATO headquarters in Brussels. I had to go to Warsaw (that in itself is an extraordinary story), and one of the greatest honours of my life, and a very proud moment for my dad, was when the Canadian embassy asked me to lay a wreath on behalf of Canada at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto. All these years later, it's still a proud and emotional memory for me. Oisbrukirt mit tsores iz der veg tsum bais-hakvores (The road to the cemetery is paved with suffering).

Edited January 28, 2015 by Astronomer

[FRENCHI]

plus jamais s il vous plait .....

[Cooperm4n]

Yes the world is in a mess we must remember the atrocities and try to prevent more although we are not being very successful at the moment as Danger pointed out.  We must strive to be better