Genocide Quotes

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

We think his policies are totally contrary to what we want for Latin America and are promoting genocide, domination of workers and their communities and the plundering of natural resources.

Instead of treating [the genocide] like [Hurricane] Katrina, let's think more about the political action.

We met people on both sides of the genocide, the Tutsi and Hutus. They learned to forgive each other and peace is now their biggest goal.

The international community must never again allow genocide or mass murder to go unchecked. This is a moral issue of huge importance and will establish a new standard that could help save millions of lives.

The Security Council has today said that in the 21st century, the world will not tolerate genocide or crimes against humanity.

What makes me sick is that when I come across someone who is guilty of genocide I do not get on a plane and go to Baghdad and grovel at his feet.

We saw the whole world closing their eyes and ears, leaving us alone to thugs and gangsters. The genocide took away a million people in a 100 days.

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa, ... We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success.

terror, genocide and repression.

On the face of it, the genocide (charge) is not irresponsible, but it is very difficult to prove.

The charges of high treason and genocide are extremely grave as regards the journalists. We call on the Ethiopian government to show the utmost transparency in these cases. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi should not try to defuse the criticism against him at the expense of the freedom or lives of citizens.

The genocide was brutal, criminal and disgusting and continued for 100 days under the eyes of the international community.

Rwanda is known for the wrong reasons, the genocide that happened 10 years ago. We are trying to change the image that everyone still has: the image of the genocide.

We are actually talking about the genocide as part of our past, but we are doing it in such a way that people can learn something.

If we allow genocide anywhere in the world, it will happen again somewhere else, unless we make it crystal clear to the perpetrators that it is unacceptable any time, any place.

I don't want to bring back memories of the genocide but rather to impart a feeling of sorrow along with the story.

Because of the genocide, Armenians scattered.

The word 'genocide' has become too repeated and become another line people use to talk the talk. The U.S. should not follow the failure of the UN.

allowing us to be persuaded by the argument of those who would deny that the genocide occurred at all.

Milosevic will be remembered as a negative historical individual and a dictator, and the first statesman charged with genocide.

Any abuse or disturbance to this sacred plant and family member is nothing short of genocide.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.