The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.
World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people.
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.