Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
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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.
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.
Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot about the country and its history.
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
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.
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'
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