Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that can shine as a light to all nations.
The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.