It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another.
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same.
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
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