We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.
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.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.
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.
Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
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