The Holocaust did not bring an end to crimes against humanity

This week, the Holocaust is remembered worldwide. 

Six million Jews, and one million others, including Roma, homosexuals, communists, and the mentally handicapped were murdered by the Nazis in Germany, and across Europe, aided by other Europeans.

While people are justifiably opposed to crimes against humanity committed by Israel against Palestinians, we must not become racist against the Jewish people.

Likewise, we must not support Islamophobia, just because the United States and its allies have unleashed a ‘war on terror’ that has caused a predictable blowback by some Muslim groups. The perpetrators of genocide are often not held to account.

Hitler infamously said to his Generals: “who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Let’s never forget the genocide of the Herero, in South West Africa, by Germany from 1904/07. Let’s never forget the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Turkish Government, from 1915/22.

Let’s never forget the Holocaust of the Jews, perpetrated by the German Nazi government, from 1939/45. Let’s never forget the genocide by Pol Pot in Cambodia, from 1975/78, which was caused indirectly by the US war in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Let’s never forget the genocides by European invaders and colonisers in Australia, Africa and in all parts of the Americas.

Edward Horgan

Newtown,

Castletroy,

Limerick