Act now, say genocide survivors

THE Holocaust, and more recently the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides, are three of the worst crimes that man has ever perpetrated. We, survivors of each one, were lucky enough to avoid being killed.

But we knew what it meant to be ignored by the world, to be left without protection.

For each of us it meant watching while members of our families were killed in front of us. It meant witnessing rape, torture and brutality beyond belief.