As A person who is of Jew, African and Native American, I feel to forget the suffering of any is a mistake. To lose the human face allows inhumane practice to exist, for who hears the ghosts' of millions.

I am an Assyrian. A semite from the middle east that the world stopped recognizing long ago. We are the Christian minority in the middle east that have seen our share of genocide. The most recent being along with the Armenians in 1914. What hurts most and why the Jews are labeled as whiners is that this is the only way to be recognized in today's world. You must make yourself be heard for the world to know and to learn. Although the Assyrians ruled the middle east over 2000 years ago we failed to learn from the people we conquered. And now we must sit back and have our churches bombed in Iraq, rebuilt with Mosques in Turkey and not recognized anywhere in the world our people run to in order to escape persecution. The squeaky wheel that gets the job done has left the memory of Assyrians off the face of the world.

Very well written. The Holocost deniers are really just looking for attention and trying to provoke people that have suffered enough. It doesn't surprise me that the head idiot in Iran would do this, he needs alot of attention to boost his ego. Americans that buy into denying that anything like this has happened should simply get out of our country and go live in those countries that are so great and treat their people so well, like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. Why not go live in a country where people are murdered and tortured for voicing their own opinion if those are the countries they love so much and speak so highly of. If America sucks so bad, why come here in the first place? Do the good people of this country a favor; leave and don't come back.

Those who deny the holocaust don't deserve a response. Your ignorance speaks for itself. The holocaust should never be forgotten. Nor should any act of genocide go unreported. However, I doubt anyone can truly comprehend how many atrocities have taken place throughout history. If listed one by one in a single book it would no doubt be hundreds of pages long. To say the Jews are not the only group persecuted is correct, but mans' inhumanity to man should never be viewed as a compitition over who suffered more. The fact that it still goes on today tells me that we have not learned much.

It is sad that genocide still occurs, despite efforts to police it. One of the worst current on-going genocide is that of the Acholi people in Northern Uganda. It is hardly heard of, primarily because the western governments, especially the US and Brittain are behind the government carrying it out. The Uganda government of Yoweri Museveni has been doing this for over 20 years, with the US government encouraging it so they can infiltrate guerrillas into Southern Sudan through unstable Northern Uganda, with the LRA providing the pretext. It is said that the CIA has information linking Uganda army officers trading arms to the LRA guerrilas whom they are supposed to be fighting, in a plan that has kept the war going for this lon. There is complete western silence even thogh the situation is worse than Darfur, becauseMuseveni is a surrogate for US activity in Africa.

I object especially to the people who call it "whining" as if to remember and remind others of the many holocausts is to be a nuisance. These things have happened and are happening today, and we all must try harder to learn the lesson before it is too late. We read about Columbus and yet we don't seem to learn from our school textbooks that an entire Caribbean population was wiped out entirely in fewer than fifty years. We ignore the fact that of the Africans who were shipped across the sea to be slaves, the majority often died enroute. Perhaps it bothers the collective conscience of some that the members of the Jewish faith have so frequently been the targets of irrational hatred. World War Two was not the only time Jews have been subjected to such treatment, but it just went deeper and further than other incidents in history.

"In [Nazi] Germany, they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me-and by that time no one was left to speak up.” -Attributed to Martin Niemoeller in John Bartlett Familiar Quotation (1982, 824)

I was a little girl in France during the war but I remember my family sadness when they would talk about the jewish family close to us that was taked by the nasy. The people that make stupid comments about the holocaust are truly ignorent even today at my age I never forget and I will never forget,I am a Buddhist because of the kindness of the philosophy and I feel sorry for all those ignorant that will never feel deeply the pain of other in order to reconize real joy when it comes

Lets not forget that one of the worlds greatest acts of genocide occured right here in the hub of democracy - the United States of America. Millions of Native Americans were torchered, enslaved, killed, and raped in the name of PROGRESS!

I'm not worried about "The Holocaust," as if there was only one. With today's cadre of North American politions and their purchasers, I worry about the next one.

THe value of human life is relative. Its a very harsh thought but Its the truth. I do recognize that the holocaust gets more press. I don't think its unfair because the loss of life, especially via genocide should always be remembered, especially by the decendants of the people who survived. However, I also realize that other people have been victimized and the same level of outrage and shame are not applied. It all becomes relative. You don't have to look beyond the borders of America to see crimes committed against a people for who they are- But those people are often told to get over it. FOr me thats the biggest insult. Genocide can strip a people of not just lives but often culture and worth. That has lasting consequences that become embedded in the socital fabric as well. - Genocide needs to become less relative- that's the solution. We sit back and watch a government kill its citizens in Sudan and do little if anything -WHy its not relative? - We don't have a big enough interest. When human life has value regardless of interest and color then the question will not be asked - "why don't you just get over it?"-

It is sad that so much is spent on remembrance of the deceased that more often than not the living is ignored. The homeless, improvised unemployed Americans whose directly and indirectly fought for the salvation of those enshrined and yet they themselves angry and forgotten. Then let us not forget the 15 million Incas and millions of Aztec and Mayans where genocide has been complete by the Latinos and Portuguese where Latino history has been rewritten to make them look like the victims in another man’s country. Are they any less human? The truth is that more time need be spent helping the living as oppose to the dead who can do no one any good.

John, Florida - I certainly did not mean to imply that the genocide performed by the Nazis was not real. I meant actual meaning "happening now" or per the dictionary: "existing now; present; current". You know, genocidal action that we still have a chance to stop. Perhaps a better choice of words next time.

Before we point a finger at Turkey, for purely political reasons, for what occurred during the collapse of the Ottoman empire, which also resulted in a huge death toll for Turks, what about the United States admitting that what it did to the American Indians was also genocide. We always conveniently forget about that. I am not Turkish, Muslim, Armenian or native American.

I am a Jew and have been educated about the holocaust my entire life. I have spoken with survivors and known many friends with family members who died in Europe at that time. I know that I have distant relatives who died in the holocaust. You get the point. It is my duty as a Jew to continue to talk and educate the public so another genocide never happens again to any people. Some say that we Jews whine too much about the holocaust. I say, they should be very thankful they don't have to. The minute we Jews stop telling people about the genocide that happened during WWII in Europe, or "whining" about it, is the minute people stop remembering why it is important genocide never happens again. So whether you are Jewish, Kurdish, Armenian, African, Iraqi, Native American, or any other people who have been wronged by society, it is your DUTY to educate and talk about what happened or "whine as people call it", so GOD willing, Genocide never happens again.

Genocide is real and has happened and still happens to this day not just to the Jewish, the Native Americans, or th Sudist its happing to every one in the world, when you look deep into the stitistics, you find more and more but if you are not doing anything to change it then there is no reason to say one other is wrong to atack someone elses words of it ''does not matter'' they are the same as your actions

The Assyrian's aren't exactly innocent either (like the Armenians, they were used as Power Politic Pawn's -- though not nearly as successful from a marketing and P.R. standpoint) there are Scholarly Academic Turkish Journal's that deal with this issue (and why there wasn't an "Assyrian 'Genocide'"). Furthermore, who remembers the hundreds of thousand's (if not millions, depending on what time frame one uses) of Ottoman muslims, [who can classified as Laz, Hemshin-Hemshin's, Abkazian's, Circassian's, Turk's, Kurd's, Azerbaijani's, Chechen's, dagestani's, Crimean Tatar's, Nagoy Tatar's, to name a few] who were slaughtered and/or ethnically cleansed at the hands of the Armenians and Russians -- there is a book [and one of the few people that has actually given a damn about Muslims -- in this case Ottoman Muslims and the "other side" of the "so-called 'Armenian genocide'"] called "Death and Exile: The ethnic cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922"). I happened to have Circassian and Turkish ancestry. One of the reason's that there are a lot of them in Turkey (as well as in Jordan, Libya, Israel -- to name a few of the significant diaspora's of Circassians in the Middle East and in North Africa -- who fled to lands [from the Caucausus that were still at the time under Ottoman Control [what few that were left]). People should take a look at the following before commenting on a/the "so-called Armenian genocide": ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/intro/relocation.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/definition.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/reasons.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/telegram.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/law.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/start.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/regions.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/subjected.html ** http://www.ermenisorunu.gen.tr/english/relocation/measures.html It should be noted that nothing of the sort was provided for or implemented (in terms of compensation) for the Circassians, Abkhazians, Crimean Tatars, etc. by the various Czarist Russian governments. See the rest under the index of "Relocation"

Sean torrington: i did not realy think you meant it the way it sounded. I have read youre comments before and we may not agree on all the subjects but we are not that far from agreement on most. I just take a little more of a hardline on some of than you do. No problem .Do you live anywhere near TOMMY'S BIKE SHOP??

The Holocaust was a very sad and disturbig point in history and yes you have every right to be upset, what I dont understand is why we constantly have to hear about it , every one learns about it in school already. Yes thoes who forget the past are doomed to repeat it but dont live in it and dwell on it, I am an African American female and Im not going to sit here and complain about all the horrid shit thats happened to my ancestors and what still happens to African American people every day. No matter where you are you will always pick up a news paper and read about some innocent bystandard(African American) being killed or attacked for no apparent reason no matter what genocide, racism and any other form of negativity towards a specific race has happened and there will always be some form of it and theres nothing we can do about it just never forget it and make sure it never happens again. Now dont get me wrong my heart goes out to all thoes who lost their lives, a loved one or if you are a Holocaust survivor all Im saying is your not the only ones.

The Holocaust was a very sad and disturbig point in history and yes you have every right to be upset, what I dont understand is why we constantly have to hear about it , every one learns about it in school already. Yes thoes who forget the past are doomed to repeat it but dont live in it and dwell on it, I am an African American female and Im not going to sit here and complain about all the horrid shit thats happened to my ancestors and what still happens to African American people every day. No matter where you are you will always pick up a news paper and read about some innocent bystandard(African American) being killed or attacked for no apparent reason no matter what genocide, racism and any other form of negativity towards a specific race has happened and there will always be some form of it and theres nothing we can do about it just never forget it and make sure it never happens again. Now dont get me wrong my heart goes out to all thoes who lost their lives, a loved one or if you are a Holocaust survivor all Im saying is your not the only ones.

I think everyone who talks about what happened to their people, has that right. Keep it alive and never forget. This teaches our children about the struggles that our people have and still are enduring. As a black american, I come from a mixture, German, Indian and African. I don't know much about my german past due to my great-grand father being a not so good person. But what I do know, is at one time or another every nation, ethic group, race etc.. have endured something. I make sure that my son knows about slavery and how america was built off of the backs of Indians and Africans. I am not about to argue over who got it the worst. The point is, is that it happened and we all should learn from it, prevent it from happening again by educating our youth, who now a days need the most help! Forgive but don't forget!

Christopher Kidwell is an idoit! People were cremated. There are ashes for most of the people murdered.

The Holocaust was a very sad and disturbig point in history and yes you have every right to be upset, what I dont understand is why we constantly have to hear about it , every one learns about it in school already. Yes thoes who forget the past are doomed to repeat it but dont live in it and dwell on it, I am an African American female and Im not going to sit here and complain about all the horrid s*** thats happened to my ancestors and what still happens to African American people every day. No matter where you are you will always pick up a news paper and read about some innocent bystandard(African American) being killed or attacked for no apparent reason no matter what genocide, racism and any other form of negativity towards a specific race has happened and there will always be some form of it and theres nothing we can do about it just never forget it and make sure it never happens again. Now dont get me wrong my heart goes out to all thoes who lost their lives, a loved one or if you are a Holocaust survivor all Im saying is your not the only ones.

it is astonishing to me that as we are dicussing the evil of genocide and its deniers, someone writes in to deny the Armenian genocide. This historical fact is WELL DOCUMENTED by ALL the consulates, ambassadors and embassies of the nations present in Turkey at the time of the massacres. These are eyewitness accounts of the most henious ans revolting acts of torture and killing of unarmed, innocent men,women and children forced to march across the middle east deserts to NO DESTINATION with the intention of killing and starving them on the way. For you to deny all my relatives' deaths is beyond insensitive and cruel. You might as well as well proclaim yourself a nazi and deny the ENTIRE holocaust. Read your history, investigate all the diplomatic records and eyewitness testimonials from diplomats, clergy and yes, even Turkish residents at the time. When history is denied and re-written, then we do repeat it: at the Nazi meeting when the "final solution" was planned, a general asked Hitler what the world would say about the extermination. His response? "Who remembers the Armenians?" EVERY Armenian in this world had relatives slaughtered in Turkey, and we know the truth. I fell pity for anyone denying ANY holocaust. Not just for their lack of historical facts, but the hurt and open wounds their words (unintentional or deliberate) inflict on the millions of families and survivors of every genocide. Until you feel this pain, words cant describe it. This is what makes citizens to rise up and fight as they did in the Warsaw ghetto as well as other Nazi-occupied territory. Just like they had to in Turkey to stop the government ordered massacres. And yes, those letters from Turkish leaders ordering the killings do EXIST. Please visit the National Library of Congress as well as the government libraries of ANY county that had and embassy or consulate in Turkey at the time. And there are photos too, just like ones taken of Nazi victims, showing all the defiled, tortured and beheaded bodies. The "smoking gun" has and always will be there. It's so sad thjat anyone in this day and age is still trying to deny any genocde committed against an entire race, country or religion. I wonder how these revisionists can look themselves in the eye day after day withno conscience or remorse. We really do have a long way to go...

Well said. It is very important to know and remember history. You must be able recognize patterns so that the wrong ones are not repeated.

I think it's very important to remember the Holocaust for some many reasons, it's important to remember the past. I am from an Armenian background there was a genocide done by the Turkish Government that killed 1.5 million Armenians in 1915. They covered up the killing of 2/3 of entire population and the world did nothing. Hitler called it his Blueprint. In a speech in 1938 he said "after all who speaks of the Armenians" "no one remembers the Armenians therefore no one will remember the Jews." Even today the Turkish Government denys this ever happened. They have lobbied other governments to keep this fact out of History. Even last year PBS who was going to show a documentary on the Genocide had an issue with Turkish Groups protesting that was not a historical fact. I ask what happend to all of my relatives did they disapear into air. My grandparents siblings, parents and cousins were killed in this. This is why remebering the Holocaust is so important and all Genocides in general. Because if the world remembered the Armenians, perhaps not as many Jews would of suffered. So we have to remember all of our pasts so we can help protect other groups in the future from systematic exstinction.

Zoran, I find it funny that you are going on about the serbs and how they were victims of genocide, yet you fail to mention the fact that bosnians in Srebrenica were victims of genocide by the Serb milita and that over 8000 bosnians were killed in srebrinica in one bloody day by the serbs, brutally killed, I was a witness along with my parents of the mass killings done by the serb militia in eastern bosnia, while your father at the time had you hidden away in a safe place away from the horror. How pathetic and hypocritical you all are!

Zoran, I find it funny that you are going on about the serbs and how they were victims of genocide, yet you fail to mention the fact that bosnians in Srebrenica were victims of genocide by the Serb milita and that over 8000 bosnians were killed in srebrinica in one bloody day by the serbs, brutally killed, I was a witness along with my parents of the mass killings done by the serb militia in eastern bosnia, while your father at the time had you hidden away in a safe place away from the horror. How pathetic and hypocritical you all are!

As a priviliged American I know that will never have to suffer like the Jews, Tutsis, Cambodians, Somalians, and ...let's not forget the genocide happening to the African tribes in Darfur. It seems that although we hear about atrocities in the news, so many hundreds of thousands more seem to die before the world responds. I would like to be able to do something to help...writing a check just doesn't seem a genuine response. I am grateful that I have never had to experience such horrors, and I respect the right of those who've been so totally wronged to report it in any way they choose. John Donne wrote that "any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind...and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee." We are all diminished by this. It should be reported and we should have the strength to respect their right to speak of it, name it for what it is and work for change.

Do NOT Forget the First Genocide of the 20th century. The Turks killed over 1,500,000 Armenians and took all their posessions in 1915. My Dad, Uncle and Aunt were survivors. Their stories are the same as you all have heard. "Starving Armenians" marching the Turkish deserts of Der Zor. Today many governments are still toying with the idea whether to accept this as reality, even after our ambassadors witnessed the tortures and killings and the plunder. Contact your congressman and ask if they recognize the Armenian Genocide. I guarantee you that you will be shocked! The time is NOW! Let's not turn the other way! Let's change the saying.."History REPEATS Itself".

I think for anyone to say these things never happened.Is ignorant and to some extent evil. The evadence of these things are every where. I work at a senior center. And know men that walked those camps in germany at the close of the war. And to watch men that i respect and trust so much tremble when they tell what they say there is all the evedence one needs to know these things where real. So anyone that would say that it's all a lie find someone that say it and listen to there stories and maybe then you could but your stupidity aside and see.

Israel has received FAR MORE aid from the United States than any other country, i.e., billions each year, adding to a grand total of 85 billion since 1949 (135 billion when adjusted for interest). The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Of course Jews "whine" more than others, because they have the media outlet to do so. Wouldn't it be wonderful if this same energy was spent on preventing discrimination against the Palestinians or addressing ongoing genocide in Darfur!

ALL of the Holocausts are terrible and should be remembered. Not just the Jewish one. The term "The" Holocaust should not be synonymous only to Jews. "The" War does not apply to only one war therefor The Holocaust should not apply to only one race.

Holocaust victims should never use the Holocaust as empowerment over others.

Mr. Martin Fletcher in Tel Aviv, Not only are Jews percieved to be unique in thier ability to whine-- in both loudness and duration-- but also in thier inability to see thier own arrogance and racism. ("I'm a Jew, my ancestors were victimized, therefore I can't possibly be wrong and unjust in the way I treat my Palestinian bretheren"). Of course the Holocausst was a tragedy. But what are you going to do about it?

To Christopher Kidwell: I see where you are trying to go with the math, but remember that the camps were very efficient industrial machines. There was room because the bodies were being incenerated. Not always in the ovens, sometimes on huge pyres. Also, this process went on for several years spread across many camps. You will never find the mass graves, those souls were lost in the smoke. Oh yeah, and the Germans were very meticulous with their measurements and list. They left us plenty of records to estimate the death rate, size, and scope of their program. I think people don't want to believe, or can't, because the numbers are just too staggering. I don't want to take anything away from the 6 million you reference, but think about the total killed across the world at that time. In a single month, the Japanese killed 200,000 in China, many of those with swords. Easy enough to believe that the Nazi's killed millions across a continent over a period of years. Then as now, the numbers are staggering. The period of 1940-1945 was absolutely horrific and there is no way to fully absorb the numbers of dead. And think of how the pace quickened as those years flew by, what took a month for the Japanese took three days and two bombs by the end of the war. We should forget nothing about that era, more than anything other factors it gave birth to the world in which we live today. We must accept both the horror and the triumphs of that generation and take those lessons with us to the future.

not trying to belittle any of these, but can you say AMERICAN INDIAN

People tend to deny such human horror for several reasons. Many can not believe that such attrocities could be commited by people, and therefore downplay those actions, such as those people who believed that the blacks wanted to be slaves and were better off, or that the indians wanted to live on a reservation, or that the Jews had it comming because they didnt fight back. This is the only way for some to accept what was happening. Another reason is the shear number of victims. 6 million jews under Hitler, 50 million russians under Stalin, these are numbers that seem unbelievable in their scope, so people decide that yes, some attrocities happened, but nothing to the extent that are talked about. (the beliefe that 6 million couldnt be burried is debunked when you simply realize that there were ovens burning bodies 24 hours a day) Many deny it for political reasons. This is the main reason for most genocides to happen. When political figures, such as those in Germany of the 1930's or those in Bosnia of the 1990's or those currently in Iran can deny former attrocities it makes it easier for them to commit the same attrocites on the "other" in the future. This becomes ironic later when, to paraphrase the holocost scholar Michael Bernbaum, a country like Iran that was insturmental in helping Jews durring the holocost now deny it happened, and Germany, perpertrators of the crimes have laws against its denial. I believe that the biggest denial is the average person believing that it can never happen again. That the perpatrators of these crimes were monsters that we would now recognize. Hitler, Stalin, Mao and all of the others who have commited these crimes are not monsters, but ordinary people. Christopher Browning makes this point brilliantly in "Ordinary Men", about one of the German battallions that did much of the killing and deprotations outside of the camps. These were ordinary people from, if it were America, what we would call middle American towns. In the movie "Blood Diamonds" a mercenary is asked if in thinks that there are good people and bad people. He answers "No. There are only people. It is their actions that make them good or bad." I would add to that that it is also our inaction that can make us bad. Those of us who see the atrocities that have happened and contiue to happen around the world without speaking out against that can count ourselves as part of the problem and as guilty as those in Germany who allowed slave labour to make most of their goods while remaining silent to the crimes being commited. "We had no way of knowing" or "What could we have done" can be no excuse when there are those who stand up and speak out. We study the Holocost not because it was the only genocide, but because it was the best recorded. We find durring the atrocities ordinary people reaching the hights of human kindness and honor, and those who fall into the abyss of darkest spots in the human soul. Both are actions that each one of us can fall into. Reading the histories of both sides of a conflict will help us understand how these things escalate. Whether it is the history of Jews and Europe, the Japanese and China or Korea, the Americans and most of the cultures we have encountered, it is important to understand how the historical debate is framed in each culture to know how we can learn from it.

If the Jews were to LEARN anything from the Holocaust, wouldn't it be that humans should work hard to STOP genocide? Why doesn't ISRAEL apply the billions it gets each year from the U.S. toward stopping ongoing genocide? Or don't they like Africans since they're not part of the chosen tribe? Why spend your life in meloncholy retrospect when you actually be doing something to help. Why not help yourself gain perspective by writing an article about the plight of the Arab Palestineans?

Lost in much of this discussion of WWII Holocaust and WWI Armenian Genocide is that role that Israel and AIPAC (the American Israeli Political Affairs Committee) play in genocide denial . . . that's right, denial. Israel knows there was an Armenian Genocide (scholars like Elie Wiesel and Israel Charny have been very vocal and out in front of this issue) however, due to "realpolitik", Israel has consistently and "officially" denied that there was an Armenian Genocide in order to placate Turkey (their regional ally). Sadly, US Jewish lobbies have also engaged in this ironic & hypocritical genocide denial in the past, namely AIPAC, but also ADL and B'nai B'rith, who have in the past lobbied fiercely against Armenian Genocide comemmorative resolutions in the US Congress. That is the bur in the saddle for many Armenians, why do Jewish groups want to keep their genocide experience "unique" when the Armenian Genocide was a blueprint for the Holocaust? As Hitler said to his troops before invading Poland, "After all, who still speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians". It is high time for Israel and AIPAC to acknowledge what they know and let Turkey come to terms with its past. No Turk wants to admit his grandfather was a murderer or rapist, but to deny the crime is to abet the crime. An Armenian cannot forgive and forget when those who inherited the perpetrators government do not ask for forgiveness.

A few quotes that those who make such comments about these atrocities never having occurred. "The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears and eyes." "By the skillfull and sustained use of propaganda, one can make people see heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise." "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventuallu, they will believe it." These are attributed the the master of brutality himself, Adolph Hitler. Go figure!

We need people like Martin Fletcher to keep reminding the world that the Holocuast did occur killing six million innocent Jews and millions of other victims. Becuase this history has been taught to so many people, the world spoke up recently when genocide occured in Darfur. Generations of people will never again be bystanders because of what we have learned from reading and studying this time period. We must not forget our history or get over it, because history tends to repeat itself. Thank you Mr. Fletcher for reminding us to "never forget."

scream until you're heard, my friend. make such a noise that no one can ignore, no one can forget- so that it doesn't continue, so that it never happens again. scream.

It is very important to remember the victims and the pain of the armenian genocide, the Holocaust,the Serbs in Croatia during WW2, the crimes of the Belgians in the Congo, the crimes of the germans in Numibia, the Indian caste system, Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebenica and what was done to the Native Americans and black slaves in our own country, but if action is not taken immediately by the world community when signs of genocide pop up today or in the future, then we are not properly honoring those innocent victims and have broken the pledge of "Never Again". Did this inspire anyone to line up to help Darfur? I didn't think so. As a side note, the uniqueness of the Holocaust which deserves mention is that evil was transformed into a well oiled industrial sized killing machine at the expense of our jewish brothers and sisters and Gypsies and others classified as "undesirables". I state this objectively as a gentile American whose family is from India.

Dear Mr. Fletcher, I was extremely moved by your memories of your father. How he lighted the candle in memory of people. I believe that nobody should never ever forget what happened to the Jews during World War II. That is part of history and everyone should understand what those people went through during that time. Being catholic I am starting Holy Week this week at my church. Leading up to Easter this Sunday. A special time in the church calendar. I would like to say Mr. Fletcher that as I write this comment it is early evening and I would like to wish you and your family a Happy Passover.

When the Indian is free... only then will there be no more wars. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution "involuntary servitude" does not apply to Indians. Our Indian Treaties of 1868 unilaterally broken...we were forced on reservations where many of us remain today under martial military rule...how long do the great White Chiefs in Washington plan to nurse us? From cradle to grave, generation to generation? How is it that my children's children's children are wards to a federal government in this the space ages of our ancestors? The American Indian is still subjected to continuing acts of GENOCIDE.

The pain of the Armenians is still fresh not only because Turkey will not admit to its crimes, but also because the US Government will not recognize that the Armenian genocide ever occurred. We Americans are very fast in PRETENDING to be the defenders of human rights, but when it comes to our strategic allies such as Turkey, we have a tendency to play favorites. I remember during the first campaign of President Bush, I received a flyer in the mail that promised if elected, he would make sure the US Government would recognize the Armenian genocide. As we all know, that has not happened as of today. So, not only do we not support the victims of crimes against humanity, but if needed, we will exploit them. This is unacceptable conduct in part of the only super power in the world and a country that is trying to promote democracy and human rights all over the world. When it comes to human rights, there is no playing favorites or cherry-picking. Everyone has to play by the same rules and we as the lone super power in the world, have to hold everyone to the same standards. INCLUDING OUR STRATEGIC ALLIES IN NATO.

lets not forget a jewish term....maybe is we remember that we will get involved where is genocide before 6 million parish again

For those of Jewish heritage, I commend your commitment to keeping genocide in front of the rest of us, and not allowing us to forget. The irony, however, is that the reason most Americans are willing to continue to hear you is that it is cool for the Holocaust to remain at the forefront since we Americans were the "heros" that ended it all. What I would love to see is the same initiative on the part of Native Americans to confront the very government and people who CAUSED their genocide. But this will probably never happen, as the nation that wants to believe it is full of "heros" so completely decimated the Native American people that they no longer have the resources to confront and make the rest of us face--and rectify--the wrongs we ourselves committed. I will also address the next comment that my father would make, and which many of those trying to deny the Holocaust would make as well... "It was your grandparents, not you, so you aren't the victim. And it was my grandparents, not me, so I'm not the perpetrator. So you should just let it go." Except that I benefit every single day from land ownership, among countless other resources ripped away from Natives whom we either displaced or dismembered.

I think the best way to prove to all those 'people=humans' the actual occurance of Holocaust, - is to allow them to experience such action on themselves omitting deadly consequences. We should make them spend @ least 1 week in humiliation within the walls of any still standing camps, & then escort them to the ovens/ or gas chambers (no farther actions taken of course); once they'll feel this on their own skin, they 'll reconsider their disbelieves. My great ant was taken 1st into the getto, & then into the camp when she was 13, miracalously she didn't die, but she has a number tatooed on her arm, & it's the 1st thing I see in front of me = 13 year old girl behind the fence with the number tatooed on her arm, when someone mentions wht Holocaust never happenned.

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