There are not many people who do not look for justice to war crimes. The people committing them are required to stand trial and face sentencing. It is a form justice.
There have been other genocides in our world and Rwanda is just one. There were genocides committed in Cambodia as well.
The world continues to try to bring modern day values of tolerance and brotherhood to most countries. We recognize human rights abuses as well.
We are conscience of disparities in a changing world. Some modern day injustices can be traced to Western consumerism that deprives countries and nations of people of water.
But, genocide never goes unanswered. That is the case ever since the atrocities that lead to WWII.
With the help of a Red Cross worker, former SS guard Oskar Groening
leaves the court after the verdict of his trial in Lueneburg, Germany,
Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Groening, 94, who served at the Auschwitz
death camp was convicted on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and
given a four-year sentence.
| Markus Schreiber A
July 15, 2015
By Matthew Schofeld
BERLIN
There have been other genocides in our world and Rwanda is just one. There were genocides committed in Cambodia as well.
The world continues to try to bring modern day values of tolerance and brotherhood to most countries. We recognize human rights abuses as well.
We are conscience of disparities in a changing world. Some modern day injustices can be traced to Western consumerism that deprives countries and nations of people of water.
But, genocide never goes unanswered. That is the case ever since the atrocities that lead to WWII.
With the help of a Red Cross worker, former SS guard Oskar Groening
leaves the court after the verdict of his trial in Lueneburg, Germany,
Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Groening, 94, who served at the Auschwitz
death camp was convicted on 300,000 counts of accessory to murder and
given a four-year sentence.
| Markus Schreiber AJuly 15, 2015
By Matthew Schofeld
BERLIN
In what was certainly (click here) among the last verdicts for Nazi crimes
against humanity, the 94-year-old “Accountant of Auschwitz” on Wednesday
was sentenced to four years in German prison for his role in the deaths
of 300,000 Hungarian Jews.
The sentence – about seven minutes for each of the victims – handed to Oskar Groening raised the difficult question of whether justice can ever be done for the mass murders of the Holocaust, whose victims numbered 6 million Jews and millions of other “undesirables,” including Gypsies, gays and political dissidents.
German historian Michael Wolffsohn, a professor at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, suggested that nothing short of the biblical “mark of Cain” was a sufficient punishment....
"It was hard to watch them...." That is a statement of conscience from a foot soldier. A statement that acknowledges the fact the average soldier could recognize atrocity when he saw it. Is it too much to ask that everyone walk in the shadow of Lieutenant Martynushkin and stop the crime before it starts?
January 27, 2015
By Ishaan Tharoor
When the Soviet Army's 322nd Rifle Division entered the concentration camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, they found a desolation. Mounted on shaggy ponies, they had proceeded with caution as they entered the camp, fearful of a Nazi ambush. But there was no trace of the German enemy....
..."It was hard to watch them. (click here) I remember their faces, especially their eyes which betrayed their ordeal," Martynushkin told Agence France Presse this week, ahead of the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation. Martynushkin is one of the few surviving Soviet soldiers from that day, and has spoken on numerous occasions about his experience then....
..."At first there was wariness, on both our part and theirs," he said in an interview with Radio Free Europe. "But then they apparently figured out who we were and began to welcome us, to signal that they knew who we were and that we shouldn't be afraid of them — that there were no guards or Germans behind the barbed wire. Only prisoners."...
The sentence – about seven minutes for each of the victims – handed to Oskar Groening raised the difficult question of whether justice can ever be done for the mass murders of the Holocaust, whose victims numbered 6 million Jews and millions of other “undesirables,” including Gypsies, gays and political dissidents.
German historian Michael Wolffsohn, a professor at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, suggested that nothing short of the biblical “mark of Cain” was a sufficient punishment....
"It was hard to watch them...." That is a statement of conscience from a foot soldier. A statement that acknowledges the fact the average soldier could recognize atrocity when he saw it. Is it too much to ask that everyone walk in the shadow of Lieutenant Martynushkin and stop the crime before it starts?
January 27, 2015
By Ishaan Tharoor
When the Soviet Army's 322nd Rifle Division entered the concentration camp at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, they found a desolation. Mounted on shaggy ponies, they had proceeded with caution as they entered the camp, fearful of a Nazi ambush. But there was no trace of the German enemy....
..."It was hard to watch them. (click here) I remember their faces, especially their eyes which betrayed their ordeal," Martynushkin told Agence France Presse this week, ahead of the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation. Martynushkin is one of the few surviving Soviet soldiers from that day, and has spoken on numerous occasions about his experience then....
..."At first there was wariness, on both our part and theirs," he said in an interview with Radio Free Europe. "But then they apparently figured out who we were and began to welcome us, to signal that they knew who we were and that we shouldn't be afraid of them — that there were no guards or Germans behind the barbed wire. Only prisoners."...
