John C. Danforth Quotes

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

… government mass murder, what I call democide

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

[The new Congolese] security forces committed unlawful killings, torture, beatings, acts of rape, extortion and other abuses, largely with impunity.

When Saddam Hussein buried 300,000 Shiites and Kurds alive, we did not hear a single Muslim protesting. Your silence served to acknowledge the legitimacy of these killings

[The Khmer Rouge are] the worst violators of human rights in the world.

The Dirty War La Guerra Sucia

The United States Government has blood on its hands.

Genocide

Meanwhile “our” troops during the past month, have been again at their congenial occupation of slaughtering native children and burning villages

Genocide, massacre, and human slaughter; pillage, rape, and torture have been much more common than war and revolution. But historians do not dwell on such events. And even if they do, they very rarely attach numbers to them. They prefer the glamour of war, of diplomacy, of the clash of nations and personalities.

Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.

We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.

Let's talk about the other story: the women raped and killed. I don't believe it. Certainly there was no lack of excesses, but General Tikka Khan says that in those months he often invited the population to report abuses to him directly.

Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.