John Major Quotes

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

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.

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

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

Countries can’t stand by as a genocide takes place in another country.

What the Serbs are doing is an international crime. What the world is not doing is also an international crime.

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

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

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.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

Once genocide is under way, it is unlikely that anything but military force will end the horror.

We are legitimizing genocide .... We feed them while we allow them to be killed off.

National sovereignty is never an excuse for slaughtering your own people

We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again. On the contrary, we witness a catalogue of atrocities every day in wars across the globe.

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.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.

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

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

If there's a clear genocide somewhere, don't we really want to positively impact that kind of a situation? Isn't that what we're all about? Isn't that what we've always been about?

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.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.