Asma Jahangir Quotes

The international community could not muster the resources or the will to come to the Rwanda’s aid.

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I am angry that the international community has failed to find a permanent solution to the plight of the Rohingya. I am also ashamed that, in not speaking out loudly enough, we - humanitarians - have been complicit.

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.

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.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then NATO should carry out air strikes.

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

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

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

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.

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

I will cast Jews and Christians out of the [Arabian] peninsula and I won’t leave any one in it but Muslims.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

The Church’s obstruction of the practical solution of the Jewish problem constitutes a crime against the New Europe.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a hero. I'm a messenger. It's very important that we study genocide because it has happened again and again. We made a mistake because we didn't believe Cambodians would kill Cambodians. We didn't believe that one human being would kill another human being. That's why we allowed them to kill us. I want you to know that genocide can happen anywhere on this planet. Together we can prevent genocide from happening again.

We consider anti-Semitism as a crime against humanity. At the same time we must consider Islamaphobia as a crime against humanity.