Peter Maurer Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

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.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

Genocide

One should refer to things by their accurate designation. What is happening right now in Vietnam is a form of torture. That is why the bombings are an infamy. Of such there are many in modern history. They are often linked by name: Guernica, Oradour, Babij Jar, Katyn, Lidice, Sharpeville and Treblinka. Now there is another name to add to the row: Hanoi, the Christmas of 1972.

Genocide is also women’s business. When given the ‘opportunity’, women too will engage in it, even the bloodiest aspects of it.

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan genocide erupted in 1994 and the Darfur genocide began in 2003, that the 'international community' had learned nothing since the Holocaust.

Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.

I became interested in genocide, because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians and after the Armenians, Hitler took action.

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.

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

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.