Jan Egeland Quotes

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

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

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

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

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

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.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

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

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.

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.

A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

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

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.'

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

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

We closed the roads and mountain passes that might serve as ways of escape for the Tartars [Turks], and then proceeded in the work of extermination. Our troops surrounded village after village. Little resistance was offered. Our artillery knocked the huts into heaps of stones and dust, and when the villages became untenable and the inhabitants fled from them into the fields, bullets and bayonets completed the work.

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

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

Genocide

Genocide and oppression not confined to the pages of history or memorials like Yad Vashem. They are taking place today, in our world. Nearly half a million black Africans have died in Sudan's Darfur region, systematically targeted for murder, rape, or displacement by government-backed Arab "Janjaweed" militias, simply because of their race. This is a genocide, taking place right now. We have the power to stop it. But action to date by the civilized world has been utterly insufficient.

Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese... and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.

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