So yesterday was the 70th anniversary memorial of the liberation of the Auschwitz Death Camp,
More than 1.1 million Jews and 100,000 other POWs and ethnic minorities were EXTERMINATED there.
There was forced labor, beatings, torture, starvation, the gas chambers and crematoria, the electrified barbed wire and attacks dogs, the human experimentation, and every cruelty known to mankind.
At yesterdays memorial at Auschwitz 50 countries sent delegations "with heads of state leading those from:"
- Germany
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Lithuania
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Switzerland
- Ukraine (even though they are currently fighting a war with Russia!)
And even Russian President Putin "marks day at the Jewish Museum in Moscow."
It is quite mysterious, why like with the recent Unity Rally in France after the terror attacks there on Charlie Hebdo Magazine and a Jewish grocery store that left 17 dead, that the head of state for the United States was once again noticeably absent.
This time, a meeting in Saudi Arabia took precendence--why of course.
At least, the million plus murdered at Auschwitz got a (prepared) statement to mark their tragic deaths.
What does all this say about our commitment to human rights and fighting blind hatred, discrimination, racism, Islamist terorrism, and outright genocide?
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Ricardo Francesconi)
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January 28, 2015
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