ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY, UN CALLS FOR UNFLAGGING VIGILANCE TO PREVENT NEW GENOCIDE

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Date: 27 Jan 2014 13:00:00 -0500
Subject: ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY, UN CALLS FOR UNFLAGGING VIGILANCE
TO PREVENT NEW GENOCIDE
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ON HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY, UN CALLS FOR UNFLAGGING VIGILANCE TO
PREVENT NEW GENOCIDENew York, Jan 27 2014 1:00PMThe United Nations
today paid tribute to the 6 million Jews and countless others
massacred in the Nazi Holocaust with a solemn ceremony in the General
Assembly Hall, a rebuke to Holocaust deniers, and a warning from
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of the perils of anti-Semitism and
hatred of any kind.

"The United Nations was founded to prevent any such horror from
happening again. Yet tragedies from Cambodia to Rwanda to Srebrenica
show that the poison of genocide still flows," he said in a
<"http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=7432">message marking
the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust, held every year on 27 January, the date on which
Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the worst German Nazi concentration and
extermination camps, was liberated in 1945.

Mr. Ban recalled his own visit to the camp in November as he walked
through the "infamous" gate bearing the metal slogan 'arbeit macht
frei' (work makes [you] free) and stood near the crematoria that
burned the corpses of so many victims. "I will never forget my visit,"
he said.

"I saw the horrific remnants of the machinery of genocide, as well as
moving images of European Jewish life in the 1930s - weddings, family
meals, rituals, other scenes of simple daily life - all extinguished
through systematic murder unique in human history.

"I saw the barracks where Jews, Roma, Sinti, homosexuals, dissidents,
prisoners of war and persons with disabilities spent their final days
in the most brutal conditions," he added, calling for unflagging
vigilance against bigotry, extremist ideologies, communal tensions and
discrimination against minorities.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, recalling her own
visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, has a "simple message" for all those who
deny that the Holocaust happened, or who engage in anti-Semitism and
other forms of religious, racial or ethnic intolerance or
discrimination.

"Visit this historic and terrible place," she said in a
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=14196&LangID=E">message
marking the Day. "It is a truly humbling and harrowing experience to
feel the chill of evil and immense tragedy that permeates its walls
and grounds. It is important to feel - not just to know in an abstract
way - where such behaviour can lead."

"Each year, on 27 January, we take time to remember the victims of the
Holocaust and to reflect on how it came about, and how the world at
large failed so dismally to prevent it. The Holocaust stands as a
searing reminder of the perils of discrimination and intolerance, and
of just how powerful and deadly the incitement to racial hatred can
be," she added, stressing the imperative of reacting quickly and
firmly discrimination and violence against individuals and entire
communities wherever they occur.

Ms. Pillay noted that despite the revelation of the full horror of the
Holocaust, the flames of hatred and persecution have risen again to
consume other countries, people and societies – from the killing
fields of Cambodia, to the forests of Srebrenica in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and the hills of Rwanda.

"Even today, in many places around the world, people are persecuted or
discriminated against because of their race, religion, origin, sexual
orientation or political opinions, and in countries such as Syria, the
Central African Republic and South Sudan, people are still being
maimed and slaughtered because of the group to which they belong," she
warned.

"We need to stop turning a blind eye to the warning signs of serious
human rights violations whenever and wherever they appear. That much,
at least, we can do to honour all those millions murdered <i>en
masse</i> by their fellow human beings, who attempted to justify war
crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide with hate-inspired
political philosophies and propaganda."

Opening the commemorative ceremony, General Assembly President John
Ashe <"http://www.un.org/en/ga/president/68/pdf/statements/1272014Holocaust_Commemoration_Jan27_final.pdf">stressed
that the Day underscored the international community's determination
that "such unfathomable horror and unspeakable cruelty" would have no
place in this world.

"Today, we are gathered here, to bear witness for all those who were
brutalized, who suffered and who died, and we are also here to bear
witness so that we the living never allow such a terrible tragedy to
occur in our shared human history," he said.

"We will not forget them, we have not forgotten them, and they have
not left us in vain. The sheer ferocity and pervasive cruelty of the
Holocaust brought to fore a deep and powerful moral imperative that
crimes of such enormity must be forever eliminated from this planet.

"This moral imperative calls on the international community to ensure
that this horrendous crime against humanity, including various
subsequent derivatives thereof, must never be repeated in any way,
shape or form."Jan 27 2014 1:00PM
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