Never
Again
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How Can I
Prevent Genocide? How Can I Save
A Life?
Although we say "Never
Again,"
- More than 100,000 people and perhaps as many as 400,000 people like us have been killed in Darfur
- As many as 800,000 people like
us were killed in Rwanda in 1994.
- 200,000 people like us were
killed in Bosnia in 1992-95.
- As many as 1,700,000 people
like us were killed in Cambodia
- Each day 22,000 people like
us die of starvation. That is 8,030,000 people like us each year (exact
numbers vary among reporting agencies).
What have we done? What difference
can we make now? How can we personally take a role to put Never
Again into action?
During WWII, 28,000 Jews from
throughout Europe were mass murdered in pits in Bikernieki Forest (separate
from Rumbula) outside of Riga, Latvia. Inscribed on the top of the marker
stone at the entrance to the memorial in that forest are these words...

Translation:
If one saves one life, it is as if he has saved an entire
world.
—The Talmud, from Pirkae Avot
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out — because
I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out — because
I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out — because
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me —
and by then there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor
Martin Niemöller German anti-Nazi activist
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