Never Again

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Although we say "Never Again," and our daily lives continue, it is with sadness and disappointment that we provide the following statistics:

  • More than 2,000,000 are refugees in the Sahara and more than 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur. The killing continues.
  • An estimated 3.8 million people died from 1998-2003 and since, mostly from starvation and disease brought about by what has been called the deadliest conflict since WWII in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).
  • As many as 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda in 1994. An International Criminal Tribunal is underway under the auspices of the United Nations.
  • 200,000 people were killed in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzogovina in 1992-95.
  • As many as 1,700,000 people were killed in Cambodia
  • Each day 22,000 people die of starvation. That is 8,030,000 people each year (exact numbers vary among reporting agencies). Learn more.

What have we done? What difference can we make now? How can we personally take a role to put Never Again into action?

  • Politically?
  • By volunteering time and resources?
  • In other ways?

During WW 2, 38,000 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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