Word: holocaust
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...power play has presented those responsible for the relief effort with a dilemma: Should they cease their humanitarian work and put at risk the lives of innocent refugees, or accept the fact that they must hand over millions of dollars in supplies to the perpetrators of Rwanda's recent holocaust, who hope to use the camps as headquarters for rekindling a bloody civil...
...withdraw, aid workers note that short of stopping relief altogether, their hands are tied. Many recall Cambodia in the late 1970s, when foreign food assistance to refugees on the Thai border enabled the defeated Khmer Rouge to live and fight another day. Rwandans who have already suffered a holocaust now face a choice between starvation or the resumption...
...This is not the first time biology has been used to structure a hierarchy of man," he said. He added that similar views held by eugenicists in the 1920s and 1930s led to the Holocaust...
When I was in Israel, I had a chance to visit a museum that commemorates the Holocaust. The point it makes is "Never again." Never again seems to me to be the most important lesson Haitian children can learn. We must transcend the past without drowning ourselves in forgetfulness or vengeance or impunity. I want to erect monuments to our martyrs and perhaps establish a museum like...
That was the image of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, bloodied but unbowed -- and unenlightened -- after his humiliation in the 1991 Gulf War, when a U.N. mission led by the U.S. drove his troops out of Kuwait and kindled a holocaust of as many as 100,000 Iraqis. Last week Saddam gave hints he wanted a rematch, massing 64,000 troops, including two Republican Guard units, on the Kuwaiti border. "It's pretty much the same scenario that unfolded two weeks before he invaded Kuwait," noted a senior Clinton Administration official. "It's unlikely they could reach Kuwait City, but they...