Never Again

“Never again” is a phrase or slogan which is associated with the Holocaust and other genocides.

A large sculpture stands in front of Dachau. Located just outside Munich, it was the first concentration camp opened by the Nazi regime. Just a few weeks after Adolf Hitler came to power, it was used by the paramilitary SS Schutzstaffel to imprison, torture and kill political opponents of the regime. Dachau also served as a prototype and model for the other Nazi camps that followed.

Six Million Jews were killed by the Nazis.  Hitler’s intent was to kill all Jews in the world. It was a genocide.  The 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention defines it as, “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” And there are many other genocidal acts unfolding in countries around the globe, right now, of which you may be unaware.

The world is bearing witness to the deliberate murder of Ukrainian civilians, for one reason and one reason only: that they were Ukrainian. When you are killed, tortured, or kidnapped, as part of an organized effort, simply for being a member of an identifiable group, that is genocide.     

NATO nations are to filled with fear to standup to Vladimir Putin.  That is how bullies dominate.

In other words “never again” is an unenforceable slogan because actions speak louder than words. Putin has proven that fact.