54 Quotes About Atrocities

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery, pseudo-scientific justifications for mass murder, cluster bombs, attack submarines, napalm, intercontinental missiles , military space platforms and nuclear weapons? If memory serves it was not the Vatican.

«Tomamos una aldea... Buscábamos agua. Entramos en un patio donde habíamos divisado un pozo con cigoñal. Un pozo artesanal, tallado a mano... En el patio yacía el dueño de la casa, fusilado... A su lado estaba sentado su perro. Nos vio y comenzó a gañir. Tardamos en comprender que nos estaba llamando. El perro nos llevó a la casa. En la puerta hallamos a la mujer y a tres niños... »El perro se sentó y lloró. Lloró de verdad. Como lloran los humanos...»

Atrocities in our world, they left deep scars in our hearts.

If the trial does not go forward as planned, (the U.N. Security Council) may revert to an international tribunal, ... It is essential that those who committed the atrocities be brought to justice.

Those who are responsible for the atrocities in East Timor must be held accountable, ... So, basically it is in the hands of Indonesia.

This in not just a condemnation of the Holocaust. It is a condemnation of all the atrocities in the past and a reminder that terror still surrounds us.

All these years in the Highlands & Islands, nobody has delved into this area. People have written about it and hinted at the atrocities but we're going to talk about it. We're not going to hold back from the truth.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.