60 years ago Auschwitz was liberated by Allied forces (Russians). Now they (survivors, politicians, human right groups, etc.) are celebrating the event.
As I mentioned before, the Muslim Council of Britain is boycotting this event on account of the fact that it does not include the suffering of Palestinian people.
While I think that there is no need to specifically include all other occasion of genocide in the celebration of the liberation of Auschwitz, some general genocide victims rememberance day would not be a bad idea. Problem is, it would not include Palestinians even then, for the obvious reason that no genocide is happening there.
Could include a lot of other events, though. Rwanda is definitely worth mentioning, and Darfur, although it has not quite yet achieved the same numbers, and Bangladesh and Cambodia and Stalin and Mao, and the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey. I am sure the Muslim Council of Britain would be satisfied.
Actually, considering how many Muslim organizations there are out there continuously complaining about various real, imagined, present and past abuses against Muslims, it's amazing how little we ever hear about the genocide that happened in Bangladesh in 1971. 3 million Bangladeshi got killed, which must have been the biggest mass murder of civilian Muslims in recent history. A cynic in me says that that's because they haven't figured out a way to blame that one on the Jews yet.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
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