Holocaust: Remember Them All

Holocaust: Remember Them All

Dear Editor:

The Valley's Armenian's are today commemorating the 86th anniversary of their holocaust that swept over their homeland when the Ottoman Turks launched a campaign to destroy their ancestors.

One and a half million Armenian Christians were slaughtered in a seven year period.

Other genocidal campaigns deserving of attention are the 50 million victims of Russia's Communist era, the 200 million who have perished under Communism in China, the 1 ½ million Cambodians who perished under the Communist Pol Pot, the half million Tutsis who perished in Rwanda. Not to be overlooked are the six million Jews who perished in Nazi Germany along with millions of other unfortunate people such as Gypsies and Croats. Nor should we overlook the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans whose nations were drive to the point of extinction by the governmental policy and military power of an earlier generation of Americans.

It is good that we are regularly reminded of the Jewish Holocaust. It is unfortunate all the others who have similarly suffered have no advocate to remind the world of the great atrocities that was imposed upon them.

Josef Stalin once observed that one man's death is a tragedy, but the death of a million is only a statistic.

We humans are capable of barbarous cruelty towards others. Most prefer to forget the genocidal crimes of which their ancestors were guilty.

We owe it to the victims to make sure their suffering is remembered. By so doing we also make the world a little safer for ourselves and our children.

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