Saturday 27 January 2024

Holocaust Memoial Day

 


Europe, 1939-45.  6 000 000 Jewish people exterminated by the Nazis.

Cambodia, 1975-79. Over 1 000 000 murdered (the Killing Fields) by Khmer Rouge.

Rwanda,1994. 800 000 Tutsis slaughtered, mostly in the two months April and May.

Srebrenica, 1995.  7 000 Muslim boys and men killed by Bosnian Serb Forces and 20 000civilians expelled from the area (ethnic cleansing) .

Darfur, 2023. 9 000 dead and 5 600 000 displaced in Sudan.

Gaza, 2023/4. 25 700 dead so far, and 1 700 000 displaced.

 

Isaiah. (c550BCE).  Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

1 comment:

  1. You forgot some

    Ukraine, 1932-3 3,500,000 to 5,000,000 murdered through hunger.

    USSR, 1936-8 700,000 murdered in the Great Terror

    China, 1958-62 between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 Chinese killed by Communist policies

    Israel, 7th October 2023 1,200 slaughtered, more raped and taken hostage, some of whom are still held, by Hamas in an unprovoked attack — the single biggest slaughter of Jews since 1945.

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