GENOCIDE-MAKERS TO HAVE IT
news.am
Oct 30 2009
Armenia
Hunting Nazis has always required complex skills: a command of
international law, a precise sense of the logistics of the Holocaust,
a nose for archival discovery and the readiness to wear down shoes
in pursuit of a suspect, reads Times Online Oct. 29.
This rare breed seems to be close to extinction. Public interest is
waning and funding is very limited.
Mr Boere and John Demjanjuk (both over 90 now) will stand the trial
on a charge of mass killings. The trial of a concentration camp guard
Demjanjuk is due in Munich on November 30. Skeptics may wonder what
will be achieved if the two old men are put behind bars?
The answer is, "It is the pursuit of truth that counts, not the nature
of the punishment," maintains Roger Boyes.
According to Boyes (Times journalist), "It has never been more
essential to explain to a wider public the mechanics of mass murder:
how orders are given and interpreted, how a sense of duty can mutate
into killing someone. There is also a powerful moral obligation
to demonstrate that killers, in or out of uniform, should be held
responsible for their actions. These are fundamental lessons."
"Nazi hunters are not redundant. They are essential in stirring memory
and in setting civilization’s boundaries. That is why the trials are
important — and why reporters must sit through them," Boyes concludes.
Fascism felonies are condemned as crimes against humanity having no
time limitation. Adolf Hitler — the ideologist of fascism, before
lunching his sanguineous mission in Europe said: "Who remembers today
of Armenian Genocide?" trying to justify his atrocities against many
nations, including Jews.
Presently, many states have officially recognized Armenian Genocide
as crime against humanity. In some countries denial of Genocide is
being prosecuted.