Archive for April, 11 2008

HOPE is a Four Letter Word

April, 11 2008 by Valerie Hichez.

Original photo by Brian Steidle, HOPE Artists

1.5 million Armenians. 3 million Ukrainians. 6 million Jews. 250,000 Gypsies. 6 million Slavs. 25 million Russians. 25 million Chinese. 1 million Ibos. 1.5 million Bengalis. 200,000 Guatemalans. 1.7million Cambodians. 500,000 Indonesians. 200,000 East Timorese. 250,000 Burundians. 500,000 Ugandans. 2 million Sudanese. 800,000 Rwandans. 2 million North Koreans. 10,000 Kosovars. Genocides and other mass murders killed more people in the twentieth century than all the wars combined.[1]

The past couple weeks have been rather busy for me. With the Armenian Genocide March through Hollywood on April 24th coming up, I have given more and more thought to genocide. I did write an extensive paper on the topic some years ago while still in school (which I have referenced in this blog), but writing about it is one thing; hearing people’s testimonies to it and contemplating in depth the current genocide happening right now in Darfur, Sudan is another. To me, genocide is the most atrocious human act that could ever be committed.
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