Commitment Quote by Alcee Hastings

“Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to police a…

— Philip Gourevitch

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that…

— Allyson Schwartz

“Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building...In 1994, Rwanda was regarded in much of the rest of the world as the exemplary…

— Philip Gourevitch

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A process of genocide is being carried out before the eyes of the world.

— Pope John Paul II

The genocide (in Rwanda) was a collective act. What made it possible, what made that final political crime possible, was the absence, the erasure,…

— James Orbinski

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are…

— John Prendergast

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

— Philip Gourevitch

This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had…

— Park Geun-hye

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land,…

— Michael Ignatieff

I think if there is to be a crime of 'political genocide' it needs to be formulated with great care and precision to avoid…

— Richard A. Falk

Recognition of the Genocide is the triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred.

— Serzh Sargsyan