April 19, 2007

Amnesia of the past foreshadows amnesia of the future. Forget yesterday\’s tragedy and the threat to tomorrow is denied. Forget the first genocide of the 20th century — the murder of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 — and the memory and atrocities of the first genocide of the 21st century in Darfur turn invisible, and the world response is muted.