Pacifism has the Effect of Condoning Genocide .docVIP

Pacifism has the Effect of Condoning Genocideby Gregory Stanton, President, Genocide Watchedited August 2010It has always perplexed me that far more genocides have taken place during the Presidencies of liberal Democrats Wilson - Armenia; FDR - the Holocaust, the Ukrainian famine, Stalins purges; Carter - Ethiopia, Cambodia; Clinton - Rwanda, Bosnia; and Obama - continuation of Darfur, Burma, and the coming genocide in Southern Sudan .Democrats seem not to understand the need to use force to prevent and stop genocide. There is a pacifist aversion to use of force in the human rights movement, too. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International will never advocate it. They wont even use the word genocide as it clearly applies. Where are the Henry Jacksons, the Harry Trumans, and the JFKs of today?A pacifist aversion to use of force in the human rights movement has been fatal to millions of people. We should never forget the ICRCs silence in the face of the Holocaust or the Quakers visit to reason with Hitler. Amnesty International was unwilling to advocate the use of force to end the Rwandan genocide outside its mandate and still are today on Darfur.Im happy to get the truth told about HRW and Amnesty. I had to battle with them for years to get the Cambodian Tribunal established. The HRW Asia Director tried to kill the Cambodia Tribunal by all means at his disposal, including getting any funding for it blocked by Senator Mitch McConnell, of the Senate Appropriations Committee. HRWs long-time representative in Phnom Penh, also tried to kill support for the tribunal among Cambodian human rights groups.Now the HRW Asia Director is falsely claiming to have supported the tribunal, but giving interviews to Voice of America saying that it has become a corrupt farce. He is a liar about his previous position. He has been consistent in opposing trials for the Khmer Rouge leaders.I wrote my article, Perfection is the Enemy of Justice, published in the Bangkok Post