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We dare not murder memories of genocide


By Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/we_dare_not_murder_memories_of_genocide_20070420/

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.

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