Let us hope with the latest ability of investigators to ID who committed the atrocities that they will be brought to justice soon. Heartbreaking this invasion's every victim who had a good lives ahead until Putin unleashed his dogs of Hell. Good, truth and democracy will triumph and rise above this war and those ongoing in other parts of the world and where atrocities are the same. History repeats down the centuries and there is nothing stopping it until this planet no longer hosts human beings. RIP the innocent men, women and children of Ukraine.
I found Hunting Evil helpful to get my head round the scale of the crimes that were being expediently forgotten in the focus on Cold War / Arab-Israeli conflict. Calculated mass murders of hundreds and thousands of people - not just lone hot-headed transgressions in the aftermath of battle - being put on the back-burner.
And Kenya and Cyprus and Malaya and Aden/Yemen and the Korean War and Vietnam War and a post-WW2 generation that just wanted to forget or sweep stuff under the carpet, especially in West Germany and post-Vichy France. As an Israeli I assure you that even Israel, which was pre-occupied with surviving militarily, nation-building and making the desert bloom, did close to nothing. Eichmann was an exception that proved the rule.
Thank you, and yes, this is a good point. After 1948/49, nobody thought it was their business to hunt war criminals, except later on a private freelance basis. People forget this, and get angry when they realise the CIA, for example, didn't hunt Eichmann even when they had a few (tenuous) leads – it simply wasn't in their remit.
Let us hope with the latest ability of investigators to ID who committed the atrocities that they will be brought to justice soon. Heartbreaking this invasion's every victim who had a good lives ahead until Putin unleashed his dogs of Hell. Good, truth and democracy will triumph and rise above this war and those ongoing in other parts of the world and where atrocities are the same. History repeats down the centuries and there is nothing stopping it until this planet no longer hosts human beings. RIP the innocent men, women and children of Ukraine.
I found Hunting Evil helpful to get my head round the scale of the crimes that were being expediently forgotten in the focus on Cold War / Arab-Israeli conflict. Calculated mass murders of hundreds and thousands of people - not just lone hot-headed transgressions in the aftermath of battle - being put on the back-burner.
And Kenya and Cyprus and Malaya and Aden/Yemen and the Korean War and Vietnam War and a post-WW2 generation that just wanted to forget or sweep stuff under the carpet, especially in West Germany and post-Vichy France. As an Israeli I assure you that even Israel, which was pre-occupied with surviving militarily, nation-building and making the desert bloom, did close to nothing. Eichmann was an exception that proved the rule.
Thank you, and yes, this is a good point. After 1948/49, nobody thought it was their business to hunt war criminals, except later on a private freelance basis. People forget this, and get angry when they realise the CIA, for example, didn't hunt Eichmann even when they had a few (tenuous) leads – it simply wasn't in their remit.