Why Are They Getting Away with Genocide?

Abstract

Whenever we hear an account by a survivor, we are faced with a new reality. As Elie Wiesel once remarked: ‘Whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness. We then no longer have the luxury of silence or indifference. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian executed by the Nazis, put it well when he said_ ‘not to speak is to speak, not to act, is to act. And it really is impossible to hear the stories and testimonies of witnesses and to believe that life can go on just as before.