I've just finished watching the epic documentary series Auschwitz - The Nazis And The Final Solution, which I bought after visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau while covering the Pope's death from Poland a couple of months ago.
The engrossing series is a searing reminder of man's capacity for unimaginable acts of inhumanity against fellow man.
It would be comforting to consign the horrors of Auschwitz to history -- but from Cambodia to Darfur, crimes against humanity continue.
One of the most striking statistics in the Auschwitz series is that 90% of the SS troops who worked at the camp were never called to account for their crimes.
In a few weeks time I'll go on assignment to Bosnia for the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre -- Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
A decade on, the alleged architect of the massacre, Ratko Mladic, is still free.
History repeats itself.
The engrossing series is a searing reminder of man's capacity for unimaginable acts of inhumanity against fellow man.
It would be comforting to consign the horrors of Auschwitz to history -- but from Cambodia to Darfur, crimes against humanity continue.
One of the most striking statistics in the Auschwitz series is that 90% of the SS troops who worked at the camp were never called to account for their crimes.
In a few weeks time I'll go on assignment to Bosnia for the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre -- Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
A decade on, the alleged architect of the massacre, Ratko Mladic, is still free.
History repeats itself.
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