(New York Times) Warren Hoge - The UN General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps on Monday. "I am convinced if the world had listened to those of us who tried to speak, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia, and naturally Rwanda," said Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, and Auschwitz survivor. "On occasions like this, rhetoric comes easily," Secretary General Kofi Annan said. "We rightly say, 'Never again.' But action is much harder. Since the Holocaust the world has, to its shame, failed more than once to prevent or halt genocide."
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