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I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities and
horrors
of Ukraine’s history.
Such alarmism tends to trivialize the actual
horrors
of the Nazi regime, and distracts attention from our own political problems.
While it acknowledged that “the EU is currently undergoing grave economic difficulties and considerable social unrest,” it highlighted the EU’s role as a beacon of hope – a democratic anchor, particularly meaningful for peoples who have lived through the
horrors
of dictatorships.
And yet, during this time, despite such horrors, Nigeria has quietly managed to achieve something truly remarkable: an entire year without a single new case of wild polio.
This litany of
horrors
– a highly abbreviated one, at that – would seem to put the case to rest.
And school attendance is essential for children’s welfare, because it gives them access to basic health-care services and protects them from the
horrors
of child labor and prostitution.
Otherwise, they risk plunging their citizens into a period of violence, destruction, and disintegration that could last several decades, and recall the
horrors
of the first half of the 20 th century.
Locked between China and Japan, the Korean Peninsula is, to use an old Korean saying, “a shrimp among whales,” and it has been subjected to untold
horrors
as a result.
Syria’s civil war, with all its horrors, highlights a different dilemma.
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the
horrors
of World War II.
“Second, though we have closed the prisons, we must seek the forgiveness of our fellow nations for the
horrors
that we committed or with which we colluded by engaging in state-sanctioned torture and “extraordinary rendition” of detainees to countries that torture.
I am appointing a commission to establish a truth and reconciliation process to put the accounting of these
horrors
before our own consciences and before the world.
After two world wars, countless civil wars, brutal dictatorships, mass expulsions of populations, and the
horrors
of the Holocaust and Hiroshima, “never again” was not just a slogan: the alternative was too apocalyptic to contemplate.
Rwanda’s horrors, and more recently Darfur, come quickly to mind.
That interpretation considered the
horrors
of Hitler’s National Socialism as a consequence of apostasy in Germany.
For example, the
horrors
of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937, when Japanese soldiers killed 45,000-250,000 Chinese – many of whom were civilians – are given little more than a brief mention.
“If things are left as they are,” writes Watanabe, “a skewed perception of history – without knowledge of the
horrors
of the war – will be handed down to future generations.”
They have seen the
horrors
of cervical cancer, with women in the prime of their lives presenting with late-stage disease and suffering slow and painful deaths.
In the Soviet Union, they helped Vladimir Lenin consolidate power, with disastrous consequences that were surpassed only by the
horrors
of Nazism, which also came to power on a populist wave.
The daily
horrors
that Aleppo’s besieged citizens are now experiencing mark a new low point, following the collapse of the latest ceasefire, brokered by the United States and Russia, which disturbingly fell apart precisely at the same time that world leaders were gathered together for the United Nations General Assembly.
When I first visited Duch’s house of
horrors
in 1990, I was 15 and full of wonder about the country where I was born but had never lived.
To call China a colonial power is to diminish the true
horrors
that were faced by the colonized communities, including by my own relatives, who were detained by the British colonial authorities.
So far, the Brexit debate in Britain has been almost entirely emotional, focusing on the historical greatness of Britain, the
horrors
of foreign tyrannies, or, conversely, fears of what might happen if the status quo were to be upset.
Finally, unlike Europe, where Germany accepted the blame for the
horrors
of WWII and helped to lead a decades-long effort to construct today’s European Union, no such historical agreement exists among Asian countries.
As a result, chauvinist sentiments have been instilled in generations that are far removed from the
horrors
of past wars, while institutions capable of fostering economic and political cooperation remain in their infancy.
After all, for all the
horrors
seen in Paris, Brussels, and San Bernardino, the victims of ISIS have been, by and large, Shia.
We know all too well what
horrors
grow from the combination of fear, hatred, and de-humanization.
Still, gay people are not executed in Israel or Texas, and it is good to be reminded of such
horrors
where they exist.
Europe endured centuries of violent religious and national struggle, culminating in the
horrors
of the two world wars, before achieving its current stable state system.
Until China sees its economic interests in Africa as tied to the continent’s political development, such
horrors
will continue.
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