Title: Commentary: How We Can Prevent Genocide
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Content: Work and data on this website, however, well show that democracy is at the center. The way to solve the horror of mass murder by tyrants is to foster democratic freedom. The international institutions that we should promote are those uniting and organizing democracies as an international force toward this end (see commentary 6/17/03 ). June 9, 2003
HOW WE CAN PREVENT GENOCIDE
Building An International Campaign
to End Genocide
By Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
President, Genocide Watch
When the Genocide Convention was passed by the United Nations in 1948, the world said, "Never again." But the history of the twentieth century instead proved that "never again" became "again and again." The promise the United Nations made was broken, as again and again, genocides and other forms of mass murder killed 170 million people, more than all the international wars of the twentieth century combined. Why? Why are there still genocides? Why are there genocidal massacres going on right now in southern Sudan by the Sudanese government against Dinka, Nuer, and Nuba; in eastern Burma by the Burmese government against the Karen;