April 11, 2010

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in the US and in other parts of the world.

It is a sad memory. It is a shameful memory but it is something that must be kept alive for all future generations.

There are and were bad things happening in the world all over and most of them were healed by time. But some of them remain to remind us of the viciousness of the human race.

No living being in this universe can develop such a hatred for another as we humans are capable of. Animals don't kill for the sake of enjoyment and when they kill their prays don't suffer.

Only humans are capable of unimaginable cruelty against one another.

They say the French hate everybody. When it boils down they don't have the market for themselves. Unfortunately, everybody hates everybody else.

The reasons vary. It is greed, envy, racial, religion, politics, nationality and countless of other reasons not in this particular order.

People don't need a reason to hate. They just hate because it is easy.

Hate is not limited to the uneducated. The educated ones use it as a means to get popular support. Look at Hitler. He needed something to stir up the people. And he made the Jews the scapegoats for everything that ailed Germany.

The masses, the uneducated ones will follow anybody they just need to be pointed to the right direction. One doesn't need to be stupid to be hateful.

There was no reason for the Tutsis and the Hutus to hate and massacre each other in Africa. There is no reason for the Shiites and the Sunnis to hate and kill one and other. There was no reason for the Turks to kill the Armenians and there was no reason for the Japanese to hate the Koreans.

There was no understandable reason for the Communist Cambodians (Pol Pot) to annihilate a large portion of their own people.

And these are a few from the modern day history. The list is quite long.

Why did the Egyptians and many subsequent nations hated the Jews?

This is the world we inherited and now live in. Our heritage is nothing but hatred for one and other regardless of what we look like and where we came from and what we believe in. As we can see the French do not have exculise and inalienable rights to hatred.

But for cruelty against other humans we don't have to go anywhere for help. The cruelty the Ukrainians, Poles, Hungarians showed against the Jews during the Holocaust is without comparison. The cruelty the Tutsis and Hutus showed against one and other fills volumes.

Cruelty sometimes caused by political beliefs. One believes the enemy has to be eradicated. But more disturbing is when cruelty is caused by the people who by committing it just simply enjoying the torturing of the week and defenseless.

Today's Holocaust Remembrance Day should be a Day of Remembrance for all victims of senseless genocides because their deaths were unprovoked and uncalled for.