You may have
missed it, but Friday just gone was holocaust memorial day. This annual event was initiated in 2001, and
marks the day when the concentration camp at Auschwitz was captured – I won’t
say liberated – by the Russian army. It
is supposed to be an opportunity to remember not only the supposed
extermination of Jews by the German National Socialist regime, but also of
subsequent acts of genocide in four countries – Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and
the Darfur region of Sudan.
To be fair,
the holocaust memorial day website does contain limited information about those
four genocides, but I am not aware that holocaust memorial day has ever been
used in this country to mark any genocide other than the one that never
actually happened.
This week my
local newspaper quotes a local MP as referring to the supposed extermination of
Jews by Hitler’s regime as the biggest mass murder in history. Here are some facts.
The number of
Jews who died under Hitler’s regime is normally cited as around six
million. Many historians believe that
Stalin’s communist regime in the Soviet Union killed far more people than that,
and likewise many historians believe that Mao Tse Tung’s communist regime in
China killed far more than six million people.
I believe that some historians maintain that more than six million
African people were murdered in the Congo Free State.
Also, I
believe that it is a matter of recorded fact that more than eight million
babies have been slaughtered in abortion clinics in this country since 1967.
This year’s
holocaust memorial day saw the film Denial released in cinemas in the United
Kingdom. It tells the story of the libel
trial which bankrupted David Irving. The
judge in that case ruled that Irving distorted evidence to suit his
agenda. I wonder if the judge in that
case would deny that eight million is a larger number than six million.
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