Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: "All forms of intolerance are on the rise again"

Speech by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, 
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in memory of the victims of the Holocaust
 
(Auschwitz, 1st February 2011, 5.00 pm)


Dear friends,

No words can describe the despicable horror that happened here 70 years ago, in the same way as no deeds can repair the destruction of human life and dignity.

Jagland - “When the rule of law stops, tyranny begins"

Speech by Thorbjørn Jagland,
Secretary General of the Council of Europe
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Strasbourg, 27 January 2011

66 years is a long time, but then again, it is not.  It is less than a lifetime.  If the Holocaust had not happened, if one and a half million children would not have lost their lives in the most horrible circumstances, there would have been a million and a half more grandfathers and grandmothers in Europe, enjoying their retirement, spending time with their grandchildren.  But they were murdered.

One and a half million children and millions more adults, Jews, Roma, homosexuals, disabled people, political dissidents, religious minorities and others, singled out for their race, religion, political beliefs, or their sexual orientation.  Murdered.