Remembering the fallen

A Mallia

Jan 28th 2009, 20:31

C Cassar (and all the people with the same mindset as lgalea, please take note) - "For heaven's sake, look at the furnaces in the photo. They used to feed DEAD bodies into those furnaces "

I beg to differ. One of my maternal great-uncles (who was a volunter with the British army) was one of the first soldiers on site at one such concentration camp at the end of the WWII. My mother's main recollection of seeing her uncle for the first time on his return to Malta is that of him recounting how they arrived at the camp to find people being burnt ALIVE in the ovens.

Jesmond Micallef

Jan 28th 2009, 19:06

Take for example :
In China, Falun Gong practitioners are being killed in concentration camps, their organs are then removed and sold off, even to western customers !!! This is on going, real and well organised too. Here help yourselves : http://www.david-kilgour.com/organharvest.php

The capitalistic rat race we live in today make bussiness in China very promising and attractive. Countries like Germany, the USA, France etc.....etc...have all massive trade agreements with the Chinese Government.

So lets open up here : Dear Readers , comments will be greatly appreciated

lgalea

Jan 28th 2009, 18:48

C Cassar
I didn't say that.
We should remember everyone including Maltese victims who lost their life defending our colonizers.
Can you deny the many holocausts that are still going on?
But conveniently we only remember one holocaust.

C Cassar

Jan 28th 2009, 15:34

IGalea

OK, how many Maltese were murdered because we were a colony? The Sette Giugno victims ... others?

Even one death is a tragedy. But how on earth can you equate this with the Holocaust? Are you really suggesting that there's no reason to remember the Holocaust other than Jewish vociferousness? For heaven's sake, look at the furnaces in the photo. They used to feed dead bodies into those furnaces ... bodies of people who had been systematically rounded up from across Europe and and gassed to death because of their religion. Over a million people are said to have died in Auschwitz alone. Got that? A million. That's the difference.

lgalea

Jan 28th 2009, 14:59

John Portelli
You are 100% correct.
How many Maltese persons were also killed, murdered I should say, because we were a colony and had to fight our colonizer wars? What is the difference? They were all killed.

It is only the vociferous who continue to vociferously remember and make others remember their dead who get acknowledgment of their suffering.

Anthony Cardona

Jan 28th 2009, 14:57

And the fallen to greedy capitalism and bad administration?

Jesmond Micallef

Jan 28th 2009, 13:26

Such events in the history of the human race make me shudder and reflect very deeply about what actually lies within us humans, the race I form part of.

Similar atrocities are still happening in the world. They can take different forms.

I simply pray in the hope that us humans not become indifferent or oblivious to one another, in our competitive rat race.................

The planned, collected and co-ordinated extermination of humans in a discipplined manner shows me just how thin the dividing line between civilisation and uncivilisation (madness......) really is. Places such as Auschwitz are simply proof of this.

Chris Borg

Jan 28th 2009, 12:59

5 million Palestinians killed by Jews? Source please.

Maybe when the President visits China he will visit a village destroyed by the Japanese, but since he's in Poland...

Charles Sammut

Jan 28th 2009, 11:45

@ John Portelli

We are all humans but some are more human than others. Especially if there are reparations to be had.

Isn't this starting to become counterproductive?

John Portelli

Jan 28th 2009, 10:03

Who will remember the 100 million who died under communism??
who will remember the 5 million Palestinians who died when the Jews took over???
who will remember massacre of Armenian people??
who will remember the massacre of the Native Americans??
who will remember the massacres of the chinese people by the Japanese??
who will remember the citizens of Dresden burnt alive by US bombers?
who remember the 1 million German prisoners of war in ww2 starved to death by American and Soviet troops?? what about the 10,000 German women that had their breasts cut off by the ''Liberating'' soviet troops where is their REMEMBERANCE?????????????? ARE THEY NOT FELLOW HUMANS TOO????