Interviews
Focus on Darfur: An Interview with Nicholas D. Kristof
The following interview was published in the Armenian Weekly on April 5, 2008. More than a year and a half later, its message continues to resonate. The conflict in Darfur might be “frozen” but it is not resolved. And genocide can rear its ugly head again.
NEW YORK (A.W.)—Nicholas Kristof has been an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times since November 2001. In his weekly columns, he often tackles issues of human rights abuses and genocide, and has been instrumental in creating awareness on the situation in Darfur.
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Hye, well the word ‘Genocide’ is not as effective as it shall be… How about the word ‘SLAUGHTERS’?
Since the word Genocide includes slaughtering, raping, defiling the victims – humans whose race, religion, or other ‘reasons’ allow the despots to pursue their own goals – at the cost of the lives of the innocents. Animals slaughter while seeking food…
Humans, that is , civilized humans know not to pursue slaughtering other humans. It is the uncivilized, the warriors whose need to slaughter that pursue the slaughtering, the Genocides.
Yet, it is despots who still pursue, still deny all the slaughters their cultures have wreaked to gain
their goals… these despots have not been brought to justice – the Slaughters, the Genocides
by the uncivilized leaderships continue into today… But sadly, it is the civilized leaderships of
the civilized nations who only offer ‘humanitarin aid’ – to survivors whose lives have become a
living hell… Civilized leaderships who stand aside – and watch as the Genocides continue. Civilized leaderships, civilized nations unable to end the cycle of Genocides…the Slaughtering of humans, of innocents, continues into today, now the Kurds… Whither morality?
Manooshag