Marking the anniversary of the Gaza massacre and its fallen victims, the Islamic Human Rights Commission organised Genocide Memorial Day. A day to remember man’s inhumanity to man, to commemorate genocides and genocidal acts throughout history, and to make a commitment to prevent further acts of genocide. It was an important undertaking and at its inauguration human rights activists gave short presentations remembering many of the world’s genocides from the near eradication of indigenous peoples across the Americas, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Nazi Holocaust, Palestine, the British genocide of Indians in 1857, and Bosnia.
You can watch the sessions below –
Session One
Massoud Shadjareh – Introduction
Ramdeep Ramesh – Indian War of Independence 1857
Hasan Nuhanovic – Srebrenica Genocide
Lee Jasper – Transatlantic Slave Trade
Special: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Ward Churchill Genocide of the Indigenous Americans
Special: Genocide of the Indigenous Americans
Session Two
Rabbi Beck – Nazi Holocaust survivor
Rabbi Ahron Cohen – Nazi Holocaust
Sameh Habeeb – Gaza
Special: Lessons from the Warsaw Ghetto
Imam Achmad Cassiem – Modernity, Genocide and Genocidal Acts
