Holocaust Remembrance Day (or Yom HaShoah) falls this year on April 8.

One of the aims of the remembrance is to ensure the world doesn't forget and doesn't allow it to happen again.But it is happening again, and the world is essentially shrugging its shoulders at the unfolding genocide.

In western China there is a region called Xinjiang which is peopled by the Uighers, a Turkish peoples related to Kazaks and followers of Islam. The Chinese government has decided that this ethnic minority must be destroyed.

Vast camps have been established where around 3 million people are housed in the most appalling conditions. The main aim is to indoctrinate the ideology of the CCP into these people and destroy their culture. Murder, forced abortion and sterilisation is usual. Rape is almost routine.

Children are separated from their parents and their culture to be trained to love Chinese ways and the CCP leadership. Dark rumours of organ harvesting abound. Human hair from the inmates is a major export earner.

While all this is known and becoming more apparent, the world is averting its eyes. The Muslim world, who would declare jihad if any of this happened in a western country, have abandoned their religious brethren in favour of good relations with the CCP.

Western companies such as Nike, Apple and Google are profiting from the efforts of this slave labour force. Disney shot one of its hits in the region but assiduously avoided showing the camps and later thanked the regions administrators for their help.

While the Trump administration outed it as genocide, the Biden administration, filled as it is will Sinophiles and those making money from China (10% for the big guy), has downplayed the issue going so far as to excuse it because “culturally there are different norms”. It seems the 'norm' in China is genocide and that's a-OK with the big guy.

As the west and its values declines, these type of old world 'norms' using new world technology will expand. The Chinese century won't be pretty.

There's no disputing the enormity of Hitler's
Holocaust. But it is equally important to be as
aware of the accomplishments of the Soviet regime
which brought death to as least four times as
many Russians, Poles, Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians,
Estonians, Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Gypsies, and
Romanians as Hitler did in his eleven years
as a leader of the '1,000-year Reich.'

While half of the criminals, the Nazis, have been pursued all
over the world for their crimes, the other half, the
communist criminals, were allowed to go free.

They were, in effect, given tacit permission to
continue the operation of their concentration camps, to
expand their draconian system to include psychiatric
wards, thereby raising torture, suppression and murder
to a science. The fact that the process persisted was
vividly disclosed to the free world by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Yes, by all means lets remember the Holocaust. But also
as has been pointed out - the Yazidis, the Rohinghyas,
the Uyghurs and perhaps the plight
of the Palestinian people should also be considered.

At all times, vigilance is the price of liberty.
We must remain vigilant because while it might not be us
today, it will be some other group down the road.
The measure of our society over history is our fidelity to
our principles. We must remind our government and our
people to remain faithful to those principles or
otherwise our society, like so many in the past, will be
swept on the ash heap of history.

Well, the world has forgotten, and they will let it happen again and turn their backs - unless it happens to them. There is just as much anti-Semitism, mainly from the Left, as there ever was. Some observers say it is worse than ever.

As for Uighurs, that persecution has been going on for a long time - well before Australia and the rest of the West started trading with Communist Chinese, sucking up to them, and apologising for them because there was money in it for the usual few. And, what about Tibet? That has been going on long before our politicians buddied up with the Commos.

There is no point in dragging up events of nearly four decades ago when the same thing is being done now, and the 'free world is doing nothing about it because it might affect their economies.

If there's no point in "dragging up events"
that happened so long ago - how about -
letting go of Anzac Day, and Australia Day?
Why not throw in - Easter, Christmas, (and
many more we could scrap) . They all happened so
long ago.

Foxy,
Thje ANZACS helped fighting the Nazis, the other crowd caused the rise of the Nazis ! Big difference !

Individual,

You miss the point.

The response was to - why drag things up that
happened so long ago?

You've answered the question.