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Remembering genocide

No need for words ... Let the silence speak for you.

- A visitor to Washington's Holocaust Museum

My travels over the last year have taken me to some of the vilest places on earth. I don't mean landscapes that are ugly or unpleasant or unsafe. No, these places are home to such acts of evil that they are no longer fit as venues for ordinary life. So sullied have they become in human memory that their only remaining role is to serve as reminders of how low our species can stoop, how thin the layer of what we call civilization really is.

How well do they serve that role? What lessons do they hold for the world? What lessons do they hold specifically for me, a privileged citizen of the world ...

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