Revisionist History

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew). I found it chilling that on this very day the Globe and Mail saw fit to print an article concerning the Rwandan Genocide with some very serious undertones:

Defence lawyers also point out that there has never been any forensic testing done on those killed. There's no doubt that hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were murdered, but there is no DNA evidence proving that most of those murdered were Tutsis; it may be that the Rwandan conflagration was more of a civil war than a genocide.

I have never heard the Rwandan massacre characterized as a civil war, and this occurred only 10 years ago. Is it any wonder then that the Holocaust, which occurred 60 years ago, is portrayed as a fabrication today? In the Globe and Mail no less.

The Holocaust was a unique episode of savagery in the history of our species, but modern genocides such as Armenia and Rwanda are also important, and we must not allow them to be forgotten either.