Ethnic Cleansing Quotes

“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the worlds greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.”
― Richard Weikart, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics and Racism in Germany

“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been 'sold' to me as an essentially secular and democratic one. The idea was a haven for the persecuted and the survivors, a democracy in a region where the idea was poorly understood, and a place where—as Philip Roth had put it in a one-handed novel that I read when I was about nineteen—even the traffic cops and soldiers were Jews. This, like the other emphases of that novel, I could grasp. Indeed, my first visit was sponsored by a group in London called the Friends of Israel. They offered to pay my expenses, that is, if on my return I would come and speak to one of their meetings.

I still haven't submitted that expenses claim. The misgivings I had were of two types, both of them ineradicable. The first and the simplest was the encounter with everyday injustice: by all means the traffic cops were Jews but so, it turned out, were the colonists and ethnic cleansers and even the torturers. It was Jewish leftist friends who insisted that I go and see towns and villages under occupation, and sit down with Palestinian Arabs who were living under house arrest—if they were lucky—or who were squatting in the ruins of their demolished homes if they were less fortunate. In Ramallah I spent the day with the beguiling Raimonda Tawil, confined to her home for committing no known crime save that of expressing her opinions. (For some reason, what I most remember is a sudden exclamation from her very restrained and respectable husband, a manager of the local bank: 'I would prefer living under a Bedouin muktar to another day of Israeli rule!' He had obviously spent some time thinking about the most revolting possible Arab alternative.) In Jerusalem I visited the Tutungi family, who could produce title deeds going back generations but who were being evicted from their apartment in the old city to make way for an expansion of the Jewish quarter. Jerusalem: that place of blood since remote antiquity. Jerusalem, over which the British and French and Russians had fought a foul war in the Crimea, and in the mid-nineteenth century, on the matter of which Christian Church could command the keys to some 'holy sepulcher.' Jerusalem, where the anti-Semite Balfour had tried to bribe the Jews with the territory of another people in order to seduce them from Bolshevism and continue the diplomacy of the Great War. Jerusalem: that pest-house in whose environs all zealots hope that an even greater and final war can be provoked. It certainly made a warped appeal to my sense of history.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect souls that seek imperfection vs. perfection, in an imperfect world where God asks us to seek perfection for our imperfect souls.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilise the region. And I thought - destabilisation of fascist regimes is a good thing. Why should the left care about the stability of undemocratic regimes? Wasn't it a good thing to destabilise the regime of General Franco? It was a time when the left was mostly taking the conservative, status quo position - leave the Balkans alone, leave Milosevic alone, do nothing. And that kind of conservatism can easily mutate into actual support for the aggressors. Weimar-style conservatism can easily mutate into National Socialism. So you had people like Noam Chomsky's co-author Ed Herman go from saying 'Do nothing in the Balkans', to actually supporting Milosevic, the most reactionary force in the region. That's when I began to first find myself on the same side as the neocons. I was signing petitions in favour of action in Bosnia, and I would look down the list of names and I kept finding, there's Richard Perle. There's Paul Wolfowitz. That seemed interesting to me. These people were saying that we had to act. Before, I had avoided them like the plague, especially because of what they said about General Sharon and about Nicaragua. But nobody could say they were interested in oil in the Balkans, or in strategic needs, and the people who tried to say that - like Chomsky - looked ridiculous. So now I was interested.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of Jewry was the necessary condition for the rise and expansion of Nazism, so the ethnic cleansing of Germans was a precondition for the Stalinization of Poland. I first noticed this point when reading an essay by the late Ernest Gellner, who at the end of the war had warned Eastern Europeans that collective punishment of Germans would put them under Stalin's tutelage indefinitely. They would always feel the guilty need for an ally against potential German revenge.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“Bosnia's war had its visual hallmarks. Parks that were turned into cemeteries, refugee families piled onto horse-drawn carts, stop-or-die checkpoints with mines across the road. The most hideous hallmark of all was the blackened patch of ground in the center of town. It always meant the same thing, a destroyed mosque. The goal of ethnic cleansing was not simply to get rid of Muslims; it was to destroy all traces that they had ever lived in Bosnia. The goal was to kill history. If you want to do that, then you must rip out history's heart, which in the case of Bosnia's Muslim community meant the destruction of its mosques. Once that was done, you could reinvent the past in whatever distorted form you wanted, like Frankenstein.

p. 85”
― Peter Maass, Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War

“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway, that made such mass starvation thinkable. In German prisoner-of-war camps for Red Army soldiers, the death rate over the course of the war was 57.5 percent. In the first eight months after Operation Barbarossa, it must have been far higher. In German prisoner-of-war camps for soldiers of the western Allies, the death rate was less than five percent. As many Soviet prisoners of war died on a single given day in autumn 1941 as did British and American prisoners of war over the course of the entire Second World War.

pp. 181-182”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“The Unholy Trinity (Naskaristana 2533)

History of the world written by colonizers
is no different from map of the world
made by flat earthers -

just like flat earthers flatten the globe
to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten
civilizations into savages,
philosophies into myths,
cosmologies into coincidences,
lived holiness into paganism,

erasure into expansion,
trafficking into trade,
native resistance into terrorism,
and colonial terrorism into civilizing.

The vatican, british empire, and uncle sam,
these three are the apex predator of planet earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“History of the world written by colonizers is no different from map of the world made by flat earthers - just like flat earthers flatten the globe to fit their delusion, colonizers flatten civilizations into savages, philosophies into myths, cosmologies into coincidences, lived holiness into paganism, erasure into expansion, trafficking into trade, native resistance into terrorism, and colonial terrorism into civilizing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Letter to The Braindead (Naskaristana 2532)

The only reason the west makes such
a song and dance about antisemitism,
is not because it's a human rights issue,
but because it's the only narrative where
the colonizers emerge as the good guys -

but place indigenous populations
at the center of history, and every last
white heroic propaganda collapses in dust.

Think about it for a while, if you're not braindead -
how come french resistance, polish resistance, all
belong to history's mainstream fight against tyranny,
yet you still stutter to call the pilgrims as parasites,
british monarchy as brutes, and the vatican as vultures!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The only reason the west makes such a song and dance about antisemitism, is not because it's a human rights issue, but because it's the only narrative where the colonizers emerge as the good guys - but place indigenous populations at the center of history, and every last white heroic propaganda collapses in dust.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“How come french resistance, polish resistance, all belong to history's mainstream fight against tyranny, yet you still stutter to call the pilgrims as parasites, british monarchy as brutes, and the vatican as vultures!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The only minority that has historically caused irreparable damage to the world are the white people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“March of Human (Trisonnet 2556-2558)

When the world feels cold and hollow,
and the clouds won't let you breathe,
awake, arise, and walk the marrow,
you are fire fated to be free.

Every heartbeat, an anthem of love,
every syllable breaks a chain -
you're the thunder you ought to follow,
rise untamed, and history's rearranged.

Every silence holds a scripture,
every wound is a sacred drum -
every time you defy despair,
you teach midnight how to hum.

When the Human speaks, mountains wake,
tired hearts of earth unbreak -
turn the world from ash to flame,
help the broken speak their name.

When the Pilgrim speaks, borders fall,
the migrant soul becomes the all -
in the quake of your cosmic call,
empires misplace their mighty gall.

Write like time's a fragile toy,
like galaxies sit in your palm -
roar with justice, rain with joy,
awaken chaos into calm!

From deserts to the deltas,
from river to the sky,
be the ink of revolution,
that refuses to comply.

Grab history by the collar,
take hate and make it dust -
when you near, tyrants stutter;
lift the planet from the jungle gutter.

When the Heart speaks, the Earth rewrites,
buried stories are restored with rights -
paint the future with your bare hands,
teach the fire how to stand.

When the Human walks, the soil revives,
forgotten streets all come to life -
with every step, with every beat,
Awake, Arise, and Breathe Complete!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“When the Heart speaks, the Earth rewrites, buried stories are restored with rights.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“If your history book, pol-sci book, criminology book, doesn't register the US government as the planet's number one terrorist organization, followed by the british empire, you are studying fake history, fake sociology, fake criminology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Why You Must Speak Your Name
(Naskaristana 2593)

You know why I have to mention my name
over and over, in as many places as I can,
even though the name is not important -
it's because my name represents every people
ever trampled beneath the feet by the
half-educated apes out to spread "civilization" -

my name represents the congolese,
my name represents the palestinians,
my name represents the sikhs,
my name represents the muslims,
my name represents each and every human being
incarcerated for merely existing.

So I say again, the name is not important,
yet you must speak your name,
because every time a human speaks their name,
an ape loses their footing in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The name is not important, yet you must speak your name, because every time a human speaks their name, an ape loses their footing in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“The greatest story ever told is the story never told, the story of countless cultures wiped out of record, just so one cartel could have complete autonomy over the discourse of morality, culture and holiness, all the while being the scourge upon everything moral, cultured and sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Earthright Anthem (Sonnet 2613-2615)

The soil is older than every border,
older than flags and state decree.
Earth is property of no brute empire,
nor promised prize of manifest atrocity.

No badge can baptize brutality,
no holy water can bleach blood stains -
the land remembers the salt of tears
of every people ever slain.

Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.

When erasure becomes ape religion,
mutiny becomes human right.
Stars that burn for others,
wither in body, but live in light.

From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.

Acts of terror by governments
are still terror all the same,
genocide wrapped in diplomacy
is just murder by another name.

Divide and rule, marks the animal,
unite and integrate, makes humankind.
We are stardust come alive -
unbent, unflinching, borderless mind.

Human is the bridge, and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented, on a planet built on loot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Stand and burn the colonial syllabus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“From Palestine to Kashmir to America,
every land shall be humanized,
not by bullets and atom bombs,
but by atomic people against the lies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“When erasure becomes ape religion, mutiny becomes human right.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“No badge can baptize brutality, no holy water can bleach blood stains – the land remembers the salt of tears of every people ever slain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Decolonization Anthem -
Song of The Global South
(Sonnet 2616-2619)

Humanity is mightier than empires of apes,
life is braver than borders of the dead.
No one's undocumented on a planet built on loot,
champions of freedom are champions of truth.

We are children of the Global South,
not a lost cause or subjects of pity,
not tax breaks in a donor's ledger,
nor footnotes in whitewashed history.

Our lands are rich with brains,
our soil is rich with minerals,
our veins pulse with creation,
hearts bright with civilization.

They looted our gold,
then sold us "aid" -
they burnt our libraries,
then sold us "education."

Colonizers were the real cannibals of history,
out to civilize humans with far advanced society -
suffering of the South was not bad luck or destiny,
just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.

Rise, O Peoples of Earth -
Rise till the looters fall.
Roar like Sonnets of Naskar -
Fire the fascists, free the world!

In every culture we carry the cosmos,
in every tongue we carry our home.
Our names are not doormats of empire,
our dust is larger than Greece and Rome.

Own your color, your accent,
own your stories, your theologies,
be proud of your sweat, your stubborn dignity -
for the North wrote itself as civilized,
but we, the Global South, authored humanity.

They told us, history is white,
holiness is western, progress is european -
but the hands that built the world,
with science, medicine, poetry,
philosophy, astronomy and mathematics,
were black, brown and indigenous.

Stand and burn the colonial syllabus,
disown the doctrines built on erasure -
rise and write like blood on fire -
write your anthem, write your future.

Rise, O Children of Earth,
no matter the color or culture,
you have more heart than ape empires,
more soul than parasites and vultures!

Burn the cartels, fire the fascists -
I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Colonizers were the real cannibals of history, out to civilize humans with far advanced society – suffering of the Global South was not bad luck or destiny, just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Decolonization Anthem (Excerpt)

We are children of the Global South,
not a lost cause or subjects of pity,
not tax breaks in a donor’s ledger,
nor footnotes in whitewashed history.

Our lands are rich with brains,
our soil is rich with minerals,
our veins pulse with creation,
hearts bright with civilization.

They looted our gold,
then sold us “aid” –
they burnt our libraries,
then sold us “education.”

Colonizers were the real cannibals of history,
out to civilize humans with far advanced society –
suffering of the South was not bad luck or destiny,
just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“If you grew up with western media, you get brainwashed into asking, why are most terrorists muslim! But grow up and study actual history of the human race, then you start asking, why is every terrorist white!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Center of the World is Indigenous (Sonnet 2680)

Fact of the matter is,
most white scholars eventually
turn out to be just another colonial twit,
no matter how brilliant, how learned they are,
because animal conditioning doesn't wear off
with mere education of the intellect -

your soul must be disinfected of colonial filth,
which is not possible until you intrinsically
embody the pain, indignity, and humiliations
of the oppressed, subjected through generations.

Your opinion on religion, your opinion of reason,
your opinion of philosophy, your opinion of society,
it's all just opinion, that too of a lesser lifeform,
until you outgrow your whiteness and look at
the world through the actual center of the world -
and the center of the world is indigenous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock