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

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

“Jews are not the most dehumanized community in the world, muslims, native americans, and blacks are, yet antisemitism dominates all popular discourse on human rights, because that's the only little narrative where white people emerge as the good guys.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“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

“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

“Truth is a useless term,
nazis call persecution truth,
maga calls fanaticism truth,
zionists call genocide truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“In English we call it Israel,
in Naskarian we call it Sanitarium.

In English we call it Britannia,
in Naskarian we call it Malaria.

In English we call it America,
in Naskarian we call it Terrorism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Unholy Trinity (Sonnet 3109)

You don't need to cook up scandals to smear me,
I can give you all the real scandals you want,
hot out of the Naskar pen, go enjoy:

Churchill was a big fat cannibal,
Columbus was a wanted terrorist -

as far as historic records are concerned,
the religion of violence is christianity,
the government of violence is america,
the kingdom of violence is britain -

every culture has its skeletons,
but the vatican, america, and britain,
these three are the unholy trinity of
planet earth, built on a mountain of skeletons,
as opposed to my brother's sermon on the mount.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“As far as historic records are concerned,
the religion of violence is christianity,
the government of violence is america,
the kingdom of violence is britain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Jewish trauma gets special treatment because of its colonial propaganda value, while "extinction level" Indigenous Holocausts are swept under the carpet, never to become mainstream history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Earthright Song

[Verse 1]
Humanity comes from Africa,
no crown owns a single grain.
If you are not indigenous,
you are an immigrant.

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.

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

[Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no intolerance, no inequality.
Naskar ignites, all humans unite -
our world is our responsibility.

Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
reason is braver than conspiracy.
From the river to the galaxy,
kindness is braver than cruelty.

[Verse 2]
Women are indigenous to their bodies,
Palestinians are native to their home.
Privilege cannot buy righteousness,
nor can blind faith redraw chromosome.

Happiness is not an imperial gift,
Freedom is not a colonial property.
Joy is not a nationalist bequest,
Earth is not a zionist charity.

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

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

[Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no dogma as divinity.
Naskar ignites, and borders collapse -
our world is our responsibility.

Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
hope blooms where a human stands.
Till all of us are free, none of us are free -
we lift the globe with naked hands.

[Bridge]
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.

[Final Chorus]
Awake, Arise, Adopt the World -
tolerate no hate, no inhumanity.
Naskar calls to the champions of choice,
service of humanity is practical divinity.

Till all of us are free,
none of us are free -
heart, brain and backbone,
are the real holy trinity.

[Outro]
Human is the bridge,
and bridge is the truth.
Nobody is undocumented,
on a planet built on loot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Naskar Goes to Earth: Field Notes from A Planet of Apes

“Jews are not the most dehumanized community in the world, muslims, native americans, and blacks are, yet antisemitism dominates all popular discourse on human rights, because that's the only little narrative where white people emerge as the good guys.

There's a universally recognized jewish holocaust remembrance day, and that's great, but I have just one question - where is the native american holocaust remembrance, where is the congo and kenyan holocaust remembrance, where is the palestinian holocaust remembrance, where is the punjab and bengal holocaust remembrance - all of which were far bloodier in scale than nazi follies, why is your history, memory, ethics, all so retarded!”
― Abhijit Naskar

“When Erasure is Religion, Mutiny is Right
(Sonnet 3226/ Song 6)

Pack your brain that does no good,
and pack your hands that cannot help;
boot the chiefs that start a war,
and boot the bros that sell the hate.

Pack your kings that loot the world,
and pack your churches stood on bones,
stole the land then sold the skies,
manufactured famine, fortune poured.

Now go burn white maps and syllabus,
now go break your trance of west,
scrub the whitewash, face the history,
grow the spine of humanness.

When erasure be religion,
mutiny becomes a right,
grab the settler by the collar,
earth is our birthright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“When erasure be religion,
mutiny becomes a right,
grab the settler by the collar,
earth is our birthright.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Better White Guilt than White Privilege
(Sonnet 3222-3223)

If you are white, be extremely cautious,
self-conscious, and absolutely apologetic,
while commenting on people's religion and
culture, and it does not matter whatsoever
whether you're a fundamentalist or rationalist;

because that's exactly how your ancestors
destroyed populations after populations,
not only in the name of god,
but also in the name of rationality.

So whenever you feel the elitist urge
to dismiss other people's culture,
look at your skin first,
if it turns red in the sun,
it's nature's way of telling you to shut up,
you're in no ethical position
to pass judgement on morality and reason.

Do not even open your mouth until
you're properly scrubbed and decolonized -
if you wanna call it white guilt, call it white guilt,
better white guilt than white privilege.

In fact, if you feel guilty for the actions
of your animal ancestors, it's proof that
your bloodline has finally become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“If you feel guilty for the actions of your animal ancestors, it's proof that your bloodline has finally become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“If you are white, be extremely cautious, self-conscious, and absolutely apologetic, while commenting on people's religion and culture, and it does not matter whatsoever whether you're a fundamentalist or rationalist; because that's exactly how your ancestors destroyed populations after populations, not only in the name of god, but also in the name of rationality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Do not even open your mouth until you're properly scrubbed and decolonized - if you wanna call it white guilt, call it white guilt, better white guilt than white privilege.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Free Palestine is the 21st century litmus test of humanity, which will either reveal the human you claim to be, or expose the zionazi that you are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“No Planet for Zionazi
(Sonnet 3244)

When a mayflower full of morons
illegally invaded a living continent,
and declared themselves king,
you were not there.

When a fat white "winnie" the poo,
a lecherous leopold, and
a gringo git columbus, starved, caged,
slaughtered, and erased millions
afters millions, you were not there.

But history is repeating itself right now,
and there is no escaping it this time,
no matter your ethnicity -
on matters of ethnic cleansing
you have only one ethnicity: humanity.

Free Palestine is the 21st century
litmus test of humanity, which will
either reveal the human you claim to be,
or expose the zionazi that you are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“On matters of ethnic cleansing you have only one ethnicity: humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“Lotte, humans can live in only one dimension: the past, the future, or the present. After all, you can be only where your thoughts are. (The Camino)”
― Anya Niewierra