December 9 is International Genocide Commemoration Day

December 9 marks a new annual day of commemoration to remember victims of genocide and remind all nations of their responsibility to prevent and protect

NEW YORK””A  group of organizations aimed at preventing genocide have welcomed the United Nations General Assembly’s designation of December 9 as the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime.

On September 11 of this year, UN member states unanimously voted to establish this commemorative day and chose December 9 as it is the anniversary of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

“Slaughtering people not for anything they do, but simply for who they are ”“ their national, ethnic, racial, religious, or political identity ”“ is morally as bad as it gets,”