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Understanding crimes against humanity

Genocide, terrorism and human rights violations are perpetrated when there is a lack of veneration for the individual.

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Photo by: Max Ernst "The Horde"
In the third book of his philosophical romance, The New Gods, the French writer E.M. Cioran writes, "With the exception of some aberrant cases, man does not incline to the good; what god would impel him to do so?" Whether or not the good is a great, unreal force or one that exists only as a ghost of the possible, there is still one certainty: From the beginning, from that primal moment when the swerve toward evil first occurred, humankind has been the author of progressively unspeakable crimes. 

These include genocide, terrorism, and crimes against humanity.

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