Samantha Power Quotes

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided.

What the Serbs are doing is an international crime. What the world is not doing is also an international crime.

We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.

The Bosnian Genocide was something that triggered my consciousness and led to an awakening politically for me.

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur.

Yet, only years after the Nazi-era, millions were sent to their deaths in places such as Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda, and the world once again took too long to act.

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

We brought disaster upon... Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave... We have rendered them dispossessed... We have accustomed them to begging... We have participated in lowering their moral and social level... Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon... men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes...

Governments hesitate to call the horror by its name, for to do so would oblige them to act.

Give the Serbs 48 hours, and if they don't release the hostages, bomb them to hell.

These are not concentration camps, but transient centers …. You are witnessing a great moment in the history of the Serbian nation.

Meanwhile “our” troops during the past month, have been again at their congenial occupation of slaughtering native children and burning villages