Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Time Heals.

How much time has to pass before it becomes acceptable to honour mass murderers? I'm wondering because of this story here:
A festival has begun in Mongolia to honour the nation's most famous emperor, warrior Genghis Khan.
I admit emotionally I don't feel revolted by this in the way that I do when I see some slack jawed socialist wearing a Mao t-shirt or when neo-nazi's march to celebrate Hitler's birthday. However judging by the number of deaths he is responsible for, he was a monster on the same scale as those two. If the Russians, Chinese, Iranians etc have no objection there isn't any harm but it is a little bit disturbing to think that when survivors of the Holocaust die off someone like Hitler might undergo some kind of rehabilitation in the public eye.

2 comments:

  1. Of course many seem to have no problem in glorifying IRA murderers and they didn't wait for their victims (those that the IRA didn't manage to kill) to die

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