Outside of the Dachau concentration camp there is a sign written in five languages — Hebrew, English, French, German and Russian — saying “never again.” Following the unfathomable horrors of the Holocaust, the world rallied around a new word for a crime that has plagued human history. Following the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the international community, heavy with guilt, vowed “never again” to allow such atrocities to occur.

Sadly, this promise has been broken again and again, whether in Rwanda, Srebrenica or Cambodia. Once again, we are faced with the same evil as in the past, and, tragically, we are once again allowing it to continue.