Blair joins Holocaust survivors to remember

Jan 27 2006
ICWales -- The Ntional Website of Wales
By Paul Rowland, Western Mail

TONY BLAIR last night joined survivors of the Holocaust and a host of religious and political dignitaries in Cardiff to mark the 61st anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps.
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Mr Blair, who arrived at the event with his wife Cherie, spoke of the need to "rededicate ourselves to fighting racism and the intolerance of difference".

"Nothing compares to the Holocaust in the intensity of its evil, not in the suffering of a people made to suffer precisely because they were a people, not in the ghastly scope of its inhuman ambition, and not in the combination of an atrocious cause and wicked actions which for a while threatened to engulf our entire world. Here in Europe, home to so much culture, learning and civilisation.
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Shortly after finishing his address, Mr Blair was heckled by a member of the audience protesting at the continuing failure of the British government to address the Armenian genocide of 1915. The protester was jeered by sections of the audience, before leaving voluntarily.
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