To the Editor,
December 1, 2010
In response to the letter by Prof Neiman to your newspaper casting doubt on Iran’s nuclear program and genocidal intentions, we refer the author to the Responsibility to Prevent Petition, prepared by Professor Irwin Cotler, Member of the Canadian Parliament, posted by Genocide Prevention Now on the following website and link
http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/2010/10/irwin-cotler-renewed-call-to-action.html
http://www.genocidepreventionnow.org/2010/10/irwin-cotler-renewed-call-to-action.html
This petition martials the voluminous data on Iran’s suppression of human rights inside Iran –more than 120,000 executions, as well as stonings, public hangings, persecution of dissidents ,and members of non-Islam faiths, Ahmadinejad’s repeated use of motifs taken directly from Hitler’s Mein Kampf to incite to genocide, Iran’s support for terror throughout the Mideast, and its illegal pursuit of nuclearization. Abundant additional information comes from the International Atomic Energy Commission, US State Department and Congressional reports on human rights abuses, US House of Representatives Resolution HConRes21 2007 (which called for indictment of Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide) and the blog website www.genocidepreventionnow.org, which has published a timeline of all of Ahmadinejad’s statements and those of his predecessors and associates going back many years.
The well-meaning author of the letter equates her ignorance of the evidence with absence of evidence. The same lethal error was made by many well meaning appeasers back in the 1930s.
Best wishes
Professor Elihu D Richter MD MPH
Hebrew University-Hadassah Jerusalem and GenocidePreventionNow
Jerusalem Israel